Book Cover Illustrations

Here’s the book illustration I finished this week for the cover of Dale Allan’s crime novel It Could Happen to You. The author wanted a realistic picture of a lonely mountain road where a bit of violence takes place at the beginning of the story. My original layout had the limo grill facing the viewer […]

Here’s the cover illustration for A. J. Vega’s science fiction adventure A. I. Offspring. The cloud of “smoke” coming from the gal’s hand is an outpouring of tiny nanobots… I’ll not say more since I don’t want to give away too much of the plot. From a design standpoint, having just one of the three […]

Yesterday I had a blast creating the various elements for the cover illustration of A. J. Vega’s A. I. Offspring novel. Shown here is the star drive engine (created by aliens in the story). The system centers around an artificial crystal “conduit” which houses an artificial intelligence consciousness. Since human technology tends to be symmetrical, […]

Happy Samhain, everyone. Samhain is the Celtic celebration of summer’s end and the beginning dark days of autumn and winter. Lasting several days, the celebration was seen as a time when the separation between those living and those dead became thin, and sometimes spirits would venture into the land of the living. The living attempted […]

I just got word from the editor of Lamplighter (published by Lion and Lamb Ministries) that one of my pictures will be used for the Jan/Feb 2011 issue of the magazine. The cover layout uses a neat little trick, masking and cutting out the fist of Satan to place it over the date masthead. If […]

I received this good news that I thought I’d pass along (having done the book illustration for the cover of this title). And congratulations to Tom for penning a riveting story that garnered this recognition. ============================== Orlando, FL / October 27, 2010 – The Florida Writer’s Association announced that The Gaelic Letters has won second […]

You know you’re dealing with an exciting storyline when two men will be leaping from the back of a jetliner flying at night.

To celebrate the Halloween season, I’m offering a free ebook of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Eleonora.”

OK… these have to bring the total cover concepts I’ve created for the graphic novel Werewolves of New Idria (written by John Chadwell and soon to be released by Moonstone Books) up to something like eight different versions. The good news is that they seem to be getting better along the way. And each rejected […]

Being creative means facing a lot of rejections. Editors, clients, critics all can draw blood with remarks that often fail to acknowledge the human frailties of the artist, that maximize his shortcomings, and which generally minimize his achievements. (And artists don’t help matters by often being moody and aloof, hiding behind an I-could-care-less facade.) Those […]