Last night I caught this "tweet" from Zadi Diaz, the amazing vlogger behind Epic Fu. I remember my first album (embarrassingly, it was Menudo), but not my first download. Do you? It made me think about how the web and digital music has both opened up music discovery, and yet how we may have lost som...

This photo comes from a site where my books have been the target of a good deal of critique this year, Erotica Cover Watch. They just posted a group hug post with some hot man candy, seen above. And, well, I believe all publicity is good publicity and the thing I'm most concerned with with my book c...

It is rare for a Bible cover to be illustrative of the content. Except for a few children's Bibles, most of the covers gracing the Holy Bible are reflective of the market: photos of coffee cups and flowers and faux leathers are the rage. So, it is unusual to see a well-designed cover that illustrate...

via Black Voices The bitch is back and this time, she's teaching lessons! Reality TV's most popular star Omarosa has signed a lucrative book deal with Phoenix Books to release her debut tome, 'The Bitch Switch: Knowing How To Turn It On and Off.' "I am thrilled to have my first book published and I ...

I created this cover (well except for van Gogh's contribution). You may use it!A few months ago when the Google Book Search API came out, I was among the first notice that GBS covers could be used to deck-out library catalogs (OPACs) with covers, potentially bypassing other providers, like Amazon an...

I created this cover (well except for van Gogh's contribution). You may use it!A few months ago when the Google Book Search API came out, I was among the first notice that GBS covers could be used to deck-out library catalogs (OPACs) with covers, potentially bypassing other providers, like Amazon an...

Adele Parks continues with her usual legs theme on the cover of her latest novel, tell me something, which is out at the end of this month. Yup, yet again the back of women's legs for the cover of a book. Elizabeth is a woman who dreamt of an Italian husband and lots of Italian children. She has the...

For the second installment of ridiculous book cover changes, I offer up This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes. How - on earth or in hell or in space or in the mind of anyone - is it a natural progression from Exhibit A (the original US hardcover) to Exhibit B (the US paperback reissue)?  ...

Casual visitors are often surprised to learn that LibraryThing members have contributed more than 800,000 covers, for use when Amazon doesn't have the right cover. It's time to make the most of this strength! I've added a five new features related to how LibraryThing handles covers. I hope you like ...

Smashing Magazine has a piece on Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks.  They write Book covers are hard to design and nice to look at. An effective book cover manages to catch human’s eye and convey the idea behind the book on one single page. However, it’s getting even harder: to make a bo...