I recently just finished designing a fun cover. The story is a dark comedy involving an unpublished author who is hired to translate a book. He hates the book and substitutes his own stories. When the book becomes a hit, things get out of control, and he kills of the author, the publisher, and the publisher's other best-selling author.

Since we are traditionally publishing this book, the design gets to be more fun and complicated for me. The chapter openings in the interior of the book features a typewriter with a pool of blood slowly leaking out from the back. The blood pool gets bigger and bigger as the book progresses.

Anyway, I came up with a variety of front cover designs for our office to vote on.

The stock photo of the post-it guy was a vector graphic, and I didn't want the cover to have an illustration. So after failing miserably to glom other stock photos, I decided to go practical and take a photo of my own.