It’s all romance here today! I’ve been looking forward to being able to show this for a very long time. The MacKinnon’s Bride by Tanya Anne Crosby. I love this cover so much, and am proud to be able to share. Go forth and buy her wonderful books!
Tanya Anne Crosby, one of my most favourite people ever, has launched Happily Ever After. As always, it was wonderful to work with her on this cover – we went through about a million versions of it, but arrived at a meeting place in the end. I urge you to check her books out, as …
YA author Suzy Turner has done a cover reveal for her new novel The Ghost of Josiah Grimshaw, and I wanted to share. This was such a fun cover to work on, and I loved the theme of sisters (in heart and soul, if not in biology). Suzy was wonderful to work with, and I …
For some time I’ve been wanting to do a post describing the step-by-step process and collaboration that results in book cover art. A successful cover starts with communication, winds through a forest of various interpretations and ideas (and a few side tracks) and comes out at the other end with an image that both represents …
Craig Hallam has done a book cover reveal for Greaveburn – be sure to check it out! A hero murdered. A girl alone. A city of villains. From the crumbling Belfry to the Citadel’s stained-glass eye, across acres of cobbled streets and knotted alleyways that never see daylight, Greaveburn is a city with darkness …
Tanya Anne Crosby has re-released Lady’s Man with the new cover. She was a joy to work with, and this was a fun cover to do. Thanks to the friends and fans on the author’s Facebook page, we had a lot of feedback to work with! It’s a good book, as well – I was …
Quick project from this morning, just for fun. Click on the image above for information and credits regarding model stock used. I’m going to have to change my terms and conditions for book cover design, unfortunately. I’d kept it reasonably informal since I wasn’t doing an enormous amount of work and I’d not had a …
Just to keep my hand in, because I haven’t done any art in too long, and because there can never be enough drowned girl covers. /sarcasm Click for credits on stock used
<< Part Three Book Cover Art: Sizes, Resolutions & Formats I am totally rewriting this section as publishers have changed format requirements, making the cover process much easier and simpler for all. I used to reformat the finished cover for the various devices and provide all the files to authors in a .zip file, which …
<< See Part Two In this section we’re going to talk about the mockup stage, how rough concepts are created, and what each party (both the cover artist and the author or editor) needs from them. For this post, I’m going to make up a fake book written by a fake author. I’m going to …
