Book Cover Illustrations

I’ve created two graphic novels of sorts (Witches and Fish and The Raven — both available from Amazon.com as well as the artwork for the Werewolves of New Idria written by John Chadwell). However, while these three books meet the requirements of being sequential, telling a story, and being supported by artwork, aren’t in the […]

For many self-publishing authors, sales have tanked due to the huge number of authors, and the fact that many are giving away their products to get a higher “sales” position (arguably 50 percent of zero is zero). One way many authors have employed to get their books above the maddening crowd of mediocre, self published […]

Another of the new cover illustrations for John Bowers’ science fiction “Starport” series of novels. As the title shows, this is for Prisoners of Eroak. This cover presented a problem that is often encountered in creating book covers: A title that takes up two lines, thereby dictating that the illustration have more “real estate” at its […]

The cover (above) of Martin Wilsey’s new science fiction novel Still Falling. This cover layout is a beautiful example of how cropping can make a dramatic change in the impact of an illustration. While I created the artwork for this cover, I didn’t do the layout — and am quite jealous of the work (ha). Here’s […]

The Kindle version of Anthony Pacheco’s science fiction novel The Wælcyrie Murders is now available for pre-order from Amazon. The ebook will be available on January 30, 2015. The Wælcyrie Murders is book two in the Lexus Toulouse science fiction/mystery series. Here’s a bit about the plot: Out of the Gifford-Pinchot Forest stumbles a wælcyrie, […]

Got word that Michael Leo Samuel’s A Shepherd’s Song: Psalm 23 and the Shepherd Metaphor In Jewish Thought is now in print. The illustration was pretty straight forward. Samuel found a work I’d done previously, and he told me what other features were needed. From there I created the illustration and it was “good to […]

I was happy to learn several of my illustrations have been featured in the “For Writers: Publishing Tips and News” section at EveryWriterSource.com. The pictures are also slated to appear in its magazine. (If you’re an author, note that the electronic version of the magazine is available for free, and is a great source of […]

I recently had the pleasure of creating the book cover illustration and layout for Anthony Pacheco’s novel Wælcyrie Murders, the second book in the Lexus Toulouse science fiction mystery series. Here’s the blurb that sets up the story: “Out of the Gifford-Pinchot Forest stumbles a wælcyrie, shot with irradiated bullets, and radiation poisoned unto death. […]

Before I created the cover illustration for Thomas D. Bryson’s Ouroh trilogy, the author asked me to read his book manuscript (and, yes, paid me a handsome sum for the task). It was a thick manuscript — actually three whole books — and a daunting read due to the marvelous word play that demands some […]

We recently completed the cover for Mandy Huston’s horror story Rising of the Cursed. And as is often the case, we took a somewhere circular route getting to the final version of the book cover illustration. The original idea was to have a moon with a prowling wolf silhouetted in front of it, with the […]