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I came up with a couple dozen concepts for Music City Dirt by Blake Eccles. We needed a bold and simple, minimalist book cover that we could extend into a series. Some of these I like but they [...]

Ty Gray submitted this book cover for a review and critique. The memoir, “23 Days,” is a book with the theme of persistence, hope, and redemption. It’s about a police career. [...]

After finishing a recent project, the author read an article  by Natasha Fondren about optimum size specifications for amazon kindle, bn, nook, ibookstore and ipad formats. Based on the advice of [...]

I’ve been working on a book cover design for a sci-fi/alien themed book cover – basic concept: a 13 year old girl helps a human-looking alien boy to escape, being chased by [...]

Cover Title: Bloodroom Author: Naima Haviland Genre: It’s in the range of Paranormal Romance, Dark Fantasy, and Urban Fantasy. Bloodroom is the first book in a small collection of vampire [...]

Extinction Point is a new novel by author Paul Jones: The central character (Emily) needs to ride her bike out of New York during a strange red rain: A very brief synopsis of Extinction Point [...]

Today I’m reviewing Lois Nicholls “Aussie, Actually.”  First impressions: I like it! I like the font and placement, I like the simple white with drop shadow. The subtitle [...]

You can probably tell a lot about a book cover designer by the book covers that they like. So here are a few of my favorite book covers, in a variety of genres. These appeal to me for different [...]

If you’re self publishing a novel or non-fiction book, you may get stuck on what to list as your publisher or imprint. Although this issue is largely avoided if you go the ebook-only route, [...]

I’ve been working on the very interesting “What is Paleo” – an introduction to the Paleo diet (basically, don’t eat anything that wasn’t around in prehistoric [...]