Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Why does KDP hate me and my ability to design book covers?

Oh, CreateSpace, how I wish you would come back!!! I miss you Cover Creator.  I cannot make a cover that doesn't get kicked out of KDP repeatedly to save my life. I download templates, re-download templates, pray to the gods... nothing seems to matter. My cover gets past the initial proof stage. It looks great. then I get the dreaded email from KDP stating my cover doesn't fit how it's supposed to.

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I am ready to pull my hair out and not sure how to fix it going forward. Now I know why I'm happy to have some traditionally published work. Someone else can deal with this headache.

So here's to hoping for some good luck!
Stay paranormally weird!
Penny

1 comment:

  1. Sometime, we'll have to visit about making covers. I'm not a graphic artist, and I don't have any fancy software, but with a little playing around, I can get my covers to fit after one try. I post it once, let KDP tell me exactly what size they want, and then I post it again and it fits. :D Maybe one of these days I'll post some instructions on my blog at faroth.idahowordman.com.

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