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    Business Fire Your Cover Designer with Terri Main

    As an indie writer, you're responsible for every aspect of publishing your book, including cover design. Outsourcing can be costly and limit creative control. In this workshop, we'll teach you how to take charge of your book cover with simple, free online tools. No graphic design classes needed...
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    Business Ridiculously Simple Self-Publishing Series with Terri Main

    Workshop #1: February 27 - March 12, 2023 You can spend anywhere from $100 to $1000 just having your book formatted for upload to Kindle. What these “professionals” won’t tell you is that you can do this yourself for free in about 15-30 minutes. For eBooks, all you need is a simple docx file...
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    Business Professional Cover Design for Writers with Terri Main

    Back in the day, when books were sold primarily through bookstores, most people saw only the spine of the book until they took it off the shelf. A fortunate few got their books featured “face out in shelves at the end of the aisles or on book tables. Today, with online book sales being the...
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    Business Creating Professional E-Book Covers Using Free Online Tools with Terri Main

    One of the jobs many indie publishers farm out is cover design. Certainly, the most visible marketing tool today is your cover. During the days of physical bookstores all people saw of most books were the spines of the book. But today with online stores, every book is "face front." However, you...
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    Book Cover Artists For the Muse Design

    From their Website: For the Muse Design creates affordable designs with the authors vision as the stepping stone to something creative and beautiful. Feel free to browse the site and see what Award-winning designer Elaina Lee has been up to. For the Muse may be just what you've been looking...
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    Book Cover Artists Drop Dead Designs

    From their website: People decide within the first two seconds of seeing your book cover, whether they will read it or not. You must have a unique and eye-catching book cover that stands out from the rest. The great news is, this does not have to cost you a fortune! Are you a new author looking...
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    Book Cover Artists Cosmic Letterz

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    Book Cover Artists Patrick Sipperly: Book Cover Design/ Video Productions

    From their website: The best book cover design is one that attracts readers to buy the book, without misleading them. Something eye-catching and relevant to the story. Cool book covers won't embarrass the reader if they're reading the book in public. They'll be glad to show it off! We aren't...
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    Book Cover Artists Jeffrey Kosh Graphics

    From their website: I ’m a graphic designer working mainly on book covers, movie posters, logos, merchandising art, DVD boxes, and advertising. Being a published author myself, I know how much a good cover can influence a reader to buy a book, so I do my best to find out the right image for my...
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    Book Cover Artists Studioenp

    From their website: Stunning cover art that doesn’t cost the earth. Our book covers are unique in that we never sell the same cover twice. Coveted by authors around the world, our award-winning covers will give you the edge over your competition. Studioenp is a creative studio formed in 2017 by...