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Authors just starting out as independents are often on a shoestring budget. They’ve written something they think is great (valuable, funny, sexy, moving, powerful, emotional, dark, imaginative) and they want to share that with the world. Going indie is a way to get that book out the door and into the market without having to [...]

Want a typeface for your cover and don’t know what you want, or where to get it, or which will work best? Welcome to my world. Well, part of my world anyway. I know where to get typefaces, both free and purchased. And that I am going to share with you. But as for searching [...]

Many authors concentrate on getting a great piece of cover art for their cover. There are a lot of resources for cover art out there, as I talked about in my piece on stock art. But I have seen many a beautiful illustration ruined by poor use of typefaces. I mean, buying a piece of [...]

Stock art. It’s ubiquitous these days. There are a ton of different sources, some specifically targeted to authors for book covers. Historical romance authors would be pretty much SOL without stock art, and Jimmy Thomas is so common on covers it almost becomes surprising to see a cover without him. There’s free stock art, pricey [...]

  I started to write a post on stock art this morning. But first, I realized I needed to talk a bit about copyright. Because I never fail to be astounded at how very little authors (and pretty much most people) understand about copyright, how it works, and when or if they may be violating [...]

Now some of you will know this. You will. Maybe most of you will know it. But some of you don’t. I know you don’t. How do I know you don’t? Because I see your book covers. Oh yes, I do see them. And you have it. The dreaded. The horrible. The reviled for very [...]

I am very excited to announce the start of my blog specifically dedicated to book cover art and design. Of course I’m also totally worn out from fighting with the WordPress template for over 9 hours! I knew what I wanted, I actually paid for the stupid template, and it wouldn’t give me exactly what [...]