Good evening and Happy Columbus Day!
This week we are celebrating-”What you should get for your self-published dollars”
Hopefully, after this weeks series, you will be a lot wiser in how you should spend your self-publishing dollars.
Today’s topic-Book Cover Templates!
I hate templates! I hate templates! I hate templates! Okay, I feel better now! No, I don’t! I hate templates!
The other day, I had a potential client approach me with a book cover sample that a publishing company had sent her. They wanted her to choose one of the templates to use as the cover for her book. When I took a look at the samples, I was floored. It was a template of a screensaver that I have on my laptop. (which by the way I got this year) I went and showed her and needless to say she was also pretty floored. She was about to spend hundreds, even thousands do dollars on a screen saver book cover.
Screensaver Templates are the tip of the iceberg, as some of these self-publishing companies use Microsoft Word Templates. Yes, you heard me correctly-Microsoft Word Templates! There are actual companies that sell Microsoft Word Templates to both publishing companies and authors. They sell it to self-publishing companies who get them for cheap and sell them to you for a lot of money as part of their publishing package.
Most self-publishing companies have no desire to hire a graphic designer or a graphics team. Or, they give....to read the rest go to: www.zlspublishing.com/blog


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