How I Designed the Cover of My Self-Published Book

Advice from a TV writer/author

You can’t judge a book by it’s cover, right?

Of course you can. That’s just something an author with a shitty book cover would say.

My self-published book, A Paper Orchestra, was just named one of Vulture’s “Best Comedy Books of 2024.” This is how I made the cover.

Coming up with ideas

Even as I was still writing my book, I began studying the covers of comp…