Book Designer Cover Design Award

A Turbulent Mind won Joel Friedlander’s Cover Design Award


I released A Turbulent Mind: A Poetry Collection of a Mother’s Journey with Alzheimer’s last year, and submitted it to Joel Friedlander’s monthly cover design award. He reviews and provides feedback oral of the submitted fiction and nonfiction covers, and chooses one fiction and one nonfiction winner. Last month, my poetry collection was chosen as the nonfiction winner.

Cover Design Award Winner

I searched for days to find a cover image that adequately conveyed the book’s Turbulent title and cover designer Jessica Bell chose a fabulous collection of fonts to finish the book’s cover. She also added a few other elements to the cover image to provide it with a more cohesive look and feel. As soon as I saw it, I fell in love.


If you want to get feedback on your cover design, why not submit your fiction or nonfiction cover to Joel’s monthly cover competition to get his feedback.

Lots of e-books are being published every month. Every one of those e-books has to have a book cover of some kind. And even though it’s a bit of an anachronism to even call them “book covers” since there is no physical book and therefore no book cover at all, we seem to have agreed on the term. If a collection of digital music files can have an album cover, I suppose a collection of digital text files can have a book cover. ~ Joel Friedlander

Joel’s cover design award is great way to get some professional feedback on what’s striking and what has missed the mark in your cover design.