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Anatomy of a cover

Techniques for making DIY book covers

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Simon K Jones
Feb 21, 2022
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I’m not a designer, but in some ways I thought that might make this more useful to other indie authors - especially if you’re just starting out and don’t have massive budgets to splash on covers.

Following from last week’s exploration of titles, covers and blurbs, I thought it’d be fun to dive a little deeper into how the covers for my books were created.

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