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Cathi Stevenson

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Since starting my own business, I have created more than 2000 book covers for large, traditional publishing organizations; small presses and indie publishers. My clients have been featured in numerous high-profile media sources including Oprah, 48-Hours, People Magazine and the Today show. I'm closely supervised by a small herd of rescue animals including two very large dogs, a cat that I'm not sure likes me very much, and a three-pound bunny who runs the whole show. When I'm not designing book covers I'm usually working on newsletters, infographics, signage and posters, or writing articles.

I wrote two ebooks back in the early 2000s. One stayed on the publisher's best sellers' list for a year.

I was very blessed to be able to include a chapt
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Is Book Cover Design as Important for Nonfiction as it is for Fiction?

YYes. And possibly even more so for indie authors producing nonfiction titles.

Regardless of the book, the book cover is an essential marketing tool. Perhaps the most essential marketing tool. Current data, specifically on book covers and sales, is hard to come by, but plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests that cover design influences buyers greatly.

In the late ’90s, Penguin redesigned covers for i Read more of this blog post »
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