Gorgeous cover art by Marcia Dye for my next kindle release, Curious Governess, Dangerous Lord, which will be a re-release of my The People's Friend pocket novel, Lord Winterton's Secret :) Ulverscroft will also be releasing the large print version of Lord Winterton's Secret in September.
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| Illustration by David Young |
Last month, I released the paperback version of my historical short story collection, The Wherryman’s Daughter. Just as I felt with my romance novel, The Bride Who Rode In With The Storm (published by Satin Romance), everything feels worth it when I finally get to hold the physical version in my hands.
The Wherryman’s Daughter is a self-published effort. It
wouldn’t look half as good without the gorgeous cover art by Marcia Dye. While I was sharing the
work in progress on Twitter, I was asked the steps on how to prep a cover. I
decided to do a blog post on how I did my paperback cover for Amazon, along
with what went right and wrong.
Blogger sometimes affects uploaded image quality, so if
anything looks blurry, just click on the image and it will show it at its
original size!
My final paperback version of The Wherryman’s Daughter ended up being 6x9 inches with 294 pages as I wanted it to be a large print version. Originally, I planned on it being a smaller book, the following screenshots show this, but the steps still apply whatever size you decide on. The photo editing software used is Corel Paintshop Pro X6.
