But everything — the skin tones, text placement on the spine and front and back covers, the rich black background and cover lamination — all came out beautifully.

Image from Joel Friedlander's TheBookDesigner.com

Thanks Dawn, for submitting our cover and writing such an inspiring book!
Thanks, Joel, for our award!

D. August Baertlein's Synapse eBook and Sebastian and Hopscotch's Christmas Star paperbacks are now both published! Click on the book covers to check them out.

Click here to see more about the new cover for D. August Baertlein's upcoming eBook, Synapse. You'll find it by scrolling down to the Young Adult section.

I was lucky to get to do the cover illustration as well as its design, but D. August has done the real work — excellent writing. She's a longtime member of my online writing group and even her first draft blew me away with spot-on voices of three very different, very realistic main characters.