Over the years, I've done a lot of book covers (200+ at last count). I enjoy doing them (usually) because they have a lifetime far longer than advertising are commercial brochures. I occasionally find covers I did 30 years ago in second-hand shops... and have to buy them to prevent anybody else seeing them. As an avid reader, the first real notice I took of commercial illustration and design was through book covers (still a big fan of Chris Foss, Jim Burns and Bruce Pennington.) I still think it's cool that I get to do it as a job!

Some design themselves, others are hard work because there's nothing visual about the MS, or it's a subject you don't want to show explicitly (like gender reassignment.) Some are a challenge because the author insists on using something specific (in one case, a happy snap of their cat...). Although I've worked on a number of picture books, I've only included a few here because the illustrator usually has a clear idea of what the cover should be, and my job is simply to make it production-ready. The ones I have included entailed major work beyond placing their illustration on the page. In these cases, I like to discuss it directly with the illustrator as it's their book - not a chance for me to show off. Anything I do has to help make their work shine, not take it over.

The various elements for these covers come from a wide variety of sources - I have attempted to give credit where due.

 

A Body of Work

Before the Storm

Changing Yesterday

Bright Swallow

Butterfly & Oscar

Carrots & Jaffas

Chaconne

Crossing the Line

Dark Clouds on the Mountain

Dog Gone

In the Dark

F2M

Flora's War

Going Out Backwards

The Dizzying Heights

The Lowest Depths

Pandemonium

Before the Storm Cover

Jamie Brown is NOT Rich

Dragonlinks

Dragonfang

Dragonsight

Wardragon

Solace and Grief

Key to Starveldt

Pool

Pulling down the stars

Unsung Family hero

Voicing the Dead

No Turning Back

 

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