The design of a cover is an exciting process, and I’m sharing a peek behind the scenes. In this article, the cover in question is Nimrod Squad, my tale of a dysfunctional crew of bounty hunters.

The cover started off as a premade designed by J Caleb Clark of J Caleb Design, whose fantastic work I can’t recommend enough. What’s a premade? It’s when the designer creates a cover for a specific genre, puts mock title and author fonts on it, and then presents it for sale. It allows them to work fr...