Book Cover Illustrations

Today’s authors are expected to promote their own titles. Often the best way of doing that is to get interviewed and quoted at blogs, in magazines and newspapers, and on the airwaves. Easier said than done. Back in the good old days, reporters beat the bushes for experts to interview. If an author had written […]

I’m sending out this year’s Christmas gift a bit early – to be sure it arrives before folks start leaving work for vacation. The gift is my newly illustrated version of Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of the Red Death (in PDF format). As noted in a previous post, a Poe story may seem an odd […]

Things are changing rapidly in the publishing field, especially when it comes to ebooks. Unexpected Ebook Events of the Past 18 Months. A PR release from Arbor Books that undoubtedly is a bit slanted, but nevertheless has some interesting information in it: Six Reasons the Anti-Self-Publishing Movement Is Dead How will the title of your […]

A couple of articles for those wanting to build their own books… A nice how-to article that gives the basics of eBook publishing: Publishing an Ebook. Everything You Need to Know to Design a Book’s Interior in 5 Simple Rules is a concise look at what the essentials for creating an excellent text layout for […]

A sneak peek at one of the book illulstrations for the up-coming edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” that I’m currently working on. ===================== Duncan Long is a freelance magazine and book illustrator for HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Solomon Press, Fort Ross, ISFiC Press, and many other publishers and […]

As most clients know, I don’t get much work done over the weekend unless we’re really pushing a deadline. That’s not to say I don’t spend most of my free time creating illustrations. It’s rather to say that I’m creating illustrations to please myself rather than for profit. Yes, sometimes (often in fact) these pictures […]

Authors who have secured a book contract with a major publisher are often surprised to discover that there’s virtually no promotion or support from a publisher for a title these days. There’s no publicity department issuing press releases, no big ads targeted at potential readers. That’s reserved for the top tier authors. The mid-list writers […]