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The second wife of Arjuna that nobody remembers

I have been reading the complete translation of The Mahabharata done by Kisari Mohan Ganguli and I have discovered that during Arjuna's exile in the forest (resulting from his breaking a vow to never see one of his brothers sitting alone with their co-wife Draupadi) he acquired a second wife that I had never heard of before. The complete story is below:

"Vaisampayana said, 'Then the son of the wielder of the thunderbolt narrated everything unto those Brahmanas (residing with him there), set out for the breast of Himavat. Arriving at the spot called Agastyavata, he next went to Vasishtha's peak. Thence the son of Kunti proceeded to the peak of Bhrigu. Purifying himself with ablutions and other rites there, that foremost of the Kurus gave away unto Brahmanas many thousands of cows and many houses. Thence that best of men proceeded to the sacred asylum called Hiranyavindu. Performing his ablutions there, that foremost of the sons of Pandu saw many holy regions. Descending from those heights that chief of men, O Bharata, accompanied by the Brahmanas, journeyed towards the east, desiring to behold the regions that lay in that direction. That foremost one of Kuru's race saw many regions of sacred waters one after another. And beholding in the forest of Naimisha the delightful river Utpalini (full of lotuses) and the Nanda and the Apara Nanda, the far-famed Kausiki, and the mighty rivers Gaya and Ganga, and all the regions of sacred water, he purified himself, O Bharata, (with the usual rites), and gave away many cows unto Brahmanas. Whatever regions of sacred waters and whatever other holy palaces there were in Vanga and Kalinga, Arjuna visited all of them. Seeing them all and performing proper ceremonies, he gave away much wealth. Then, O Bharata, all those Brahmanas following the son of Pandu, bade him farewell at the
gate of the kingdom of Kalinga and desisted from proceeding with him any further. The brave Dhananjaya, the son of Kunti, obtaining their leave, went towards the ocean, accompanied by only a few attendants. Crossing the country of the Kalingas, the mighty one proceeded, seeing on his way diverse countries and sacred spots and diverse delightful mansions and houses. Beholding the Mahendra mountain adorned with the ascetics (residing there), he went to Manipura, proceeding slowly along the sea-shore. Beholding all the sacred waters and other holy places in that province, the strong-armed son of Pandu at last went, O king, to the virtuous Chitravahana, the ruler of Manipura. The king of Manipura had a daughter of great beauty named Chitrangada. And it so happened that Arjuna beheld her in her father's palace roving at pleasure. Beholding the handsome daughter of Chitravahana, Arjuna desired to possess her. Going unto the king (her father), he represented unto him what he sought. He said. 'Give away unto me thy daughter, O king! I am an illustrious Kshatriya's son.' Hearing this, the king asked him, 'Whose son art thou?' Arjuna replied, 'I am Dhananjaya, the son of Pandu and Kunti.' The king, hearing this, spoke unto him these words in sweet accents, 'There was in our race a king of the name of Prabhanjana, who was childless. To obtain a child, he underwent severe ascetic penances. By his severe asceticism, O Partha, he gratified that god of gods, Mahadeva, the husband of Uma, that supreme Lord holding (the mighty bow called) Pinaka. The illustrious
Lord granted him the boon that each successive descendant of his race should have one child only. In consequence of that boon only one child is born unto every successive descendant of this race. All my ancestors (one after another) had each a male child. I, however, have only a daughter to perpetuate my race. But, O bull amongst men, I ever look upon this daughter of mine as my son. O bull of Bharata's race, I have duly made her a Putrika. Therefore, one amongst the sons that may be begotten upon her by thee, O Bharata, shall be the perpetuator of my race. That son is the dower for which I may give away my daughter. O son of Pandu, if them choosest, thou canst take her upon this understanding.' Hearing these words of the king, Arjuna accepted them all, saying, 'So be it.' Taking Chitravahana's daughter (as his wife), the son of Kunti resided in that city for three years. When Chitrangada at last gave birth to a son, Arjuna embraced that handsome princess affectionately. And taking leave of the king (her father), he set out on his wanderings again.'"

