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I’m still a little self-conscious when it comes to adding “cover design by Derek Murphy” on the back of my book cover designs. It feels like I’m installing secret spyware. [...]

You can probably tell a lot about a book cover designer by the book covers that they like. So here are a few of my favorite book covers, in a variety of genres. These appeal to me for different [...]

I learned an interesting lesson today from Terra Harmony at http://twainwannabe.blogspot.com. Basically, Terra knew exactly what she wanted from a book cover, and told her cover designer what to [...]

If you have access to Adobe Photoshop and have time to play around, you can make a pretty amazing book cover by yourself. Making book covers is fun and – if you publish a lot of books [...]

It’s my pleasure to have been working on an updated cover for Ruth Nestvold’s “Yseult” recently – we ended up with several nice choices:     We went with [...]