book cover art

"The Opening Salvo: Dick Winchester Book 1" by Stephen A. Roddewig

Another incredible experience working with author Stephen A. Roddewig to design the cover art for his book "The Opening Salvo", book one of its series. 

This novel is a perfect mix of action, comedy, and true originality— all things I worked to achieve with its cover design. We have our hero Dick Winchester en route for a food delivery in the middle of a shoot-out car chase. Meanwhile, there's a blissfully aware pedestrian walking between flying bullets in the background, consumed by their device—a detail that would irk our protagonist. 

Altogether, I delivered cover art for paperback, eBook, and audiobook, as well as content for Roddewig's social media and author website.

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Kindle eBook Cover

Audiobook Cover

Website Graphics:

"A Bloody Business" by Stephen A. Roddewig

I had the pleasure of working with author Stephen A. Roddewig to design the cover art for his book "A Bloody Business". 

After reading Roddewig's thriller, I decided that a digitally painted cover design would be the best choice to represent the book's tagline of "history meets comedy meets hitman", mixing the distressed texture of the background with the photo-realistic revolver and hand (missing a pinky finger). The blood and smoke on the front also serve to draw the reader's eyes to the content of the back cover.

Altogether, I delivered cover art for paperback, eBook, and audiobook, as well as content for Roddewig's social media and author website.

Medium:

Kindle eBook Cover

Audiobook Cover

Website Graphics:

Testimonial:

"Brigitte did an incredible job on this cover. This was the first time working on a book cover for both parties, and she put in the extra effort to make it a success: from reading the book in its entirety so she could better capture its essence to developing mockups when I didn't have a direction picked out to taking every edit, big and small, to ensure the final product drew the eye and stayed true to the contents within. 

She also worked with me to convert that cover art into various promotional images for my author site and social media, which really help drive the pitch on the book's dedicated landing page (stephenaroddewig.com/a-bloody-business/). Rest assured, I know where I am going for all future cover projects."

STEPHEN A. RODDEWIG
Author