The Struggle for Midwifery in Ontario Ivy Lynn Bourgeault The author wanted to use an image of a pregnant woman. I went completely in the ot...

Robert M. Campbell This is one of those books that could easily have a had a very straightforward cover - image of a modern postal facility ...

Mark Abley This is a recent poetry book cover. The cover has matte lamination with a spot gloss varnish on the melting butter.

Martin Guggenheim From the back cover: “He Challenges the conventional views of children’s rights advocates, arguing persuasively that child...

Jennie Erdal This is a story about a ghost writer. From the back cover: “... she was also secretly writing her boss’s love letters, hundreds...

Robert Lecker With a title like this and the fact that the book deals with the author's lifelong love of Canadian literature this seemed...

Nicholas Maes

Glen Rotchin This is actually my wallet which has achieved a certain degree of notoriety over the years. It was sitting beside my computer w...

Italians in Alberta and British Columbia Patricia K. Wood

Lesley D. Clement In this work of literary criticism the author traces the evolution of Mavis Gallant’s visually evocative style through fiv...

Matthew Kneale

Karen Rivers This was my first foray into young adult fiction. The mandate was to provide a new and contemporary look for this category. Eac...

Ricardo Sternberg A bamboo church is a birdcage. Ricardo Sternberg is a poet who was born in Brazil and now resides in Canada. “Ricardo Ster...

Kevin Kopelson This is the printed cover. The only stipulation was that concept had to feature a cigarette prominently. This was ano...

Howard Richler This is a book that moves through the alphabet from A to Z singling out words that may look innocuous but contain treasures o...

Daphne Patai and Will H. Corral

David Kolb The author contends that the suburbs and communities away from urban centers are actually more complex than you would think. They...

Daniel Dagenais This is a book about non-traditional families. I had done another cover a couple of years ago on a similar subject. The chal...

This is a project I am working on now. “The Art of Living” invites philosophers to write for a popular readership on aspects of contemporary...

Andrew Hood Quoting from the back cover: These unapologetic stories deal with an assortment of foolish self-destructive small town anti-hero...

Herman Gruenwald This was a case where the author had come up with a sketch on his own that he wanted to use for cover art. The visual metap...

Andrew Szasz

Newfoundland Traditions of Spells and Counterspells Barbara Rieti This is another one for the salon des refusés . I rearranged the icebergs ...

lisa Nakamura This was one of the options I really liked for this cover but in the end it wasn't chosen. This is the printed cover.

Christopher Patton For this poetry book cover the poet was adamant he didn't want an ox on the cover which I could totally understand. N...

Naomi Guttman Another recent poetry cover. From the back cover copy: “In Wet Apples, White Blood , Naomi Guttman offers glimpses into the am...

Micheline R. Ishay Here is the original image.

These four covers were selected in 50 Books/50 Covers this year.

Dan Rickels March 11 This is the final chosen cover. I wanted to find an unusual way of depicting the devil and found this cool piece of ori...

David Manciom April 4 final approval pending The brief was that the cover had to portray espionage/Russia/subatomic particles. From the cata...

A Guide to Everyday Sounds Edited by Jean-François Augoyard and Henry Torgue From the back cover: Never before has the “everyday soundtrack”...

Sarah Thornton Non-fiction The book is a total immersion in the art world – from creation to art sale glamour. The word “glamour” was key in...