Q&A with Shari Richardson discussion

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Hi! I was wondering if you did your cover art for Mourning Sun yourself and what software you used? The cover is great by the way!

I purchased the photo from a stock photo company and then used the cover creator from Createspace to to the rest. :)

Sounds very simple! I like that. ;)

hi! Hope all is well with your writing! I have a question for you about createspace. I have been looking around on there and I am trying to figure out how many pages my book will be. I know how many pages are in th ms but won't that be different when formatted down into a 6X9 paperback? My designer for my cover can't start until he can calculate the spine width which we have to know the exact page number of the book for.

The only way to know is to upload the interior of the book. It will tell you the number of pages then. It may even give you the dimensions for the cover (I think it adjusts the template for your own design cover to account for spine width).

Okay! Thank you for the advice!