Adventures in Self-Publishing, Chapter 7: Designing the Cover of your Book

If your publishing progress has been keeping step with this series, you’ve now not only got the text of book all ready to go, but you’ve decided on how you’re going to bring it to market (POD, Google eBooks, or whatever) as well. So your next set of tasks revolves around this question: what would you like your masterpiece to look like?
There are two main parts to this step: coming up with the cover design, and laying out the interior design. Those are both big topics, so this week we’ll tackle cover design, and turn to interiors next time around.

So how do you go about coming up with covers that you can be proud of? Note that I say “covers,” because you’ll need up to three, depending on how many formats you want to bring to market. They are:

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