How to publish a book yourself on Amazon for FREE

Publishing a book is all about book design. All you really need to publish is a formatted book that’s professionally laid out for print, with smart font choices that match your genre [...]

After designing over a thousand book covers (and earning about a quarter of a million bucks from my design business) I decided I’d rather write full-time than design covers for a living. [...]

I spent lots of time looking through premade covers. I find way more than I can ever buy (in my last shopping trip I added over $20,000 in covers to my cart). But I want to share these great [...]

Yesterday I saw something on Twitter that blew my mind: it was a promotional image of a book; but inside the book cover the pieces were moving around. It was amazing. So I started researching [...]

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 [...]

  This is an old post! The makeovers were fun but the opportunity is over. I’m presenting on book covers again at this year’s 46th Annual Willamette Writer’s Conference, [...]

An author asked for some feedback on a cover and introduced me to http://covercritics.com, where some awesome designers are helping authors by giving cover design feedback. This was the cover in [...]

Clients usually start out describing all their characters, a pivotal scene, a hundred details, the expressions on everybody’s faces and the way their bodies are posed. That won’t [...]

If you’re like me, you use Photoshop for graphic design. It’s better for blending layers and images. However there is some limitation with text – one common and frustrating [...]

Several months ago I was helping an author try to make a book cover. They had something very ugly, and I made something much better. I was working mostly for free (something I’m trying to [...]