Craig-Young-Yuma-Sector book cover picture illustration by graphic artist Duncan Long

I recently had the pleasure of creating the cover illustration and layout for Craig Young’s horror/action novel Yuma Sector, which is now available from Amazon.com and iTunes.

The picture and layout are pretty straightforward; we employed a stencil typeface for the title and back lead to capture a little bit of a “government” feel since the main character is a US Border Agent investigating the mysterious disappearance of illegal aliens coming into the US through the border fence.

Yuma Sector cover layout and picture by Duncan Long

These days most authors create web sites to help promote their books. Craig created one that sort of blew me away the first time I visited: Sound, animation, and a video as well as links to sites selling his book. I think authors would do well to copy this model as I bet it will sell some books.

You can visit the Yuma Sector web page to see if you don’t agree that the site is pretty fantastic.