Book View Café has issued quite a number of anthologies and multi-author collections over the years. It’s only natural that a group made up of so many members would from time to time offer a cornucopia to the book-buying public. One endeavor […]
A few weeks ago I blogged about the creation of the cover of The Wizard’s Nemesis, the third volume of my trilogy, The War of the Dragons. What I didn’t mention is that although it was the cover for the third volume, […]
Until now, whenever I have blogged about creating a book cover, the subject has been work I did for one or another of my author colleagues. The experience can be quite different when I do a cover for one of my own […]
For the Book View Café reissue of A Star Shall Fall, third of the four volumes of the Onyx Court sequence, Marie Brennan hoped for a cover that conveyed three essential elements. The first and most basic bit was branding. The book […]
When planning for the 2018 release of her novel Between Silk and Sand, Marissa Doyle knew she wanted certain things on the cover. Moreover, she knew when she wanted to have the cover available. She wanted a long lead time so that […]
It was 2014, and Sara Stamey needed a cover for her novel The Ariadne Connection. It wasn’t the plan that I be the person to actually do the cover. Instead, I was Sara’s production advisor, helping shepherd the title through the publication […]
When Kristine Smith asked me to come up with new covers for her “Jani Kilian” series of science fiction novels, she had a particular item on her wishlist. She wanted covers that featured a woman who actually looked like Jani. Kris’s original […]
HANGING OUT BY THE DOJO, SAN FRANCISCO, 1981 The headquarters dojo of Goju-Kai Karate-Do USA was for many years located at Eighteenth and Collingwood in San Francisco. It occupied the loft level of a two-story commercial building that had seen better days. […]
The first image you see here is the end result of my 2015 assignment to generate a cover for Realms of Darkover, edited by Deborah J. Ross, published by the Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust. I was the cover guy for the […]
