Every ebook 'how to' guide tells you to get the cover done professionally. People buy books based on their first impression of the cover. Jeremy Clarkson once wrote that all his books - and he reads a lot, apparently - have cover pictures of fighter planes or submarine...

Exciting times - the book, or more accurately, the ebook, is starting to take shape. All the writing is now done, a cover has been thought up and commissioned (the amazing Joe Watson, at www.joewatsonillustration.com is the brains behind that ), and I'm in touch with a...