Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. You might not have heard of book cover design's "7 second ...

And you want a professional book cover designer, not just a good graphic artist, your nephew who took an art class in college, or your friend who loves to paint and draw. Book cover design is a ...

While book lovers tend to frown on books being defaced in any way,mystery author Krista Davis doesn’t just want you to read her Pen & Ink series—she wants you to draw on the covers. The series ...

Back Bay Books. The patient zero of flat women might be Bernadette, the heroine and cover star of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple, from 2012. On that cover, a woman’s face floats ...

His cover for the book shows two simple illustrations against a green backdrop. One is a human eye; the other is a fly's eye. It doesn't just say you're about to read a book about a guy who turns ...

Tintin Drawing Sold for €3.2 Million Is the World’s Most Expensive Comic Book Art The original cover design for Hergé’s “The Blue Lotus” spent decades tucked away in a drawer ...

As he prepared to draw the cover, Mr. Taylor read an incomplete manuscript, threw around different ideas and made several drafts before arriving on a final design with an editor, he said in a 2010 ...

This drawing, along with John Cohen’s candid photograph of Kerouac, taken in New York’s Chinatown in 1959, are among the 250 items featured in The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public ...