Wasting time stressing about wasting time

I just spent most of Saturday afternoon vacillating between creating a new e-book cover and telling myself I don’t need to make a new e-book cover—I need a professional one. The latter won out. I want to do things right, so that means I need to hire someone who knows what they’re doing, not someone who got a Canva subscription a month ago. This decision was a long time coming, and way too much worrying on my part.

When I first published Beyond the Paladin Door in June, I didn’t bother with any m...