SUBJECT: Having Your Ebook Ghostwritten Lesson 35 of 50: How To Get A Cover

Hi {!firstname_fix},

There are a couple ways to get great cover art
for your eBook. The first is to create it
yourself. This is the most time-consuming of the
options.

Hardest - do it yourself

To make your own cover, use your favorite
drawing, painting or graphics software. Draw a
rectangle. Add a book spine and pages to give
your rectangle three dimensions to look like a
closed or partially open book. Fill your drawing
with interesting colors or patterns. Add your
title and author byline to the front and spine.
Embellish and revise ad nauseum. 

If you're wondering which graphics program to
use, there are many to choose from. Some standard
office programs provide the ability to create
graphics, including MS Word. More flexible, but
more complicated graphics software you could use
just as well includes Macromedia Fireworks,
CorelDraw, or Adobe Photoshop. Professional cover
art designers and graphics artists tend to use
the pure, flexible, more complex, programs for
their work. 

Developing your cover from scratch is do-able,
and even you could do it if you were so inclined.
But I don't recommend the do-it-yourself
approach. This is because, if you're short on
software skills, artistic talent, or time or if
you would rather focus your energies elsewhere,
then there are more efficient ways to get cover
art. 

A couple shortcuts

Shortcuts to the build-it-from-scratch approach
include using templates or using eBook cover art
software. Templates are available for purchase on
the Internet, and some sites even offer free
basic templates if you will link back to their
site. Buying or borrowing templates will still
require you to add your own text and additional
graphic elements, so you'll still be investing
some time, just a little less time than drawing
each line of the picture from absolute zero. 

I've listed some web sites where you can get free
templates in the online resources chapter. Again,
most free template sites will ask for a link
displayed in your eBook. 

If you're interested in outsourcing your ebook
creation, check out this offer below:

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