Jacket/Cover Design for Grown Ups
It’s always fun to work up a cover design and I get asked to do it often. Since of course we all DO judge books by their covers, cover designs garner more scrutiny from clients than anything else. Here’s a selective sampling of covers I’ve produced in recent times — some published, some not — for the adult trade market.
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