Using Affinity Publisher and Affinity Photo you will be able to create stunning book covers in no time. Good design principles are followed, and you will rapidly see just how attention to detail builds the impact of your cover.

Whatever your book title is, you can design and publish your own book cover for your eBook or Paperback using Affinity Publisher. What's more, you can use it to actually publish your own ebook! By exporting to PDF, your book becomes available to a wide range of publication platforms.

But this course is concerned with creating your own book cover, following all the good design principles needed. Right there, step by step.

When you think of what it is that makes people stop and pick up your book, either from the bookshelf or the online store, you will soon realise that it's your Cover - and only your cover that has caught their eye.

The cover of a book works as a salesman to its audience, and the cover needs to be recognized as an important tool – not just to service its original purpose, which is to protect and bind the pages of a book.

Because a book's cover is its face, it generates expectation. If a reader sees an amateur cover on a book, they will expect the novel itself to be amateur.