Arjuna leaves his new wife behind to visit sacred places and assists some Apsaras who had been cursed to become crocodiles to break their curse:

"Vaisampayana continued, 'Then, O monarch, that foremost of the Pandavas, endued with great prowess, cheerfully delivered all of them from that curse. Rising from the waters they all regained their own forms. Those Apsaras then, O king, all looked as before. Freeing those sacred waters (from the danger for which they had been notorious), and giving the Apsaras leave to go where they chose, Arjuna became desirous of once more beholding Chitrangada. He, therefore, proceeded towards the city of Manipura. Arrived there, he beheld on the throne the son he had begotten upon Chitrangada, and who was called by the name of Vabhruvahana. Seeing Chitrangada once more, Arjuna proceeded, O monarch, towards the spot called Gokarna.'"

Arjuna then meets up with Krishna, goes to His city of Dwaraka, sees Krishna's sister Subhadra and desires her. At Krishna's suggestion, Arjuna kidnaps Subhadra for purposes of marriage and returns to his brothers with Subhadra in tow and Chitrangada apparently forgotten.

Neither Chitrangada nor her son is ever mentioned again, but other minor characters also named Chitrangada do appear.

The Sharknado Principle

I have had no real success selling books, especially novels. Having said that, I do have some ideas on self-published fiction writing which I'd like to share.

My idea is this: nobody deliberately buys self-published novels. You can sell them for 99 cents or you can give them away for free, but nobody deliberately goes looking for novels by authors they've never heard of.

One suggestion I'd make to anyone who is thinking about writing a novel is to sign up for Amazon Book Gorilla. This is an email you get every day offering free or reduced price books in the categories you select, many of them self-published. Read the descriptions of the books. You will get this email every single day, and very quickly you will see that there are a lot of authors writing the same books, and a very small number doing something really unique.

You can get many of these books for free, and in no time at all your Kindle will fill up with stuff that you'll never get around to reading. Life is just too short. You'll feel like somebody working at a publishing house assigned to go through the slush pile, except nobody is paying you to do it.

It isn't so much that these people can't write (you need to get a certain number of good reviews on Amazon before you can pay to list your book on Book Gorilla) but that you feel like you know everything about the book before you even start reading it.

The great science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein once said that he felt his greatest competition was not other authors, but beer. He imagined his readers asking themselves if they would rather spend the money on his book or spend the same amount of money on beer.

As a self-published author you cannot think of your competition as other self-published authors. You are competing with every author out there, living and dead, plus beer.

Take heart, though. If you are a NetFlix subscriber you can choose to watch from a lot of movies each month, including Academy Award winners and recognized classics with really big stars. In spite of that, many people each month choose to watch Sharknado.

I have not seen that movie and don't intend to watch it, but I can understand why somebody would choose that. The premise is so goofy it makes you want to check it out. It promises a viewing experience that nothing else can give you.

Back when people first started buying televisions in the 1950's the movie studios had to figure out how to compete with television. The big studios made epics that needed a really big screen and the low budget operators like Roger Corman made movies targeted to teenagers. Now every movie is made for teenagers but back then none of the big studios did that.

As a self published author I feel more like Corman. Nobody knows who I am, so the only thing I've got to sell is the story. I have to give the reader an experience he can't get from an established writer, and the reader needs to know that just by reading the book description. I have to give him Sharknado.

A blast from the past, by Howard Rheingold

The Savage Report: 1994 by Howard Rheingold

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book and its sequel (The War Of The Gurus) are genuine guilty pleasures. If 1974 (the year the book came out) had kept going for another twenty years then 1994 could well have been like what Rheingold describes here. His heroes are investigative reporters for a TV broadcast followed by billions of people and which has the power to topple governments. (It is actually called a "holocast" because it is a 3D broadcast). The main hero is more like James Bond than what we would think of as an investigative reporter today. In his world uncovering the truth could get you killed, but he's ready and able to shoot back.

This book is not great art, but it does have an interesting vision of what we thought the future might be like. We don't have Jack Anderson and The Savage Report today. All we have are Fox News, bloggers, and The Daily Show.

I am pretty certain that if there had been more than two books in this series I would have bought them.



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On reading the King James Version

The Holy Bible: King James Version by Anonymous

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I bought this at Barnes and Noble for twenty dollars. It has a lot of illustrations by Gustave Dore, and the print is reasonably sized. Costco has the same book with a somewhat less attractive cover for fifteen dollars.

