The Idiot Learns How To Use Canva Correctly

I honestly thought that Canva's book cover templates were static except for being able to change the fake title and author name to real ones. That was always my issue with using its templates; that I rarely found an image I liked.

Well, guess what? You can change the image! Now, normal intelligent people probably already figured that out; not me. My big problem with creating my own covers using a blank Canva template was that none of their available fonts are bookworthy. They're not the same as those on professionally designed covers. I always wished I could create a cover with one of the fonts from its pre-made templates.

It seems I can. All one has to do is upload an image (or find one from the gallery), hover that image above the one on the template and voila! Replacement done!

In my quest to conform to genre standards, I didn't only look at cover images on Amazon's best seller pages, but the fonts used for those covers. Surprise! (not surprised) ~ the fonts conform as well. Is there some secret women's fiction authors' club, where they all get together and compare notes? Decide among themselves which font they'll all use for their books? 

So, when considering various Canva templates, I ignored the cover images and only homed in on the fonts. My image fills the entire cover anyway. I created five different covers (with five different fonts), downloaded them, then compared them side by side until I settled on the one I liked best. I could have made ten or twenty different covers, but too many choices only leads to over-thinking. And I refuse to second guess myself. I, in fact, deleted the four covers I passed over from my hard drive so I wouldn't be tempted to change my mind. (Sure, they're still on my Canva homepage, but...)

Now I think I have the book cover issue settled, which means I can move on to the hardest part ~ writing the blurb, the biggest pain in the ass of all. But I have no excuse now for stalling.

I'm truly dreading it.