Award-winning
Book Design

Covers and interiors by Christian Storm that sell books and elevate stories — 20+ years of experience

Book cover of the thriller "Truth Stays Buried" by Alexia Boland Herrick, featuring the title literally hidden under ferns
Book cover of AI/legal thriller "Questioner" by Steve C. Posner, featuring the letter Q made from a zero and a one
Book cover of sci-fi novel "Mindstock" by Richard Yonck featuring a man standing in front of a gigantically tall tower
Book cover of "The Ghost Writers Club" by Cody Wayne Morris featuring a bulletin board with colorful notes and paper
Book cover of "Epic Execution" by David Kenney featuring a rocket launching
Book cover of 'Soulful Return' by Fidelis O. Mkparu, featuring a vintage suitcase overgrown with vines and green leaves.
Book cover of the dystopian novel 'The Exiled' by Jordan Lowery, with large text showing the title, filled with cityscapes, fire, smoke, and a tropical beach scene.
Book cover of the horror novel "The Dark Thing" by John Ashley featuring demonic hands coming out of a smoking book reaching for a butterfly.
Book covers for the novellas, "The Crash," and "Black and Blue" by Tom Bestwick. Each features a different flower.
Book cover for thriller "Thanks for Watching" by Kate Cavanaugh, featuring a broken screen with a island mansion background.
Book cover for LGBTQ young adult novel "There's a Badge for That" by Relly Moring, featuring Scout-like embroidered patches with heart, razor blade and medicine pills on a denim background.
Book cover for "Precious Friends" by Frank Spinelli, featuring a handsome man with dark sunglasses in pool near a martini.

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Mystery • Thriller • Sci-Fi • Dystopian • Horror • Fantasy