If you've ever wanted to read the Bible from front to back this is a good one to get. The illustrations are excellent and there are a lot of them. There is a good introduction which explains who King James was and how the translation came to be. I am not particularly religious but I find the book worth reading. It contains a lot of stuff they never taught you in Sunday school and that you'll never hear in church, but which is important to give context to the stuff they do tell you about.

My rating is for this particular edition and does not reflect my opinion of the book itself. It is pointless to judge this book by the same standard you would use for Nicholas Sparks or Phillip K. Dick. It was written by many hands and some parts are more interesting than others.





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Create Space distribution options

One of the decisions you'll need to make if you publish your book on Create Space is whether to opt for Expanded Distribution. Create Space now lets you opt for this for free now (it used to cost $20 or so). If you do opt for this, your book can be available on websites other than Amazon.com and can also be sold in brick and mortar bookstores. What's not to like?

As it turns out, plenty.

I have opted for Expanded Distribution for a couple of my Create Space books. One book was a public domain title that I was re-issuing and I thought it might be something that could be used in university courses on Hinduism. Expanded distribution, I thought, might make it easier to sell to that market.

The first thing I found out was that expanded distribution increases the minimum price you can charge for your book. This minimum price is for all channels, not just the expanded ones. So if you give your book a realistic price you'll get hardly any royalty from your expanded distribution sales and ALL of your customers will pay more for the book.

Did I say ALL your customers? Well, not quite all. Your expanded distribution customers will pay the price you set, but your Amazon customers will pay a discounted price, plus they might get free shipping. So there isn't much reason for anyone to buy your book from anyone but Amazon, and even if they do you'll get hardly any royalties. You'd be better off pricing your book cheaper and only selling it through Amazon.

What about brick and mortar book stores? Well, what about them? Have you seen any lately? They're a dying breed. And even if they were thriving print on demand books don't work with their business model. Self published books don't either. So basically you might get your book sold at the Barnes and Noble website in addition to Amazon, but Amazon will sell it cheaper. Always.

There is another option for distribution you might consider, which is to have your own e-bookstore. Create Space will give you this for free. Here's one of mine:

https://www.createspace.com/4299888

Now having this doesn't make your book pricier. On the contrary, if you only had this you could make your book a couple of bucks cheaper and make the same royalty you would selling it on Amazon. You would just lose all the sales you'd get if you offered the book on Amazon. Plus you'd have to actually get people to find your store.

Good luck with that.

You can of course have your Store and Amazon too. Just don't expect to sell much through your Store, and don't spend a lot of money putting it together. I did one for my Create Space books using Google Sites, which is free:

https://sites.google.com/site/bhaktaj...

I frankly did this only for my own amusement.

Strangely enough, I have sold more of this book I put in Expanded Distribution through the expanded channel than I have through Amazon.

I sold 8 or 9 copies, total, and made 40 cents on each sale. Since I paid twenty bucks for expanded distribution (again, it's free now) I didn't break even. Public domain Hindu scriptures aren't hot sellers, I guess.

Now if you're already pricing your book several dollars over the minimum price expanded distribution can't hurt. Amazon will still be the cheapest place to buy your book, and you'll get a larger royalty for those sales than from the expanded sales, but whatever sales you get that way aren't costing you anything.

There are probably situations where selling books only through your own Create Space eStore makes sense, but I can't think of any.

Create Space introduced another option recently, which is to get a matte book cover instead of a glossy book cover. I like my glossy covers, so I don't plan to use this. But it's nice to have options.

More About Page Styles

So we need to set up some page styles. When you create an empty document in Libre Office it gives you the following page styles:

Default
Endnote
Envelope
First Page
Footnote
HTML
Index
Landscape
Left Page
Right Page

Default is what you will use for most pages in your book. It will have the following features:

A page header, possibly containing the title of the book on the left hand pages and the current chapter name and number on the right hand pages. Both will be centered, in the same font as the body text, and in italics. (There are other possibilities of course, but that's what I use).

A page footer, most likely with the page number, centered, same font as body text, no decoration. It is possible to put more stuff here, like "Page 1 of 250" and the revision date, but for a self published book you probably would not. If you're writing the sort of book that has pages with the words, "This page is intentionally blank" on them you can consider putting more stuff than a page number in the footer.

