Book Cover Illustrations

I recently had the pleasure of creating the book cover illustration as well as the graphic design and layout for the cover of Kathryn H. Clark’s memoir My Odyssey. After several false starts, a friend of the author sat down with her and created a sketch which we then followed greatly simplifying the process as […]

The “Great Raven” blog reprinted my article “How to Kill a Book Cover” — which also gives a few tips on how not to ruin a book cover. If you’re hiring an illustrator of graphic artist to design a book cover for you, you’d do well to read this article before investing your hard-earned cash.

I recently created the cover illustration and layout for both the ebook and print version of Relentless by P. J. O’Dwyer. It proved to be a challenging project offering a great payoff with the resulting beautiful cover. It also allowed me to play a small part of the effort to help alert the public to […]