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You can do a lot of fun stuff with Photoshop. I wanted to show how genre distinctions in book cover design is mostly about fonts and color, and maybe some text overlays. So I took a couple pretty [...]

When I started designing book covers a couple years ago, I remember looking at designers who were charging over $700 for a print cover and thinking they were charging way too much money. How [...]

I’ve been working on Brian Smith’s thriller “Purified” for a couple of months. Like most challenging projects, we reached a few dead-ends before pushing through and [...]

Most of my covers take a few weeks. This one took almost a year. The author paid in November of 2012. The title is “The Oppressor’s Toolkit” so I started with these:   [...]

The temptation to make your own book cover and saving money is strong. And it can be done. There are no inherent drawbacks to doing it yourself; but without the experience you are likely to make [...]

When I started designing covers, I charged a few hundred bucks and couldn’t believe some designers charged over a thousand dollars for book cover design. Here are some factors that impact [...]

What’s the purpose of your book? Why are your writing it, and who do you expect to read it? Recently I’ve met several authors who don’t plan to pay for a book cover, because [...]