The page number will be in Arabic numerals (1,2,3, etc.) If you're ghost writing a book for Bill O'Reilly or Glenn Beck try to keep him from finding out they're called that, and why.

Mirrored pages. In other words, the fat margin is always the inner margin in the printed book.

Note that while there are styles for Left Pages and Right Pages we won't use them and I'm not even sure what they're doing. You just set your Default page style to Mirrored and it will take care of the rest.

This takes care of most of your pages. What other pages styles might you need?

You need a style for the Title Page and Verso. The Verso is the back side of the title page. It will have copyright information, ISBN numbers (possibly) and any disclaimers (this book is a work of fiction...). For this page you want it Mirrored with NO header and NO footer.

You can define a new page style for this, but I tend to use Index for this purpose since my books generally don't have an index. Defining a new page style is no big deal though.

Front Matter. If your book has a Table of Contents, or a preface or introduction you'll probably want a page style for this. It will look much like the Default, but it will have page numbering in lower case Roman numerals (i, ii, iii, iv, etc.).

First Page. This generally means the first page of a new chapter. These pages generally do not have page headings, otherwise they are similar to the Default.

So set up these styles using the instructions that came with your word processor.

Now that we've mentioned page numbering a couple of times you may be wondering how you get page numbering to start with page 1 on the first page rather than starting on the title page. You're probably also wondering how you get the front matter page numbering working. The answer is with Paragraph Styles, NOT page styles.

In Libre Office you can set up a Paragraph Style for Heading 1. On the Tab called Text Flow you'll see a section called "Breaks". In this section you'll tell Libre Office that every time somebody sets a paragraph to the Heading 1 style you want to do a page break before the paragraph and use a Page Style of First Page with a Page Number of 0. Doing this, then setting your chapter titles to this style, will start all of your chapters on a new page and the pages won't have headings.

While you're defining this Paragraph Style use the "Indents And Spacing" tab to indent the text 1" above the paragraph. That way your chapter headings will start 1" below the top of the page.

However, the page numbers will still be wrong. When we set Page Number of 0 above that tells the word processor to continue numbering the pages as they have been numbered. We cannot set the Page Number to 1 in the Style, otherwise every chapter in the book will restart numbering at page 1. For this we need to select the actual chapter title for the first chapter and set the paragraph format, not the style, so that only that particular paragraph resets the page numbering to 1.

You might look at the Default paragraph style too. One thing you might be tempted to do is to set the Alignment to Justified. This is where both the left and right margins are a straight line and the spacing between words is adjusted to make that happen. You see that in a lot of published books, possibly MOST of them, but it makes the book harder to read. Try it if you want to.

There are no styles for title pages. Generally you want to use the same font for the title on the title page that you used on the cover, but without the benefit of a drop shadow. Generally everything on the title page is centered. Title pages and chapter headings are the place for fancy fonts, so use 'em if you got 'em.

For the body text you'll want a serif font. Times New Roman for most, Liberation serif for us Linux users. 12 points is a good size for easy reading.

Next time we'll discuss making covers for Create Space books. Stay tuned.

Page Styles And Paragraph Styles For Create Space

If you're just a casual word processor user you may have never used styles, but for formatting a book they're absolutely necessary. Let's assume you have a manuscript in some word processor format. You may have made your chapter headings bold, centered, and used a larger font. Wrong! Instead, go through your document and change every chapter heading to have a style of Heading 1. In the upper left corner of your word processor window is a drop-down that assigns paragraph styles. By default it might say "Paragraph" or "Text Body" or even "Default", but if you expand the pulldown you'll see a entries for "Heading 1", "Heading 2", etc. "Heading 1" is for chapter headings and "Header 2" is for subheadings. (Fiction often just has chapter headings, but non-fiction will have subheadings and even sub subheadings). So give every heading and subheading the style it needs. Don't worry about what it makes them look like. You'll fix that later. What you're trying to do is impose a structure on your text.

Why? Well, for one thing, if the word processor knows where your chapter headings are it can create a Table Of Contents for you automatically. It will also help you greatly when you make an ebook out of your manuscript.

