Book back cover

Where to start with your first book cover design?

Take a look at July’s finest winning designs, find some inspiration and vote for your favorite.

This definitive post includes a step-by-step guide on how to build the back of a book cover, with tips from top professional designers and a free template.

Learn the anatomy of a book cover with this in-depth article.

If you’re looking for escapism, 2023’s book cover design trends seem determined to banish the darkness. This year feels less about the words and more about the feeling: it seems like it’s time to forget guidelines around hierarchy and decorum and just let rip. Check out the 2023 book cover design trends.

If you’re a self-published author, standing out can be especially difficult. But there is one thing you can do to give your book a chance to stand out in an overcrowded marketplace: finding a great cover designer to work with. Here's how!

sezenahiskal created a custom book cover on 99designs. They got dozens of unique ideas from professional designers and picked their favorite.

Towards the end of last year we spotted the delightfully designed book covers of Janet Hansen in The New York Times’ _The Best Book Covers of 2016_ list. The chosen design was a typographic illusion cover of Rebecca Schiff’s novel _The Bed Moved_, that would stop any avid reader or design fiend in their tracks. After discovering that Janet is a designer at Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, we soon unearthed an array of thoughtfully apt book covers.

Another month of books, another month of book covers. This month, I found a lot to celebrate in the world of cover art: the brilliantly simple and the brilliantly baroque, the ducks (er, parrots) a…