: Re: How do I create a book cover for my self-published book for under 0? I'm a self-published author, I write non-fiction. I would like my book to have a reasonably good cover and stand out

@Gloria285

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I think there a few different paths you may go here.

One way would be to try to find an illustrator who'd sell you the work of his own to be used as book cover. You can do this on sites like IllustrationMundo, DirectoryOfIllustration (beware, lots of agents instead of actual designers on this website) and HireAnIllustrator. It may be pretty difficult to find relevant works there, because those sites allow to search by illustrators, but not keywords that might be relevant to your book.

Another way is to try to craft one yourself with numerous software available. Just type in "make book cover" in Google and you'll be enlightened with tons of cheap-looking software packages promising you super skills in designing a book cover.

Finally, there are stock images websites where you can purchase an image to be used as a book cover. The most notable and closest to the book industry is Get Book Cover, which sells fine-quality illustration and photography works as book covers, allows keywords search and claims to have an in-browser editor to put title and author credits on the cover, as well as convert it to various formats for digital and print use.

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