All covers are custom-designed according to author vision, book content, and my design aesthetic, with the goal of creating a professionally executed final product. My covers encompass a full range of fiction and non-fiction.
I confer with the author about graphics, colors, styles, fonts, tone, and anything else that the author envisions.
Once we agree on the ideas, I manipulate graphics to suit the overall design. I do not use standard stock images as presented. I take parts of images, merge them with parts of other images, apply a variety of effects, and create an original and unique design for the cover.
My cover images wrap from the front through the spine to the back. Here’s an example:
KILLERTRUST by Sharon Woods Hopkins.
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Forty & Out – C. L. Pauwels
There’s No Room (for) . . . – William T. Scott, III
Pipeline Killers – Lyle Nicholson
Divine Intent – Paul Taylor
Life’s Not Yoga – Jacqui Burnett
Courting Murder – Bill Hopkins
River Mourn – Bill Hopkins
Bloody Earth – Bill Hopkins
Unfinished Grave – Bill Hopkins
Dishonest Corpse – Bill Hopkins
Harvest Death – Bill Hopkins
Flower from Castile, Book One: The Alhambra Decree – Lilian Gafni
Flower from Castile, Book Two: The New World – Lilian Gafni
Flower From Castile, Book Three – Lilian Gafni
Missing Mommy – Kay C. Burns
Killerwatt – Sharon Woods Hopkins
Killerfind – Sharon Woods Hopkins
Killertrust – Sharon Woods Hopkins
Killerground – Sharon Woods Hopkins
Say What? – C. S. Lakin
Shoot Your Novel – C. S. Lakin
Writing the Heart of Your Story – C. S. Lakin
In His Blood – Lee Williams
Sins of the Father – Lee Williams
The Governor’s Man – Lee Williams
Nighthawk – Lee Williams
Dixieland Murder – Teresa Lynn
Healing the shamed – John J. Glanville
Kept: An American Househusband in India – Greg E. Buford
One Father’s Love – Daniel Stone with Karen Enterlin
Rise to the Top – Dean Gould and David Goldin
Rising Up . . . from a Long Way Down – C. C. Gross
How to Apologize to a Woman – Karen Field Bolek
Beside the Golden Door – Beth Staas
Yesterday’s Gardenias – Eleanor Glikbarg Sweet
Towboat Joe – Capt. Joe Kent
Searching for Juliette – Marilyn Ludwig
Haste Ye Back – Marilyn Ludwig
The Secret of Kendall Mountain – Marilyn Ludwig
It’s Perfectly Safe – Marilyn Ludwig
The Geese that Won the War – Marilyn Ludwig
The Borrowed Days – Marilyn Ludwig
Waiting Games – Marilyn Ludwig
No small Parts – Marilyn Ludwig
Sea Changes – Bill Branley
Unlikely Glimpses of Grace – J. Patrick Vaughn
The Rockets’ Red Glare – Sue Ann Jafarian
A New Day Dawns – Melinda Morris Perrin
Yokuts Warrior – Robert Gage Evans
Sutter’s Fort – Robert Gage Evans
Omrod Smyth – Robert Gage Evans
James Cathcart – Ropert Gage Evans
The Porter Curse – Ronald D. Giles
Seeker’s Guide to Well-Being – Edward Searl
Words to Love By – Karn L. Boncela
Wisdom for the Ages – Edward Searl
12 Key Pillars of Novel Construction – C. S. Lakin
12 Key Pillars of Novel Construction Workbook – C. S. Lakin
Our Journal, Our Voices – Family Service Center
The Most Important Letter You Will Ever Write – Carolyn B. Healy
Manifest for Meaning – Edward Searl
If Only for the Season – Edward Searl
My Journal, My Voice – Family Shelter Service
As Grief Ebbs and Flows – Carolyn B. Healy
Around the Delaware Arc – Edward Searl
Barney Big Ears Learns a Lesson about Friendship – Written and Illustrated by Mary Koeberl Rechenberg
Andy’s Bubblegum Adventure – Mary Koeberl Rechenberg, Illustrated by Ashley Farrar