If you’ve read our advice here on Shelfbuzz, you realize that authors who are not trained graphic designers should not be designing their own book covers. Why? Because non-professional covers hurt your sales. A professional cover can increase books sales by over 300%.

So where do you find a professional designer?

The best way is to network with other indie authors who have professional covers and ask who their designer was.

If you are lazy, here are a few shortcuts. Note: Shelfbuzz is not affiliated with these designers and does not receive any sort of affiliate commission for listing them.

Click the names to visit each designer’s site.

	Scarlett Rugers
	Kit Foster
	Derek Murphy
	Carl Graves

P.S. Smashwords, a popular indiepub distributor also compiles a list of cover design artists. We’ve browsed through the portfolios of the ‘designers’ on this list and were not impressed by their work. Stick to the professionals listed above.

Last updated by Shelfbuzz Trixie at March 28, 2013.