5 incredible book covers that will inspire you to create your own

<p style="text-align: left;">When you write over 500 life stories, you learn quite a lot about life. That wisdom is captured in an incredible way through the quotes our customers have chosen to feature on the back covers of their books. <span style="background-color: transparent;">Have a look at these amazing covers and 'blurbs'. What quote would you choose for your own back cover?</span><span style="text-align: center; background-color: transparent;"> </span></p>

<center><strong style="font-size: 36px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Olden B. "Jay" Johnson</span></strong></center><center><strong style="text-align: left;">Navigating Through the C's of Life</strong></center><center></center><center><em style="text-align: left;"> </em></center><img src="https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3921157/Jay Johnson.jpg" alt="Jay Johnson" width="350" align="center" style="font-size: inherit; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: -webkit-standard; width: 350px; max-width: 300px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;"><center></center><center></center><center></center><center></center><center></center><center></center><center></center><br><center><em style="text-align: left;">"Let’s be frank: no one says to someone they want to encourage, “Be average!” Nor should they. Throughout <span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">history, people the world over are told and retold stories of the greats that have gone above and beyond, challenging the status quo along the way, and as a result, have made a tremendous difference. And while there’s no one-size- fits-all model for how to go big, it is also true that you won’t get there by striving t</span></em><em style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">o be average or settling for the bare minimum. You have to reach higher. </span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">You have to go big or go home!"</span></em></center><center><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"></span></center><center><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"></span></center><center><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"></span></center><center><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"></span></center><center><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></center><center><span style="font-size: 36px; font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Jo Davey</span></center><center><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Life is an Adventure, Not a List</span></center><br><center><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"></span></center><center><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"></span></center><center><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"></span></center><center><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"></span></center><center><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"></span></center><img src="https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3921157/jo davey.jpg" alt="jo davey" width="350" align="center" style="width: 350px; max-width: 300px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;"><br><center></center><center></center><center></center><center></center><center></center><center></center><center></center><center><em style="text-align: left;">"When I was young, the attitude to life was “Get on with it” and I try. </em></center><center><em style="text-align: left;">I live by the motto, “Do unto others as you <span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">would have them do unto you,” and I feel very strongly about equality – especially equal work for equal pay, because for </span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">years I didn’t get it. </span></em></center><center><em style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">I also try not to be good!</span></em><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> "</span><span style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent;"> </span></center><center><span style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent;"></span></center><center><span style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent;"></span></center><center><span style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent;"></span></center><center><span style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent;"></span></center><center><span style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent;"></span></center><center><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"></span></center><center><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"></span></center><center><br><strong style="font-size: 36px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">German Lam</span></strong></center><center><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left; background-color: transparent;">The Dragon Turns </span><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left; background-color: transparent;">to Water</span></center><br><center><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left; background-color: transparent;"></span></center><center><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left; background-color: transparent;"></span></center><center><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left; background-color: transparent;"></span></center><img src="https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3921157/German Lam.jpg" alt="German Lam" width="350" align="center" style="width: 350px; max-width: 300px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;"></div>

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<div style="max-width: 600px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: center;"><em style="text-align: left;">"<span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">I was born in the Chinese year of the dragon. Dragons are fierce and hard; they are the king of the Chinese Astrological signs. </span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">But you cannot be a dragon all of the time. Sometimes you have to be soft and flow like fluid. To know when to be which is the key to my own personal philosophy called the freestyle lifestyle.</span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent;">"</span> </em></div>

<div style="max-width: 600px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent;"><strong style="font-size: 36px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Haroon Omar Mahdi</span></strong></span></div>

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<div style="max-width: 600px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: center;"><em style="text-align: left;"><em style="text-align: left;">"<span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">A friend came to pick me up and drive me to his place in Islamabad, where I would have to go into hiding until my family </span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">worked out how to get me out of the country. </span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">There was no time to say goodbye to my family properly, or to collect up my precious medical books. I stuffed a couple of items of clothing into a bag and left the house. </span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">From now on I was on my own, and I was running for my life." </span></em></em></div>

<div style="max-width: 600px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 36px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Robert James</span></strong><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></div>

<div style="max-width: 600px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: center;"><strong style="text-align: left;">The American Success Story of a Technically Cockney Lad</strong></div>

<div style="max-width: 600px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: center;"><em style="text-align: left;"> <em style="text-align: left;">"<span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">In 1990, when I was 65, I retired from full-time work and had no real idea of what I was going to do other than enjoy myself and spend more time with my children. </span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">When </span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">I retired from the packaging business, I had operations in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, and four factories in the U.S. But even though I retired, I started four more companies, one of which was very successful. It is important to me to keep my brain active, no matter what age I am. If you don’t keep the mind going ...well, I do </span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">not want to find out what would happen.</span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent;">"</span></em><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent;"> </span></em></div>

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<div style="max-width: 600px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: center;"><strong>A Boy's Journey</strong></div>

<div style="max-width: 600px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; text-align: center;"><em style="text-align: left;"> <em style="text-align: left;">"<span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">In 1990, when I was 65, I retired from full-time work and had no real idea of what I was going to do other than enjoy myself and spend more time with my children. </span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">When </span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">I retired from the packaging business, I had operations in the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, and four factories in the U.S. But even though I retired, I started four more companies, one of which was very successful. It is important to me to keep my brain active, no matter what age I am. If you don’t keep the mind going ...well, I do </span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">not want to find out what would happen.</span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent;">"</span></em><span style="color: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left; background-color: transparent;"> </span></em></div>

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