Book Cover Design

A book cover has one commercial job: persuade the right reader to stop and look closer, first as a tiny thumbnail on a phone, then as a spine on a shelf. This course teaches the craft behind covers that work: how genre conventions signal the promise to a reader in under a second, how to compose at thumbnail scale before full size, how to set title typography and choose or licence imagery, and how to build correct print files with bleed, spine, and CMYK. You work in InDesign, Photoshop, and Affinity, study real comp-title conventions, and finish able to take a manuscript brief all the way to a retail-ready front cover, full wraparound jacket, and Kindle-ready e-book file.