S T Mastroianni

Creating Artwork For Book Covers S T Mastroianni

You leveraged you language skills and wrote a book. You want to use a self-publishing platform so that you can minimize costs. One such platform is Amazon's CreateSpace for print books and the associated Kindle Direct Publishing for eBook distribution. Cost to publish can be zero, giving you an easy entry into the published world, if you do all the document preparation yourself. You used a text capture tool such as Microsoft Word for the book's interior file and can probably easily get to a 'camera-ready' document with little or no external help for error checking and editing. Creating the cover art is a little more daunting, usually for lack of access to adequate tools and skills needed to provide a finished file acceptable to the publisher. This book is for you. If you have access to Microsoft PowerPoint, usually available through Microsoft's Office suite, then you can use this book to teach yourself how to create the cover art without incurring costs for professional help.