For an indie book to sell, the cover is key. Thankfully, authors have more ways than ever to give their books polished, good-looking covers.

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DIY Stash Book For All Your Secret Stuff. By Sarah Lipoff. ... Select a hard cover book that's at least three inches thick, so an old text book or novel you've already read works.

DIY: Comic Book Cover The Walking Dead (Image: A. Bodden) Step 3: Paint it. On this piece, I used a black-and-white motif based on preference, so I only used ink and gray marker to paint it.

Slide the paper cover on so that book cover is inside the folds. How to make a paper bag textbook cover: Fold the edges to get proper length and fold the paper over the front cover, and then the back.

Next, Olsen advises checking out some online resources like The Book Cover Archive, The Casual Optimist, FaceOut Books, and Design Observer's 50 Books/50 Covers for more ideas.