I’ve been designing book covers, both ebook and print, for clients for a while now. My goal has always been to try to get the client to tell me what they want and then give them something as close to exactly that as possible. I’m limited in this endeavor by a distinct lack of artistic talent. I can’t draw anything that looks remotely like what I’m attempting.
What I do have is good design sense, thanks in some part of an art director I worked with at a magazine years ago. Before I started doing web sites I was an editor at a couple of trade publications. Back in the late 1990s, when the web began to explode, the publisher of the series of magazines I worked for at the time asked me to create websites for each. I knew nothing about the web but I did…
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