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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.          

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 [...]

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 [...]

For obvious reasons, almost all of my book cover design clients are also looking for ebook conversion and formatting so they can put their book up on Kindle, B&N, Apple/iBooks, and other [...]

  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 [...]