How To Create Your Own Free Book Cover In MS Word

Most publishing experts will warn you against making your own book cover, with good reason: the cover design is too crucial an element to self-publishing success to take lightly.


Making your book a bestseller is hard enough without an ugly cover sabotaging your efforts.


However there are many reasons why you may be tempted to give it a shot anyway:

• You want to play with cover ideas so you know what you want before hiring a designer

• You want more control over your cover design

• You’re launching a small project, a short ebook or guide, and you don’t want to invest too much

• You’re writing a series and don’t want to pay full price for each cover design


So I’d like to share with you something I’ve been working on for a few months: the secrets of designing a bestselling book cover in Microsoft Word, and then I’ll give you some easy-to-use Word templates so you can get started quickly.


This will be a ‘crash course’ in the minimal skills you need to create a winning cover in MS Word


You’ll learn how to use Word to blend images, add layers and transparency, use font effects and space letters (kerning), strip background, and the general principles of cover design.