Book Cover Jacket Art for Self-Publishers ~ Info about Print-on-Demand Book Publishing

Milkweed Graphics provides tips and selected links for print-on-demand (POD) authors.

Can anyone self-publish? Yes! No matter how long or short, simple or serious your book is, you can have a bound copy in hand in just days. The costs? If you do the formatting yourself, publishing the book is free - yes, free - and copies of your book are surprisingly inexpensive.

Once you've written your book, upload it to www.lulu.com, format it using their automatic formatter software (or upload a .pdf file with your own custom formatting), select some cover art, and you're published! Order as many (or as few) copies as you like. It's free, easy and exciting! We've 'published' our kid's stories and had a couple of copies printed. The thrill of holding one's own published work in hand is hard to describe, but very easy to imagine.

Preserve your Family history - memoir - "Our Year 2000" photos and mementos - anniversary commemorative gifts - poetry collections - your humorous or literary novel - your non-fiction book - all can be published in very little time, with no cost and only a little extra effort. You can view published works by authors like you at Lulu.com to see pricing, but remember that the prices you see there include an author-selected markup. You can even make money with your book!

You'll want attractive book cover art. Lulu offers a free gallery of jacket art for immediate use. Lulu's auto-title feature adds title text and author name text, and back cover and spine text.

We have a Lulu storefront offering free and inexpensive book cover art for use with Lulu's auto-title feature. You can use our high quality images as is, or download them into your own computer, add your own title text using image software (e.g. Photoshop Elements), and upload the final book cover image file into your Lulu book project. We include custom color codes with each cover description to help you choose text colors.

You may decide to use custom book cover art that reflects your book's quality and theme. Milkweed Graphics offers custom book cover jacket art for those that want a custom cover that reflects the quality of their book. Custom cover art can communicate a great deal about your book's content. Have a look at our gallery, linked below, and help yourself to the self-publishing tips provided there. Have fun with your project!