Lee Gutkind Proposed cover for a book about writing creative nonfiction. In the end we went in another direction (below).

This is new YA series I am working on. Each story is told in the first person - single voice. The logo for series has been accepted but we a...

Edited by Michel Seymour

Mark McLeod-Harrison

Annie Jacobsen

approval pending

This is a preliminary image for a novel that is about the crazy mixed up life of a man and his multiple concurrent marriages.

Approval pending Title refers to small wax wish boats.

Just got approved. Illustration by the very talented Christoph Niemann These are other ideas for the salon des refusés.

This one is approved. Below is another option I presented.

Earl Henslin

approval pending From the cover brief: The central theme of the book is the role played by resentment and revenge in the history – that is, ...

Don LePan This cover is going into final production. From the back cover: Animals is a powerful novel set in an indeterminate future in whi...

approval pending I just sent this one off. The author, who is of Indian descent, played hockey on a woman's hockey team at a Canadian un...

Peter Swirski Cowboy boots as bookends for the Bush Era. From the back cover: The end of George W. Bush's imperial presidency means that...

I found this in the river at the back of our farm. It is part of old tree root that had grown around a small stone. A really interesting blo...

Ronald Bleiker I was given a selection of photographs to work from for this two colour cover. I really loathe duotones and whenever possible...

approval pending Very simple idea. I like how the pages separate between Canada and the U.S.

I am still working on this cover. We are going to go with another direction but there was something I liked about this. The book is about me...

The author had taken some photographs of Los Angeles and I was given a selection to work with. This one caught my attention right away. Ther...

This one is almost put to bed. In the end a simpler approach was called for. I used four different flourishes (worms) in the frame element ...

Daniel Pambianchi preliminary sketches

We did advanced review copies for this book and when I got first saw it my reaction was less than positive - it lacked finesse. I have rewo...

S. P. Zitner The kind of cover you could only get away with on a poetry book. Yes I know the type is really small.

This one took quite a bit of back and forth to arrive at the final result. One of the reasons I kind of like the end result is that it doesn...

The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine John McCaslin This printed and laminated cloth cover has a velum jacket that allows the art to show ...

This one would fall into the category of just getting out of the way of a great photograph.

Peter Van Toorn The font I used for this cover went out of circulation for a while but is back now. Wonky font for sure but the italic is ki...

Unusual approach for this poetry cover. The publisher went for the dye-cut holes which is pretty cool.

I was hard at work staring at my computer screen when I looked to my left and remembered that the sheep are back. They migrate back and fort...

Edward W. Sarah I wanted the type on this cover to convey "improvisation" and thought reflecting it in the trombone would be inter...

Quill and Quire , which is our version of Publishers Weekly , does a regular feature on the process of developing a cover. They asked me to ...