This time of year, basketball fans everywhere are picking their favorite team to win the big championship. I couldn’t let them have all the fun so I’ve created an alternative to March Madness®. It’s the first annual ExpertAuthor411 Book Cover Madness Challenge! Yes folks, we will be judging a book by its cover.

Since I work with authors who write books that educate or inspire, I picked the challengers from a random list of Amazon bestsellers in the business and money or self-help categories. The books were all published in 2017.

How it works:

The Challenge runs from March 14, 2018 to March 30, 2018 when the winner will be crowned. We start with a bracket of 16 challengers. In each round, challengers will go head to head. A recap of each match up will be posted on this page and the winners will move on to the next round.

Winners will be chosen based on book cover design principles. Decision of the judges is final, however, just like in basketball, enthusiastic fans can influence the outcome by voting for their favorites on the Expertpreneur Facebook page.

A preview of the cover challengers are shown below. Click on a thumbnail to see the full cover. You can download a bracket sheet  to see the match ups and follow along with the challenge.