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If you’ve looked at my covers you may notice that I love special effects, texture, 3D letters, gloss, shine and sparkle. Normally, all that stuff is bad – because even stuff like drop [...]

Welcome to Creativindie, a home for indie writers, artists, and any one else committed to achieving financial freedom through creative production. I’m glad you’re here. Creativindie (pronounced [...]

Book cover design is changing. Recently, especially among top book cover designers, there is almost a “minimalistic” competition to see who can do more with less. But how little is [...]

Self-publishing is hard work, and expensive. With the costs of writing, editing and formatting text, aspiring authors are probably feeling pretty broke by the time they start thinking about their [...]

What’s the purpose of your book? Why are your writing it, and who do you expect to read it? Recently I’ve met several authors who don’t plan to pay for a book cover, because [...]

Do you have something in mind for your book cover that can’t be achieved with stock images and photo manipulation? Are you looking for an original, hand-drawn sketch or painting to work [...]

  You did such a marvelous job for me on covers of three novels … how can I thank you? If you were in the States I could send you a nice bottle of Champagne (depending on the state!) [...]

Sometimes excellent books need a “facelift” – a more professionally designed book cover to update their image and make them more competitive in their field. If you already have [...]