Kate McVaugh's Blog - Posts Tagged "create-space"

Back in 2009, after searching around quite a bit, I found that I could publish Murder, Jaz, & Tel Aviv, for a reasonable price using BookSurge, which would later become Create Space. In 2011, I used them again for The Curse Breaker of Cairo.
I had another book or two ready for press, but simply could not afford the price to publish in paperback. And then Amazon KDP came along and I was saved. At least my books would be available in ebook form.
I have received monthly newsletters from Create Space for years. Often, they carried useful articles about self publishing and stories about other independent authors. So how is that until less than a week ago, I had not realized that one could now publish a paperback edition for free?
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I am on a very limited budget. I need a new cover for Broadsided in Bali


After many hours of searching for how to produce a book cover, and even more time playing with Word, I came up with the following two covers.

Whether or not they will work when I try them with on the CreateSpace cover creator thingy, remains to be seen.

I prefer the 2nd example I made. To me, it beats my current cover hands down. That might not be saying too much.

All feedback is appreciated.