Literary and Trade Fiction • Young Adult • Memoir

Nonfiction • Academic • Business

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Book cover with a floral design featuring pink, blue, peach, black, and white lotus flowers and green leaves arranged vertically in the center. The title "When Karma Comes Calling" is in large white letters, with the author's name "Tom Bestwick" at t
Book cover titled 'Blood Fed' by M.W. Davis featuring a red sunset scene with a house, boat, and large trees.
Book cover for 'Savage Remorse' by Macklin Grey featuring a military helicopter on a red textured background.
Dystopian
Book cover titled 'The Black Raven's Song' by Macklin Grey, depicting a green-toned ship through a rifle scope on a black dotted background.
Three startup guidebooks on finance, sales, and technology with colorful covers, placed against a light blue background.
Cover, interior, ebook
Book cover titled 'Bloom: Crisis in the Mediterranean Sea' by Andrea Morani, featuring images of jellyfish underwater with large, colorful text.
Cover of the book titled "The Blind Devotion of Imogene" by David Putnam, featuring an illustrated woman with a pacifier, wearing a hat adorned with a flower, smoke rising, and a green background.
Book titled "The Emotional Intelligence and Resilience Handbook" by Shirita Nash, featuring a colorful tissue paper brain illustration on a light blue background.
A book cover titled "A Murder in Zion" by Nicole Maggi featuring a person with a backpack walking through a river in a canyon with cliffs and a cloudy sky.
Sci-fi
Book titled 'The Great American Healthcare Heist' by Chris Deacon, featuring a cover with a headset intertwined with a stack of US dollar bills.
Book cover titled 'SOL' by B.F. James with a black hole surrounded by glowing light and cosmic patterns.
A book titled "The Shattered Star" by Skyler R. Ostrom, with a cover illustration of a starry night sky, mountains, and a person in a spacesuit walking through glowing blue grass.
Book cover titled "Junkie Love" with a cracked purple heart being injected by a syringe. Subtitle: "A Story of Recovery and Redemption" by Joe Clifford.
Book cover for 'Killing Emilee' by Elle Wallace with purple background, featuring a tennis racket, crumpled paper, lipstick, a shoe, a crumpled note with 'A Novel', broken glass, crumbled paper, and a car key.
Book cover titled 'pivot & persevere' by Natalie Boyatt, featuring a woman in a business suit climbing a mountain with a tray of colorful drinks in her hand against a mountainous landscape background.
A book cover titled 'Grandma's Little Secret' by Becca C. Smith, showing an old bathtub with blood and a pair of hair on top, in a dark room with a window.
Book cover for 'The Enari Chronicles' featuring a futuristic cityscape, a man in a suit, a woman with green hair, an alien creature, and a spaceship, with the author's name Ellie Mae Carter at the top.
Book cover for 'Silver' by Dylan Thyer, featuring a dark, eerie landscape with leafless trees, a large white moon, and red and black colors.
Book cover titled "A Fatal Funeral: A Wallace Island Mystery" by CD Couch, featuring an illustrated graveyard scene with tombstones, trees, and a bright, colorful background.
Cover of a book titled "Nocturnal" by K. M. Hubbard, featuring a futuristic landscape with industrial structures and communication towers in a dark blue tone.
Book cover titled "Terror for Profit" by Martin J. Gallagher, showing a bomb made of dollar bills with a lit fuse.
Book cover titled 'The Silo,' a novel by G. S. Heist, featuring a silo and dark, cloudy sky.
Book cover for thriller 'The Rewired' by Peter Szabo, featuring a red background with a geometric pyramid design.
A book titled "The Unfinished Storm" by Jackie Ahn features a cover with a large ocean wave and a stormy sky with clouds, with the phrase "She's still here" on the bottom right.
Book cover for thriller "The Echo of Revenge" by Jesse Palmer, described as a dark, twisty drama, set against a solid red background.
Book cover for sci-fi novel, "A Writ from the All Things" by Reynold Starnes features a cosmic background with stars, planets, and nebulae in shades of purple, blue, and black.
Book cover for horror novel "A Nest of Broken Bones" by John Ashley, featuring a black background, red smoke, and a cracked eggshell with a fetus inside, surrounded by scattered bones.
Book cover for nonfiction book, 'Financial Freedom' by Ashlyne Pettigrew, featuring graphics of money, a laptop with a pie chart, and icons representing various financial aspects, on a green background.
Book cover for sci-fi novel, 'Robot Detective' by Shawn Goodman featuring a black silhouette of a robot detective wearing a fedora hat, with a robotic hand holding a cigarette, against a gray speckled background.
Book cover for thriller 'The House Rules' by Calvin Naraghi. The cover features a dark, spooky house on a hill with a figure in front, against a backdrop of forest and night sky.
Book cover for nonfiction book, 'Griefly Speaking' by Sonya Lorelle and Katherine M. Atkins, with a colorful watercolor background.
Book cover for YA fantasy novel 'Whisperoot' by Tiffini Johnson features an illustration of a girl in a red coat walking along a forest path surrounded by lush foliage.

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Multiple digital devices displaying a book cover titled "Truth Stays Buried" by Alexia Boland Herrick, featuring red and black fern leaves over a background of newspaper pages.

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Print design package includes ebook cover, paperback cover, hardcover dust jacket, plus marketing and social media assets

Print + Digital

Book cover, promotional materials, and pages of the book titled 'Truth Stays Buried' by Alexia Boland Herrick, featuring a red fern leaf pattern, with digital and printed versions displayed.

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Christian Storm

Your Story Deserves a Showstopper

Premium cover and interior design for every path to publication — whether you’re a major publisher, hybrid press, or independent author, I’d love to help bring your book to life.

Hi, I’m Christian Storm, an award-winning art director, cover and book designer, and typesetter with 20+ years of experience in publishing. A former Senior Designer at Penguin, I’ve created international best-sellers that have sold more than 6 million copies, been turned into feature films, and a Netflix series. I’ve worked with Big Five publishers, independent and hybrid presses, and solo authors.

Let’s create a cover (and interior) that does your story justice.

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What Clients Say

  • Book cover titled 'Truth Stays Buried: A Thriller' by Alexia Boland Herrick, with red fern leaves surrounding the title, and a background of newspaper pages.

    "If you’re looking for a talented, professional and experienced designer then look no further. Absolutely wonderful experience working with Christian from start to finish, with the results of his designs tailored and quality. Highly recommended."

    — Alexa , author of “Truth Stays Buried”

  • Book cover for 'Mind Stock' by Richard Yonck featuring a person standing on a rooftop looking at the city skyline with a sunset sky and skyscraper.

