Book Cover Illustrations

For years I’ve been working on a science fiction novel Wrong Side In. The story takes place in the near future and travels around the word with a little time hoping to boot. The central character is a juvenile delinquent at the beginning of the story and slowly is transformed by events and his own […]

Thanksgiving Day here in the US… Not working on holidays is tough for me – I love doing what I do for a living. That said, this has been a great year in terms of having work to do, something many in the US can’t say this year. So I have much to be thankful […]

This is a sort of spin off from my book cover project for Dale Allan’s novel Me Not Not Into Temptation. Initially I did a sketch of the priest with his back to the viewer and one with his front — the latter being the one chosen for the cover since it was easy to […]

This is the preliminary cover illustration I did with red lettering for the title (which, tentatively, is the final version of the cover — all things subject to change in publishing) for Dale Allan’s upcoming mystery novel Lead Me Not Into Temptation. For a closer look at what sort of symbolism/thought went into the layout […]

This is the preliminary cover illustration I’ve created for Dale Allan’s upcoming mystery novel Lead Me Not Into Temptation. We tried to capture the conflict in one of the key scenes in the book, in which a priest is faced with the moral dilemma of whether to take matters into his own hands, and perhaps […]

“Elfin Dreams In Autumn” is an old painting, but seems suitable for this time of the year. All rights are currently available including book cover illustration and magazine artwork rights. ===================== When not racking leaves with the hope of uncovering an elf, Duncan Long creates magazine and book illustrations for HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, […]

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, […]

I’ve now finished over 80 B&W illustrations for the upcoming graphic novel Werewolves of New Idria to be released by Moonstone Books next year. Also in the mix are several cover proposals, a poster (that may become the cover), and the concept artwork leading up to the graphic novel (which was written by John Chadwell). […]

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 […]

A sneak peek at the book cover illustration that will appear on John Phillip Backus’ new novel The Gathering: After the Fall (book two in the series).