Hey Revenue Writer,
Look at that first cover.
It’s fine. It’s not embarrassing. But it’s not stopping anyone mid-scroll either.
Now look at the second one.
Bold yellow background. Vibrant woman. Red circle popping. Script title that actually reads on a thumbnail. That’s a cover people click.
Here’s the kicker — we built both of them. Live. In under an hour.
Colette came to the Quick Book Cover Workshop with a Bible study book called Squeeze the Word and a cover that looked like a thousand other self-published books. Good concept. Lame execution. The kind of cover where you know, you just know, it was made in Canva by someone who isn’t a designer.
By the end of the workshop, she had a cover that stood next to bestsellers.
Her words, not mine: “Nobody would imagine that’s what we started from.”
That’s the goal. Every time.
The cover’s job isn’t to be pretty. It’s to stop someone in three seconds on a thumbnail-sized bookshelf called Amazon and make them click. That’s it. And most self-published covers fail that test before the book even gets a chance.
We ran Colette’s final cover through the thumbnail test, the click test, and the three-second test. It passed all three.
If you want to see exactly how we got there — the method, the tool I built to speed up the process, and the live Canva build from ugly to awesome — the replay is up now.
Watch it before it comes down.
— Chris
P.S. The method is called QUICK. Five steps. One to two hours max. And you don’t need to be a designer. I was an insurance adjuster for 15 years. I figured it out. You can too.




To celebrate this honour I am going to set up my pre-order on Amazon.😄