Book cover critiques

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve had several submissions recently and unfortunately no time to review or critique them, so I’m going to post them all at once – hopefully by comparing/contrasting these [...]

Suzanne Cox sent me her book cover design for “Marked”. Nice idea, done in Gimp. I tried to recreate it in photoshop. What I changed: I like the pale/whiteness, as it makes the red [...]

I’m remaking the book cover for Susan Russo Anderson’s “Death of a Serpent: A Serafina Florio Mystery”. The first cover is a little boring, with simple text and flat [...]

I got an email from Rose Andrade of Epub World about Curtix Hox’s novel “Bleedover”: We have a novel out, Bleedover. Bleedover is a dark fantasy novel, with lots of fantasy, [...]

Fiona asked me to critique this book cover for “Kick-ass debt guide: an irreverent and revolutionary new guide to debt and how to get rid of it FAST!” Book cover design critique: the [...]

Ty Gray submitted this book cover for a review and critique. The memoir, “23 Days,” is a book with the theme of persistence, hope, and redemption. It’s about a police career. [...]