Let's Turn Your Ideas into Reality

In this moody and romantic book cover, we can see far away into the distance, which provides plenty of depth. The medieval castle adds mystery and intrigue, and helps place the time period. The queen adds additional beauty and enchantment to the scene.

Don't you love trains? Shown is a fictionalized representation of a Russian train on the Trans Siberian Railroad. Note the frozen tundra of the Russian landscape. Kind of reminds one of the movie "Dr. Zhivago." Cover is reproduced with permission of the author. 

From the popular humorist Irene Woodbury. The bright red and pink suggest the love interest, and the computer with the crime scene banners across it suggest mystery.

Notice the contrast of a huge nature scene in the background, and a woman quietly reading a book sitting on her luggage in the foreground. This scene creates interest, color and beauty.

Science Fiction and Fantasy are wonderful genres to design for, because you can let your imagination run wild a little bit, seeking colorful and mysterious settings with the excitement and drama of looking to the distant future. For the second in the series of two, we kept the same basic design but changed the picture of the woman and the science-fiction scenery.

Yes, we offer children's book cover design! Sue Skelding's popular Vet Kids Club series offers exciting journeys and stories for kids, including all kinds of animal adventures which they love.

Kind of a whimsical look on her face: not too sad, and yet not smiling either. The photographer had titled his photograph “Dreary Beauty.” It seemed perfect for this book, Beautiful Dreamer.

Designers love short titles! This is probably the shortest title featured in this portfolio. Another well-known classic example of a really cool short title is Jaws.

The first book in The Stonehaven Saga. Can I admit something to you? For color and general composition, I was somewhat influenced by one of the designs for the #1 New York Times bestselling novel "The Whistler" by John Grisham. But I think that's ok. After all, didn't Norman Rockwell say that he was somewhat influenced by N. C. Wyeth? (But I am NOT comparing myself to either of those two!)

This is one of a series of books in the Cozy Mystery genre, a relatively new sub-genre of Crime Fiction, where sex, violence, and cursing are kept to a minimum, and often happen off stage. The tone of cozies is generally light, comedic, and comforting. This series is cleverly titled A Drop of Mystery.

Book 2 in the Irish Blessing Series. The fonts are the same as Book 1 (shown at the top of this page), and yet with a different picture, the mood is different. But the style of the illustration in Book 1 and Book 2 are the same, which shows consistency and good branding.

S G D Singh is a popular author in the YA Urban Fantasy Adventure genre. As for In the Heart of Babylon, everything in this cover means something, from the symbol in the middle to the dragonfly and the watercolor background. Add the distressed font and colors, and we have the perfect cover that she wants and that will work well for her fans.

The Stonehaven Saga Book 3 picks up when Bill is thirteen years old and he gets his own horse, whose name is Chance. When it came time to think about the design for the book cover, the author had already commissioned and received a painting of Bill and Chance that we used exactly as is, and it worked out quite well.

Genre: Historic Fiction. Readers usually like to see at least one of the main characters in the cover of the book, so that they can put a face with the story. This cover hopes to create drama by emphasizing the contrast between the fighting in the background and the sweet and innocent young woman in the foreground.

Author Oliver F. Chase offers this legal / medical thriller in his popular Phil Pfeiffer series. Oliver told me that he wanted a very readable font, from which the title could be easily read from a distance. I think we achieved that goal!

We hired the model and took the photo of her for this book cover. The fancy font treatment serves to attract the attention of potential readers. Combining the beautiful young model, the cowboy hat and the skyline of Nashville, it's a winning feel-good cover for this author.

This third installment in the Irish Blessing series intensifies the action, utilizing a medieval scene with plenty of color and movement. Over the years, knights fighting dragons and such have come to symbolize good versus evil, a metaphor worthy of this particular collection of stories.

Book 4 of The Stonehaven Saga finds Bill hired on a ranch and meeting his life long friend Fergus McClaren, who is everything that Bill is not. He is outgoing and has big plans to one day own his own horse ranch. Shy Bill thrives under Fergus' leading and they eventually strike out and build Stonehaven Ranch. Note there is plenty of action on this cover, which attracts the eye. 

Part of a series called Ocean Edge - A trilogy of books in the romantic fiction genre. Romantic fiction usually gives a chance to create a cover that is beautiful, instead of one that is maybe evil or dark in some way.

This cover attempts to show wonder and uncertainty. This is achieved by the mood of the picture itself, and also the cropping is a little bit unusual, as the figure and the title are placed off center. And of course not showing the face helps to add to the mystery and intrigue.

Sometimes you don't have to use too many design tricks to create the right cover. In this instance, all that was needed was just a beautiful young woman, some beautiful scenery, and the right font to create color and design.