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I’m excited about Amazon’s new platform for serialized fiction Vella (if you haven’t heard of it yet, here’s a post where I break down the details: “What is Kindle [...]

  Thriller, mystery and suspense covers have subtle differences that are important to get right. Even a poorly designed cover can work as long as it’s obviously communicating the [...]

  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 [...]

Here’s a video of the speech I gave on book cover design at Author Marketing Live 2014; I’m not a very polished speaker, but you’ll learn a lot about book cover design (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 [...]

I was browsing a bookstore today (a recreational hobby + business training) and noticed, not for the first time, that almost all the books have “COVER DESIGN BY …” with the [...]

Dear Authors – given my decade of living overseas and moving around pretty regularly, I didn’t think relocating to Tainan (Taiwan), a city I’ve already lived in for many years, [...]

I just redid my website design. Pretty slick huh? I also rewrote a lot of my “sales copy.” I’m realizing that my tone often sounds harsh, judgmental, critical, rather than [...]

For the past year I’ve been super busy working on book covers. During that time I’ve struggled, often, with competing visions for the book cover design. I want something that looks [...]