Book Bolt Cover Designer - (Create A Cover That Sells)

About this video

The creator demonstrates Book Bolt’s Cover Designer, starting with niche cover research before designing. Using Amazon in incognito for ‘service dog training logbook,’ he shows how autocomplete reveals long-tail terms and buyer cues such as pink, purple, flowers or dogs on a cover, helping identify the target audience. He then scans competing covers — patterns, flowers and dogs recur — and checks BSR/reviews with tools he names including Book Bolt and Helium 10, noting one example at about one million BSR with five reviews. In Book Bolt he selects trim size, paper colour and page count — for the example: 6 by 9, white paper and 150 pages — explaining page count changes the cover template/spine size, e.g. 500 pages differs from 150. He uploads a golden retriever puppy illustration, applies grid repeat to make a pattern, adds a rectangular badge, adds ‘Golden Retriever Logbook’ text, changes colours and downloads the ready PDF for KDP. A second example uses a sunset resource image with a ‘Dog Training Logbook’ badge. He stresses he is not a designer and outsources a lot, and praises Book Bolt as web-based so it will not crash an older computer like Photoshop did for him.

Key takeaways

• Research covers first: Amazon autocomplete for your niche can reveal colours/elements buyers search for, like pink, flowers or dogs
• Study top covers and BSR in the niche to see what patterns and styles are already selling before designing
• In Book Bolt, set trim size, paper colour and exact page count first — e.g. 6x9, white, 150 pages — because page count changes the template
• Simple winning formula shown: turn one uploaded illustration into a grid-repeat pattern, add a badge shape, and put the book title in the badge
• Book Bolt exports the cover as the PDF needed for KDP and is web-based, avoiding heavy desktop software

Episode details: published June 19, 2020 · 16:16 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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