How to Animate Your Book Cover
Thanks to AI, adding a little spice is straightforward.
As I've said hundreds of times, writing is easy. Marketing is hard. The Author Flywheel is not a short course.
Anyone who tells you they've cracked the code on marketing their nonfiction book is lying. Even rock stars don't move the same number of copies they once did.
Enter AI
AI represents the very definition of a double-edged sword. Yeah, there's plenty of slop, but new tech also makes it easy to generate infographics and other marketing assets. For instance, you needn't be a proper graphic designer to animate the cover and the first few pages of your book.
Here's the animated cover and excerpt from my 2014 book The Visual Organization:
Hey, the kids might dig it on TikTok, right? Stranger things have happened.
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