The second thing you need to do is figure out what page size your book should have. Create Space recommends 6" x 9" for most books, and I do too. It is a good size for novels, memoirs, and anything else you might want to put in a beach bag.

I do use other sizes. Under my real name I write books for children and teachers and those use a 7.44" x 9.69" page size. There are a variety of pages sizes Create Space offers, so look over the choices and pick one.

Next figure out your margins. If the book is under 500 pages or so you can use an inner margin of .88 inches. For longer books they require a one inch inner margin (or "gutter" as the pros call it). So from the Format menu pick Styles And Formatting, then choose the Default page style and change the Page properties as follows:

Width: 6 inches
Height: 9 inches
Inner margin: 0.88"
Outer: 0.5"
Top: 0.4"
Bottom: 0.3"

Turn on headers and footers while you're in there. This should give you a good idea of how many pages your book will be. Page count (but not page size) determines the cost of your book.

Do you have want color illustrations in your book? You might want to rethink that. Color pages cost four times as much as black and white pages, and if you have one color illustration in the whole book every interior page will be charged at the color rate. Not only that, but color interior pages don't look that great. I did one book with all color pages, a photo on every page, and the interior pages looked muddy.

On the other hand, color illustrations on the cover look terrific. So by all means use color on your cover, but avoid it for your interior.

Now fool around with the style for Heading 1. You can change the font size and every chapter heading will get the new font size. You can change the spacing so that the heading starts one inch down from the previous paragraph. You can use a fancy display font, like I suggested you use for the cover. You'd never want to use anything but Times New Roman (or Liberation Serif if you're a Linux user) for your body text, but jazzing up the chapter headings works nicely.

Study the documentation on styles for your word processor. The docs for Libre Office are here:

https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/S...

The next post will discuss page styles. For now just experiment with getting your page size, margins, chapter headings, and body text looking the way you want. Then we'll add pages styles for the Title Page and Verso, Table Of Contents, and Chapter First Pages and get the pages so that the right pages have the gutter on the left and the left pages have the gutter on the right. We'll also see that the pages are properly numbered.

Stay tuned.

Format Your Own Create Space Interior And Save $350

There are many reasons to have a book on Create Space, but if you're an unknown author seeking an audience making money probably isn't one of them. Getting someone to take a chance on a 99 cent e-book is a lot easier than getting them to buy a fifteen dollar trade paperback, and your royalty for both might be the same amount. Having said that, you might want to have a trade paperback available anyway. If nothing else you can buy them up at the author price and give them away to friends and relatives.

So if you want to have your book on Create Space you probably want to do it as cheaply as possible. You still want it to look like a professional did the work, but you don't want to pay the professional. If you do the work yourself publishing a book on Create Space costs very little. Basically setup is free and you just pay for proof copies of your book.

You want your interior pages to look good. Create Space offers a free Word template you can use as a starting point, or you can hire one of their formatting pros for various rates:

https://www.createspace.com/Products/...

The simplest option costs $349. If you want anything fancier than that you might need a professional (and expensive software), but you can do the simple layout yourself with nothing more than a word processor and some free fonts.

The word Processor I recommend is Open Office (or its variant Libre Office):

https://www.libreoffice.org/

This is a free word processor comparable to Word. If you already own Word you could use that but ever since Microsoft introduced Ribbon Menus I have found MS Word to be more trouble to use than it's worth. Libre Office and Open Office have a built in feature to generate a PDF, which is what you're going to submit to Create Space.

Libre Office can read Word files, including the template Create Space offers as a sample. I used that template for my first Create Space book but I think it's too fancy to use as is so I recommend taking your existing manuscript, making a backup copy, and then messing around with styles until you have something suitably formatted. You can of course use the template to get ideas of what is possible.

Your book probably has the following page types:

Title Page and Verso
Table Of Contents
Chapter Start
Default
Index

You also might have the following paragraph types:

Chapter Heading
Subheading
Body Text
Footnote
Title (for title page)
Author (for title page)

You have to create a style for each page type and paragraph type in your book.

How to do that? Stay tuned.

Editing Kisari Mohan Ganguli

I'm going to take a break from giving away book formatting secrets and talk about something else: editing another author's work to make it easier to read. Specifically, Kisari Mohan Ganguli's translation of the Mahabharata.

