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A lot of young designers (or old designers!) reach out and ask me how they can become a book cover designer or get started in this business. If you want to start book cover design… watch [...]

Recently I’ve been watching with interest new forms of collaborative publishing. I’ve also noticed (with dread) a whole bunch of micro-publishers who will accept your manuscript and [...]

I just wrote a pretty long post about book cover design on my blog and figured some things out. One of which is that I’m not longer competing with other book cover designers. As a 1-person [...]

  [optinform] Book cover design is just one of the things I do. I also manage about a dozen publishing related businesses and publish books of my own. In fact, having spent over 10 years [...]

I get stressed and busy sometimes, but some nights (like tonight) my job rocks. I’m working on one cover, the author wants a sketch of pre-1757 London in black and white, with a color photo [...]