    "Christian totally exceeded my expectations in designing the cover and interior for my novel, 'Mindstock.' I came into this project with some hopes and a few rough ideas, and he totally took it to the next level. Along the way, he’s been patient and understanding, helping me to get my head around aspects of the process I wasn’t familiar with. The end result is a design that all of my early readers have been blown away by— it’s a gorgeous cover!"

    — Richard Yonk, author of “MINDSTOCK”

  • Book cover for 'Saint of Lost Souls' by Trish McGarrahan, featuring a blue background with a gold chain and a small medallion of a saint.

    "Christian is a wonderful designer — he not only designed my beautiful book cover, he also designed the print and e-book interior files and social media graphics. l've already received compliments on the ‘absolutely gorgeous’ cover, and I couldn't be more pleased. And I'm thrilled that my print book sales are exceeding my e-book sales. If you're looking for a talented, creative, professional designer, I highly recommend Christian!”

    — Tish McGarrahan , author of “Saint of Lost Souls”

  • Colorful embroidered patches on denim; one with a speech bubble saying "There's a Bad G" above a round patch with a broken heart, pill, hot dog, and pills.

    “My experience with Christian could not have been better! He went above and beyond for me, including offering valuable advice when I asked for his opinion. I went into the project with little for him to go on, and he took my inspiration photos and came up with something even better than I had imagined. I would not hesitate to recommend Christian to others looking for a creative cover, and a friendly but professional working relationship.”

    — Relly Moring, author of “There’s a Badge for That”

  • Book cover for "Silver" by Dylan Thyer, featuring a large white moon with dark, leafless trees in the foreground against a red and black background.

    "Working with Christian is easy, and exciting. Each time I received a new batch of documents I was seeing my first novel come to life in ways that I hadn't dreamed of. He set the standards sky high for excellent work, and I look forward to working with him again."

    — Dylan Thyer, author of “Silver”

  • Cover of a book titled 'The Emotional Intelligence and Resilience Handbook' by Shirita Nash, featuring a colorful layered brain illustration on a light blue background.

    "I highly recommend him. Beautiful results and great quality!

    — Shirita Nash, author of “The Emotional Intelligence Handbook”

  • Book cover titled 'Whisper of the Wings: 12 Lessons Revealed by the Butterfly Life Cycle' by Karmon Miller Hill, featuring a butterfly perched on a pink flower against a blue background.

    “Christian was AWESOME to work with. He provided a beautiful paperback cover (front, back, spine), ebook cover, and social media files. He was very professional and super easy to work with. He provided some great cover options for me to choose from. I would work with him again in the future. Thank you for a great experience.”

    — Karmon Hill, author of “Whisper of Wings”

  • Book cover for 'The Quarry' by John Cacciatore, featuring a red and black background with silhouettes of trees and a large excavator bucket.

    "Christian is an incredibly talented artist who truly wants wants best for your book. When he says he'll tweak the project until you're satisfied, he means it! We interacted often until the project was completed. To top it off, he's also just a really nice person."

    — John Cacciatore, author of “The Quarry”

  • Book cover titled 'Pivot & Persevere' with a woman in a business suit climbing a mountain, holding a belt with colorful juice boxes, with mountains in the background and a rainbow effect in the sky, authored by Natalie Boyatt.

    "Christian was such a major find! He is the best to work with! He was able to take my vision and breathe life into it in a way I couldn't have imagined! I will definitely use him with my future projects!"

    — Natalie Boyatt, founder and CEO of Bevee™ and author of “Pivot & Persevere”

  • Book cover for 'All Very from the Telling' by Reynold Starnes, featuring a cosmic background with planets and stars in shades of purple and blue, with stylized white text.

    "Christian is an excellent cover designer. He is reliable, skilled, and timely. I have worked with several designers and recommend Christian Storm. He will design the cover for my next book."

    — Reynold Starnes, author of “A Writ from the All Thing”

  • Book cover titled 'Blood Fried' by M. W. Davis, set in a swamp with large Spanish moss-covered trees, a house, a boat, and a red-orange sunset sky, with the words 'A Lowcountry Thriller' at the top.

    “I can't say enough nice things about working with Christian. Professional, responsive, and open to suggestions. And best of all, a creative mind that captured the feel of my book.”

    — Matthew Davis, author of “Blood Feud” and “The Drifters”

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