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    The # 1 Killer Secret To Producing Free Professional Ebook Covers
    The # 1 Killer Secret To Producing Free Professional Ebook Covers
    The # 1 Killer Secret To Producing Free Professional Ebook Covers
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    The # 1 Killer Secret To Producing Free Professional Ebook Covers

    By R. Paul Stevens

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    If you are or want to be a Kindle Author in some ways writing, editing and proofing your book is the least of your worries. Yes, it’s that blasted cover that is the thorn in your side. Sure you can recruit third parties to do it for you, but that is going to cost you precious $$$. As I’ve remarked in my Proofreading killer guide, I’m determined to bootstrap myself up the Kindle ladder. I’ve made some minor investments in buying images for $5 and I’ve bought a few Kindle How To books, but that’s it, and I’m showing a substantial profit on my investments, looking at it from a business point of view. But until now I too have struggled with this issue of a professional looking cover. They say you don’t judge a book by its cover but unfortunately that’s exactly what happens here in the Kindle world. I’ve tried my own hand at them and they all come out looking unprofessional or even worse, awful. But now I’ve invented an amazingly easy way to create professional covers IN MINUTES and FOR NOTHING once you have familiarized yourself with a few procedures.
    Of course you can buy kindle books of 100 or 200 pages or more or you can read this 900 word article and get to it without further ado! Well I know what I would do! There is going to be many many a time you are going to thank me for this, trust me!

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. Paul Stevens
    Release dateAug 4, 2013
    ISBN9781301113071
    The # 1 Killer Secret To Producing Free Professional Ebook Covers
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    R. Paul Stevens

    There is a favorite line from my novella Dinner Party For Eight in which Angela asks Harry:“What do you think I am?”Harry considered this for a moment. What was she actually?“Well I suppose you are a very beautiful cook.”So if I have to answer the same question what am I actually? I would also need to consider this for a moment. I would like to say I’m an ex astronaut, have more degrees than a thermometer, have competed in the Tour de France without any EPO, surfed Teahupoo in Tahiti and emerged unscathed, sailed round the world, am an ace Alpine skier, am a member of Mensa, have a beauty queen wife and gorgeous kids, and started my own corporation which has listed on NASDAQ. I could go on but like Arnold Schwarzenegger I don’t want to boast.Well to be honest, I have gone some of the way towards all those things. I do have a letter from Wernher von Braun, I do have three degrees in Physics, I have flown in a jet plane (Emirates Air), I do cycle the mega steep hills here where I live but unfortunately can’t get EPO anywhere, I am a keen surfer who has almost managed to break his neck, I am an ocean going skipper and I did own my own yacht though if it was me I wouldn’t sail with me as captain, I do ski but you need to get out of the way, I do have a beautiful wife (though her agreeing to marry me has to be my biggest piece of luck ever) and two great kids, I do have my own software business but no stock exchanges alas and I would like to take the Mensa test but I’m pretty sure I would fail and then I wouldn’t be able to live with that so I would rather rationalize. I live in that sapphire city – Cape Town.

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      The # 1 Killer Secret To Producing Free Professional Ebook Covers - R. Paul Stevens

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      The # 1 Killer Secret To Producing Free Professional Ebook Covers

      - The Technique - Also by this Author

      Introduction

      If you are or want to be a Kindle Author in some ways writing, editing and proofing your book is the least of your worries. Yes, it’s that blasted cover that is the thorn in your side. Sure you can recruit third parties to do it for you, but that is going to cost you precious $$$. As I’ve remarked in my Proofreading killer guide, I’m determined to bootstrap myself up the Kindle ladder. I’ve made some minor investments in buying images for $5 and I’ve bought a few Kindle How To books, but that’s it, and I’m

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