{"id":3279,"date":"2020-02-26T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T21:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexauthors.com\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:25:03","slug":"book-covers-that-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexauthors.com\/book-covers-that-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"Training #309 &#8211; Book Covers That Sell with Dan Van Oss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not spending the time to create an irresistible book cover for your Kindle or print book, then you're missing out on a lot of clicks and sales.<\/p>\n<p>That's because your book cover is the very first thing that people see when they find you on the shelves of a big box store or in the virtual shelves of Amazon in a bestseller category or some sort of keyword search related to your book. And it's your first (<em>and sometimes your only!<\/em>) opportunity to make a great first impression with your book cover design and get folks actually clicking through and buying your book.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Van Oss has been in personal and commercial digital design for over 20 years. He's the founder of CoverMint, which has designed over 1000 indie author covers to date. He's also the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Click-Cover-Insiders-Guide-Design-ebook\/dp\/B07Z9K73SM\/ref=sr_1_1?tag=jjfast-20&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One-Click Cover: The Insider's Guide to Book Cover Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this training, Dan talks about the importance of having a quality book cover and the differences between effective and ineffective covers, and how to tell the difference when you are communicating with your cover designer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rcp_restricted\">\n    <div class=\"signup-box d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-xl-start flex-wrap flex-xl-nowrap align-items-start text-center text-xl-left\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/apexauthors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Apex-Authors-Logo-Square.png\" alt=\"\" \/>      <div class=\"content\">\n        <h2 class=\"heading\">This is for Apex Authors<\/h2>        <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/apexauthors.com\/signup\" target=\"_blank\">JOIN NOW FOR FREE<\/a>        <div class=\"copy\"><p>Apex Authors is the premier online community of modern independent publishers in the world. Become an Apex Author today and get access to all of our training and archives, as well as our proprietary software tools to help you publish and sell your books!<\/p>\n<p>Already an Apex Author? <a href=\"https:\/\/apexauthors.com\/login\/\">Click here to sign in.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not spending the time to create an irresistible book cover for your Kindle or print book, then you&#8217;re missing out on a&#8230; <a class=\"btn btn-secondary read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/apexauthors.com\/book-covers-that-sell\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3070,"featured_media":3285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[645,1],"tags":[100,743,746,747,745,744],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Training #309 - Book Covers That Sell with Dan Van Oss - Apex Authors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you are not spending the time to create an irresistible book cover for your Kindle or print book, then you\u2019re missing out on a lot of clicks and sales.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apexauthors.com\/book-covers-that-sell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Training #309 - Book Covers That Sell with Dan Van Oss - Apex Authors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you are not spending the time to create an irresistible book cover for your Kindle or print book, then you\u2019re missing out on a lot of clicks and sales.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/apexauthors.com\/book-covers-that-sell\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Apex Authors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-26T21:47:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-01T14:25:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/apexauthors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/apex-authors-2020-02-26_mp4.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1017\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Blaine Moore\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Blaine Moore\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"43 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/apexauthors.com\/book-covers-that-sell\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/apexauthors.com\/book-covers-that-sell\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Blaine Moore\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/apexauthors.com\/#\/schema\/person\/695fd287bcdbda0bc70367f3248c90ef\"},\"headline\":\"Training #309 &#8211; 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