Knight of the Dixie Wilds custom book cover design

K. Meador unearthed an ancestor's well-written memoir and hit me up for a cover design.

NEW RELEASE - Memoir account of a young man in hiding and on the run in the backwoods of post-Civil War Texas.

Buck Tyler faces deception, enemies, prison and death in the years of reconstruction after the Civil War. He finds himself in love under these strange circumstances as well.

"Reaching the public road about three hundred yards from the branch crossing, they stopped, dismounted, and examined the road to see if there were any fresh horse tracks leading toward the meeting place of the Clansmen. There were no indications that mounted soldiers had passed. They were in time. A glimpse at the moon was enough to assure Buck that it was close to midnight, the time the soldiers had set to make their attack on the Clansmen. Scarcely had another minute passed when they heard the patter of many horses’ feet.

The troopers were approaching. The boys turned their horses loose in the bushes and hastily drew the rawhide lariats across the road, drew them tight about six feet above the ground and tied them to trees. Then they retired a few places into the brush to await results."

Currently $4.99 on Amazon.

Find K. Meador's author website in the side bar.

For those who are curious, the photo files used in this design...

Meador felt like the post-Civil War era would have been a modest time and the woodsman would not have been running around shirtless (or tattooed). So I used the shirt from the middle stock image and got rid of the snap-down pockets and snaps as I didn't think those were around during that time.

Pre-Designed Book Covers - Non-fiction Motivational, Self-help, etc. $45

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What you get

• Book cover as a .jpg file, 6x9 inches (1800 x 2700 pixels) at 300 dpi
• Meets requirements for kindle upload and CreateSpace print cover

• Promotion of your book on my website, my Facebook design page, my personal Facebook

Get a Heads Up on new pre-designs: If you'd like to be among the first to see new pre-designs, email me with "Pre-design notices" in the subject line. I won't share your email or bug you to death. I usually add pre-designs once per week.

Pre-Designed Book Covers - Military $50

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What you get

• Book cover as a .jpg file, 6x9 inches (1800 x 2700 pixels) at 300 dpi
• Meets requirements for kindle upload and CreateSpace print cover

• Promotion of your book on my website, my Facebook design page, my personal Facebook

Trilogy covers - $70 each or the set of three for $195 if purchased all at once (a $15 discount). The sets can be expanded beyond three books for longer series. $5 discount off each additional cover in the series.

Get a Heads Up on new pre-designs: If you'd like to be among the first to see new pre-designs, email me with "Pre-design notices" in the subject line. I won't share your email or bug you to death. Usually add pre-designs once per week, definitely not more often than that.

The Twice Dead by ML Katz released today

The Twice Dead, by ML Katz, was released on Amazon today. It includes a revised and expanded edition of the novella Waking the Zed plus the second book The Twice Dead. This is one of my favorite covers (I keep saying that with nearly every new cover; they're all pretty exciting to me) and a genre that my family and I enjoy.

A little about the book: Pam Stone is a graduate pathology student working a summer internship at Future Faith Cryonics. Babysitting frozen bodies is bad enough but her boss, Dr. Ada Klein, cranks up the creep factor. When something goes terribly wrong, Pam is in the dead middle of it. An eclectic group that includes a veteran and a deli owner/witch, among others, are thrown together in a race to figure out a remedy before it's far too late.


Buy it on Amazon.



ML Katz's The Information Thieves also sports a CCR book cover.

About The Information Thieves:  Dr. Julia Levi's research and development work saves lives. She adores her prestigious job at World Tech in Dallas and the high society life her position entitles her to. She also believes that her employer is good, and her brother, Eli, only associates with a group called The Merry Men to play silly computer games she wishes he would outgrow. The Merry Men, actually serious cyber-hackers, uncover some shocking news about World Tech and make it public, After Eli disappears, Julia realizes that nobody is playing games.




Katz's first novel, Raft People, was recently picked up by Permuted Press.

The water is rising and Liz Green, along with her suburban family, their neighbors, and billions of people all over the world, are stuck between the rising seas and snarled land escape routes. The military and authorities are overwhelmed by the scope of this global climate change disaster. The wealthy and well-connected rush to expensive sea habitats. Ordinary people cannot expect to get help in time.

RaftPeople.com is formed to coordinate the efforts of ordinary people who plan to construct homemade crafts in order to float out of the disaster. Overwhelmed and ill prepared, Liz and her family and neighbors must struggle against nature and gangs of hoodlums. The military may provide some help, but urban guerrillas have chosen to use this opportunity to take out the government, and the rebels do not seem to mind some collateral damage.

Pre-Designed Book Covers - Post Apocalyptic, Dystopian, Sci-Fi

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What you get

• Book cover as a .jpg file, 6x9 inches (1800 x 2700 pixels) at 300 dpi
• Meets requirements for kindle upload and CreateSpace print cover

• Promotion of your book on my website, my Facebook design page, my personal Facebook

Get a Heads Up on new pre-designs: If you'd like to be among the first to see new pre-designs, email me with "Pre-design notices" in the subject line. I won't share your email or bug you to death. Usually add pre-designs once per week.

Sci-Fi 1 through 6 $35 each

Lost: One Pair of Rose Colored Glasses... novel cover design

Some of the most fun novel cover designs happen when the author says "I have no idea what to do for a cover". We wind up bouncing ideas off of each other and eventually come up with something cool.

First, a little about the book...

Shay Ray Stevens takes a hilarious look at that first year of marriage when you wonder "what the heck have I gotten myself into?" The rose colored glasses have not only been lost but probably stomped and kicked into the gutter.

Her character, Emily Swanson, has in-laws who forget to knock, a husband whose mind she's supposed to read or at least pick up on the vague hints, and a slew of funny worries that make her struggle to keep her cool.

Enter Mother and the Cult of Married Women and Stevens has us laughing while Emily learns how to keep her sanity.

Find the blurb on the Amazon page.

Stevens described her book but the title alone made me think of a lost dog sign on a utility pole. Then there are those poles that have a cluster of bent, rusty nails from all the old signs. We felt like those extra nails could represent all the other newlyweds out there who have lost their rose colored glasses.

At first I had a nice, clean sheet of new paper for the sign but Shay Ray said let's grunge it up a bit like it's weathered and worn. That turned out to be much better than the white paper.

The kindle version was finished first and when the print version was ready for publication, we added the spine and back featuring the blurb and Shay Ray's bio tie-in.

Stevens is nearly finished with a second book, due around Mother's Day... and now I can't remember if she's revealing the title yet or not... but the cover went through even more concept tossing and it is fun and funny.

Follow Shay Ray Stevens on her author facebook page.

Pre-Designed Book Covers: Erotica $50

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What you get

• Book cover as a .jpg file, 6x9 inches (1800 x 2700 pixels) at 300 dpi
• Meets requirements for kindle upload and CreateSpace print cover

• Promotion of your book on my website, my Facebook design page, my personal Facebook

Get a Heads Up on new pre-designs: If you'd like to be among the first to see new pre-designs, email me with "Pre-design notices" in the subject line. I won't share your email or bug you to death. I usually add pre-designs once per week.