Why edit it? Consider the following sentences:

And he soon covered the entire welkin with clusters of blood-drinking arrows. And as the (infinite) rays of the powerful sun, entering a small vessel, are contracted within it for want of space, so the countless shafts of Arjuna could not find space for their expansion even within the vast welkin.

And the monarch, on beholding that damsel, became surprised, and his raptures produced instant horripilation.

O thou of the prowess of the first of elephants, when Dyu was shown that cow, he began to admire her several qualities and addressing his wife, said, 'O black-eyed girl of fair thighs, this excellent cow belongeth to that Rishi whose is this delightful asylum. O slender-waisted one, that mortal who drinketh the sweet milk of this cow remaineth in unchanged youth for ten thousand years.'

Clearly some room for improvement. But consider another attempt to make language easier to understand:

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

...and the improved version:

Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me! I will teach you how to catch people instead of fish."

or how about:

Jesus said to them, "Come with me. I'll make a new kind of fisherman out of you. I'll show you how to catch men and women instead of perch and bass."

I haven't been able to find it online, but in church I remember hearing it something like this:

Up until now you caught fish, but I'll teach you to catch men.

I imagined the disciples singing "It's Raining Men, Hallelujah!" after hearing that. But maybe that's just me.

The point I'm making is that if you clean up Ganguli's language you need to draw a line somewhere. Replacing a word here and there is OK. Rewriting a whole sentence is not. Ganguli should still sound like Ganguli.

So what I have done is the following:

1). Replace variant spellings with regular spellings. "Despatched" becomes "dispatched".
"Practise" becomes "practice".

2). Change obscure words to normal words. "Welkin" means no more and no less than "sky". "Horripliated" means to have goosebumps. That one takes a bit more work to replace. "Hath" is replaced with "has".

3). "Eth" words are replaced with plurals.

So we get:

O thou of the prowess of the first of elephants, when Dyu was shown that cow, he began to admire her several qualities and addressing his wife, said, 'O black-eyed girl of fair thighs, this excellent cow belongs to that Rishi whose is this delightful asylum. O slender-waisted one, that mortal who drinks the sweet milk of this cow remains in unchanged youth for ten thousand years.'

And he soon covered the entire sky with clusters of blood-drinking arrows. And as the (infinite) rays of the powerful sun, entering a small vessel, are contracted within it for want of space, so the countless shafts of Arjuna could not find space for their expansion even within the vast sky.

And the monarch, on beholding that damsel, became surprised, and his raptures produced instant goosebumps.

I do not go as far as J.A.B. van Buitenen did in his own translation, where he replaced the word "kshatriya" with "baron". While that is essentially accurate, you lose layers of meaning by doing that. Ganguli leaves the word untranslated and so do I.

Cleaning Up Art From Old Books

If you've followed the steps so far you have some photos of nice art on yellowing pages. Fixing this is like touching up old photographs, and you need a tool for that job. Photo Shop is NOT that tool.

The GIMP is that tool.

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)(I'm not crazy about the name either) is a free program that does everything Photo Shop does and probably more.

GIMP has a variety of filters available. One of the most useful is the White Balance filter. This automatically identifies the parts of your image that should be white, then adjusts the color so they are white. It adjusts every color in the picture the same way and the same amount. The effect of this filter is magic. It's like a fountain of youth for your old photos (color photos fade over time) and it works equally well on page images.

To get The Gimp go here:

http://www.gimp.org/

The White Balance Filter is found in the Colors menu under Auto.

archive.org has special equipment for photographing book pages that generally does a good job of keeping the pages aligned properly, but sometimes you get a crooked page. GIMP can help here too. In the Layer menu under the Transform menu is an option Arbitrary Rotation... This lets you rotate your image a few degrees in either direction until the page image is vertically aligned. You can use the edge of the rotation dialog as a guide to know when the image is vertical.

This is only the beginning of what GIMP can do. Not only can you make an old photo look new, you can make a new photo look old. Look under Filters, in the various sub menus, to see all the special effects you can do to your photos. The Old Photo filter could be useful for a cover for a western or a private eye novel set in the 30's.

It takes practice to get good with GIMP, but the results are worth it.

Using these techniques you should be able to make a decent cover image for an e-book. But suppose you want to publish a printed volume using Create Space? What then?

Stay tuned.