I love regularly reading tips and advice articles in certain subjects — particularly writing and publishing. I don’t always need the information right then, but I know that it’ll eventually come in handy. Or at least, I hope it will.

I know there are a lot of other people out there who feel the same way I do, but sometimes it can be difficult to find every useful advice article that’s out there. So I thought I’d bring you a few. Here are the tips and advice articles that jumped out at me the most over the past week.

1. Top 7 Resources to Design Your Own Book Cover, from Reedsy: Book covers have a lot of influence over how people view your book–and not just visually. While it’s recommended that you hire a designer to develop your cover, if you do need to design the cover yourself, Reedsy has some resources for you to utilize. Excerpt: “Cover designer Ninai Freitas urges authors to think of book covers as long-term investment: “It is better to have a well-designed book cover that can help increase sales. Good book covers shouldn’t be an afterthought — they are necessary to publishing success.””