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    Book Brush Cover Creator Primer: A KRP Technical Guide, #1
    Book Brush Cover Creator Primer: A KRP Technical Guide, #1
    Book Brush Cover Creator Primer: A KRP Technical Guide, #1
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    Book Brush Cover Creator Primer: A KRP Technical Guide, #1

    By Blaze Ward

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    About this ebook

    The easiest way to create professional ads and social media images for your books just created the easiest way to create covers for your ebooks, print, and audio, too.

    Cover Creator, from Book Brush, puts all the tools in your hands now. Throw in quality art from reputable sites for cheap and the future is bright.

    This book walks you through the process of understanding your branding, sourcing your art, and then making beautiful covers.

    While saving you a whole bunch of money

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    From the authors of the Business for Breakfast books, KRP Technical Guides help you with changing technology, putting the power of the future to work for you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKnotted Road Press
    Release dateFeb 2, 2020
    ISBN9781644701287
    Book Brush Cover Creator Primer: A KRP Technical Guide, #1
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    Blaze Ward

    Blaze Ward writes science fiction in the Alexandria Station universe (Jessica Keller, The Science Officer,  The Story Road, etc.) as well as several other science fiction universes, such as Star Dragon, the Dominion, and more. He also writes odd bits of high fantasy with swords and orcs. In addition, he is the Editor and Publisher of Boundary Shock Quarterly Magazine. You can find out more at his website www.blazeward.com, as well as Facebook, Goodreads, and other places. Blaze's works are available as ebooks, paper, and audio, and can be found at a variety of online vendors. His newsletter comes out regularly, and you can also follow his blog on his website. He really enjoys interacting with fans, and looks forward to any and all questions—even ones about his books!

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      Book Brush Cover Creator Primer - Blaze Ward

      Book Brush Cover Creator Primer

      Book Brush Cover Creator Primer

      A Knotted Road Press Technical Manual

      Blaze Ward

      Knotted Road Press

      Contents

      What Is Cover Creator?

      Understand Your Genre

      Understanding Your Brands

      Acquiring Art

      Selecting Art

      Your Book Brush Account

      Getting to Work

      Other Tools

      Afterword

      About the Author

      Also by Blaze Ward

      About Knotted Road Press

      What Is Cover Creator?

      Kinda My Fault

      At the 2109 Novelists, Inc. (NINC) conference in St. Pete Beach, Florida, I went to a panel on Book Brush, in my job as Marketing Troll for Knotted Road Press, Inc. (KRP). I had been learning about how to do better ads, and this was a graphical tool designed to make it easy for the average writer to do pretty ads all by themselves.

      Book Brush was a revelation.

      As an example, Corey was fifteen minutes into his presentation when somebody in the back of the room interrupted and asked if Corey was going to have a coupon code for buyers at NINC, because that guy was already sold on the product, and was currently on the webpage to purchase, with credit card in hand.

      Yeah, like that.

      After the presentation, I walked up to Corey and introduced myself, asking if they had anything that would make it easy for them to do book covers, which are a different size and need from ads. Because I always have them in hand, I gave him one of my business cards with Auberon’s cover on the front and the blurb on the back. He told me that they didn’t have anything like that, but said that it sounded interesting.

      Okay, no problem.

      About a week later I got an email from Corey asking if I was interested in consulting with them to do a Cover Brush kind of tool, once he and his partners had a chance to think about it and realized that they were leaving money on the table. How many of you pay expensive cover artists dearly for your covers? (I cheated, and married Fabulous Publisher Babe™ so I get fantastic covers.)

      Corey set me up with an account and I started working with the tool as it existed then. In 2020, my goal was to start direct-selling ebook

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