Book Cover Illustrations

I received word this week that a typeface I’d designed (“Back In the USSR”) is being employed on the film poster (and possibly with the credits) for In the Land of Blood and Honey. The movie marks the screen writing/directing debut of Angelina Jolie and has already won The Producers Guild of America’s 2012 Stanley […]

I just got word that Joan C. Wrenn’s Unsung Lord of Siyah Chan: A Novel of the Ancient Maya is now in print (from Outskirts Press). This is the fourth book in Wrenn’s series about ancient Maya culture. Like the previous novel that I painted the cover illustration for, this offered a unique challenge in […]

There was a time when I drew my black and white artwork with pen and ink, working over pencil sketches that then were erased after the ink had dried. It was intensive, back-breaking work that often took all day just to produce two or three drawings. And in my youth I played with oil paints […]

Some time ago my author friend Karen S. Elliott had some questions that led to some answers that might be of help to other writers needing a book cover. She asked, “What could writers do to make your job easier? Better description of what they want? Do they even know what they want? What’s the […]