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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips
Posted April 29, 2012

How to make your own Advanced Review Copy (ARC) Cover for Pre-Publication Reviews (Free templates to download!)

If you want to send your book out to major reviewers, you need to send them an Advance Review Copy (ARC), aka “Advanced Uncorrected Galley”, at least 3 months (but preferably six [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips
Posted April 28, 2012

How much should I pay for book cover design services?

When I started designing covers, I charged a few hundred bucks and couldn’t believe some designers charged over a thousand dollars for book cover design. Here are some factors that impact [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In Book cover critiques, book design tips
Posted April 25, 2012

How to make your book cover text stand out on the thumbnail version?

Today I got an email asking a common indie author question: how to I make the thumbnail book cover ‘pop’ but still make the cover look good at full size? Here’s the email: We [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In current projects
Posted April 22, 2012

The Supes: Supernatural paranormal book cover design

Just started the first cover for Shaw Warton’s The Super Series: Finding Esta. It need work, and some pretty decoration, but still a nice start.          

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By Derek Murphy
In current projects
Posted April 18, 2012

Carol Kilgore’s “In Name Only” Mystery Crime Book Cover Design

Working on a book cover design for Carol Kilgore’s “In Name Only”. Based on the description (pink building that catches on fire, handsome firefighter, protected witness always [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In Book cover critiques, book design tips
Posted April 14, 2012

How to design your own amazing, cheap and easy book cover

Do you absolutely need a book cover designer? No. You can probably do it by yourself, if you follow these simple steps: 1) Resist the urge to put everything INSIDE your book on the OUTSIDE. The [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In Uncategorized
Posted April 4, 2012

Legend of Mer II: The New Guardian

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By Derek Murphy
In current projects
Posted April 3, 2012

The Fruits of our Sins: A novel book cover design

  We started out looking for images of dead trees, babies and apples; these are some of the early covers:             I threw in a couple designs with this [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In current projects
Posted April 3, 2012

Baby Matrix: a non-fiction book cover design

Here are some of the designs I’ve made for Laura Carroll’s The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds from Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction will Create a Better [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In current projects
Posted April 3, 2012

States of Air: Political Satire Book Cover

United States of Air is a political satire; the author wanted to use a US flag with the stars forming a swastika, and it’s about (on the surface) a power-hungry government convincing people [...]

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