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By Derek Murphy
In book design tips
Posted December 2, 2015

How to become a book cover designer

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 [...]

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Posted September 20, 2014

Partner with me

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 [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In Uncategorized
Posted September 13, 2014

Prices are going up this month!

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 [...]

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Posted August 17, 2014

Seize your Creative Independence

  [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 [...]

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By Derek Murphy
In Book cover critiques, book design tips
Posted July 28, 2014

Why book cover design is the best job in the world

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 [...]

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