Book Cover Illustrations

Jordé Living Gallery International is now offering another of my exclusive prints starting at $30. You can order or learn more about this and other prints via: jordetheartist@yahoo.com or call 1-407-310-8589. If you’re in the Sarasota, Florida area, you can visit the gallery and see its collection of paintings, prints, and other artwork at:1532 Stickney […]

David Kempf’s science fiction thriller Travel Bug is available this weekend in the Kindle format for free. It’s a good read and you can get a copy from Amazon.com. Here’s the synopsis for the book: “A prestigious family is hiding a dangerous secret. It’s deep within the walls of their grand estate. But no secret […]

Last year I created some new artwork to go with my new edition of my sci-fi novel Antigrav Unlimited 3.1. This book is special to me since it was the first novel I got into print with a big publisher (in this case Avon Books which — back in the mid-1980s — had a nice […]

From time to time, I get the chance to create a book cover illustration of a historic character. This gets a little tricky because often the “historic” pictures of them are another ancient artist’s notion of what the character looked like — often incorporating elements that are in fashion or vogue within the culture and […]

I just got word that John Bowers’ newest sci-fi novel Manhunt on Tau Ceti 4 is now available at Amazon. The book is number six in the Nick Walker, U.F. Marshal series. I’d created a 3D figure of Nick Walker for a previous cover I did in this series, so I was able to rapidly […]

Sometimes an artist is called upon to create a monster, demon, fairys, gnome, troll or alien beast. And that’s always a challenge because the public has been “educated” by movies and artwork to expect a certain “look” from many of these creatures; meanwhile the client hiring the artist to create a picture for a book […]

I’ve been working on expanding my illustration portfolio as well as creating artwork that might be purchased as a “premade” book cover. Above is a sci-fi picture titled “Hanna’s Heart.” I do artwork for magazine and books, encompassing a number of genres; science fiction and fantasy are the two genres I do artwork for most […]

I’ve created two graphic novels of sorts (Witches and Fish and The Raven — both available from Amazon.com as well as the artwork for the Werewolves of New Idria written by John Chadwell). However, while these three books meet the requirements of being sequential, telling a story, and being supported by artwork, aren’t in the […]

For many self-publishing authors, sales have tanked due to the huge number of authors, and the fact that many are giving away their products to get a higher “sales” position (arguably 50 percent of zero is zero). One way many authors have employed to get their books above the maddening crowd of mediocre, self published […]

One final installment (for a while) to show off some of my Dieselpunk artwork. The pictures in this post are all artwork created for Stephen Quayle’s Empire Beneath the Ice. Above is the “Dorn” aircraft that the Nazis were working on during the end of WWII (and rumored to have become operational following the war […]