If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” –Sir Ken Robinson

I’ve just started using Canva for designing Book Covers and Twitter posts and I think it is excellent!

I can’t remember how I found it. I think I either saw a tweet or they followed me or something. Anyway, I had cover design in the back of my mind which prompted me to have a look, and I’m really pleased that I did. It’s a free app that I’ve put on my iPad, it’s really intuitive to use and it’s got loads of different stuff you can do. The first thing I did was a Twitter post to advertise my short story published in an anthology:

And once I’d done one it was easy to adapt it to create new ones:

The next thing I tried out was Book covers, some of which I have already posted. Here’s the latest one:

You can also use templates for blog posts, Facebook posts, Instagram etc. As well as your own custom design. For the book cover I was able to choose the size in pixels that is the exact size of a standard paperback.

Support is good too. There is a website, a blog and I get emails which actually contain useful info about design and how to use it grow blog traffic etc.

All in all it is well worth a go.