May 10th and 11th: So here we are. I’m still revising the inside, checking for errors, and marking up the sample copy with my red ink pens. I’ve read all of POD People and have begin looking into Jeremy’s suggestions for book cover help. Jeremy suggests a program called Gimp. I downloaded it for free and began toying around with it, but I didn’t find any options that were better than what I could do with Paint. I decided to keep trying. Jeremy offers book cover design on his website. For POD, his price ranges from $700 to $850 dollars. I emailed him but have not received a response, but then I started having second thoughts. Determined to do this myself, I quickly talked myself out of spending that much money for someone’s help and began Googling other options.
I came across a highly recommended site called Book Cover Pro. Has anyone else used this? It’s amazing! It even comes with templates where you just add the text, images, and choose colors. Done! It’s $167.00 dollars to download it to your desktop. I guess I stimulated the economy a bit more, because I decided to buy it. Called Mom to wish her a Happy Mother’s Day while the download was taking place, and by 7pm Sunday night I was playing around with full wrap-around book covers.
Total investment in this POD project so far: $212.35
