Making a Margaret Atwood Book Cover

Tutorial: Making A Margaret Atwood Cover in 20 Minutes

February 26, 2018Posted inGraphic Design, TutorialNo Comments

I was looking at book covers online, as one does, and saw Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last. The colors are quite catching, and I wondered if I could recreate a similar cover. Here is the result of that, with step-by-step instructions. You will notice right off the bat that in my two-minute Google search I couldn’t find a free for use photo of a couple like the one that Atwood’s book designer used. So, instead, I used a vector graphic. I think it makes my version of the cover look a bit more like a young adult novel (hence my faux-title).

A Poet Promotional Image

Tutorial: Creating Ebook Promotional Images for Free

February 25, 2018Posted inGraphic Design, Tutorial1 Comment

So you have your cover, and it looks amazing. But your book has been out for a little and isn’t selling that well. How do you give it a face lift? One way you can be successful at this is through using clean promotional images (like the one above). This post will teach you some basic graphic design tutorials, so you can make your own high quality promotional and marketing material.

This is useful for ALL authors, from traditionally published to self-published, because people/fans/readers (especially on social media) do care about aesthetics, and showing your book off in an attractive way can help it sell.