Nick Castle - Designer
I am a book cover designer with 20 years experience. I have designed everything from thrillers, crime books and illustrated womens fiction.
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Overview
Iam a freelance book cover designer with over ten years experience of working with most of the UK book publishers and many in the USA. I started at HarperCollins where I worked for 8 years and I went to Orion Books where I became art director. Since then I have built up Nick Castle Design to be a successful name and source of quality book cover design.
I have worked on many mass market fiction covers including titles by Robert Ludlum, Michael Dobbs and Michael Robotham. I have designed the covers for New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz since 2009 and I have also worked on a number of books by Nora Roberts. I have worked on many saga and Illustrated women's fiction titles and also worked in literary fiction designing for EL Doctorow and Iain Banks.
I have worked on many mass market fiction covers including titles by Robert Ludlum, Michael Dobbs and Michael Robotham. I have designed the covers for New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz since 2009 and I have also worked on a number of books by Nora Roberts. I have worked on many saga and Illustrated women's fiction titles and also worked in literary fiction designing for EL Doctorow and Iain Banks.
Services
Languages
English
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Fiction
Classics
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Mystery & Crime
Romance
Science Fiction
Thriller & Suspense
Women's Fiction
Young Adult
Awards
- D&AD AWARD
Work experience
SENIOR DESIGNER
Self-employed
April, 2012
–
August, 2014
(over 2 years)
I worked in the Little Brown design department where I designed covers for a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles.
Senior designer
HarperCollins
June, 2011
–
April, 2012
(10 months)
Portfolio (42 selected works)
My Hands Are Tied (DCI Morton Book 7)
Campbell, Sean
Deep State
Chris Hauty
Dragonmark (The Dark-Hunter World)
Kenyon, Sherrilyn
The Moth Catcher: A Vera Stanhope Mystery
Cleeves, Ann
Cliff's Edge (Solace Island)
Tilly, Meg
Smoke in the Glass: Immortals' Blood Book One
Humphreys, Chris
On Renfrew Street (Amherst Island Trilogy Book 2)
Hewitt, Kate
Death In Smoke (The Cape Mysteries Book 2)
Elle, Barbara
Killing Reverend Sterling
Awbrey,Peter
Blue Planet
O'Reilly, Jane
Untitled Mercy Thompson 12
Briggs, Patricia
Trio: The Redemption Code
Woods, Bill
The Nearness of You
Domingo, Sareeta
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Croft, Elle
The Old Block: A Novel
Piper, Mark Scott
The Glass Ocean
Lori Baker
The Glass Ocean is a story of becoming. Flamehaired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, newly orphaned Carlotta Dell'oro recounts the lives of her parents - solitary glassmaker Leonardo Dell'oro and beautiful, unreachable Clotilde Girard - and discovers in their loves and losses, their omissions and obsessions, the circumstances of her abandonment and the weight of her inheritance. With a master a... read more
Sweetland
Michael Crummey
For twelve generations, the inhabitants of a remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now, in the second decade of the 21st century, they are facing resettlement. They have each been offered a generous compensation package to leave the island for good. There’s just one proviso: everyone must go.Gradually, all of the residents surrender to the inevitable. All of the residents... read more
Who's Afraid?
Maria Lewis
Meet Tommi Grayson: she's all bark . . . and all bite'It was like my wolf had been there all along, waiting for me to tap its hand and step into the ring . . .'Tommi Grayson's never exactly been a normal girl. Bright blue hair, a mysterious past and barely controlled rage issues have a way of making a woman stand out. Yet she's never come close to guessing who she really is . . . When her moth... read more
When the War Is Over
Barbara Fox
Gwenda and Douglas Brady were among the millions of British children sent to live with new families for their own safety during the Second World War, leaving behind their parents, their friends and all that felt familiar and safe. Evacuation could be a scary experience, but five-year-old Gwenda and her brother were lucky enough to be housed with a kindly schoolmaster and his wife, and soon the... read more
The Collector of Lost Things
Jeremy Page
I felt the worlds of ocean and ice were meeting in a frontier of rage, as if the Earth had torn in two along this line.This was a place if there ever was a place, where you could disappear.The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding remains of the by now extinct Great Auk. He joins a regular hunting ship, but the crew an... read more
Stored in Whitehall's archives are everything from blood-chilling warnings of imminent nuclear attack to comical details of daily life in the corridors of power. Concerned notes from ministers on the subject of the Heir to the Throne's potential brainwashing by Welsh terrorists are shelved alongside worries about housemaids 'on the wobble' at Chequers.Detailed and surprising plans for royal fu... read more
A LITTLE GIRL STOLEN. A WOMAN FOUND DEAD. WHO IS NEXT? Six-year-old Lola Jade Harper is taken from her bedroom. Her mother is distraught. She is convinced her estranged husband, Gavin Harper, has abducted their daughter.Detective Rachel Prince is leading the investigation but is soon out of her depth as she searches for the most high-profile missing child in the country. To uncover the truth a... read more
‘WOW, WHAT AN AMAZING BOOK!!!! … From the very start to the last page you're hooked!' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars‘Let me out! Please ...’ My tiny fists pound the door, but my voice reverberates off the stone walls and hangs in the air as if suspended by spider’s webs. No one comes...Years later, a woman is found face-down in a pool of blood. Detective Lottie Parker is called to the remote farm... read more
Dying Day: Absolutely gripping serial killer fiction
Stephen Edger
Some mistakes you live with. Others you die for…When the body of a young woman is found in the boot of an abandoned car near the Southampton Docks, Detective Kate Matthews is ordered to stay well away from the scene.Exactly a year ago, Amy, a junior detective on Kate’s team, was murdered when she was sent undercover to catch a serial killer targeting young girls. Kate never forgave herself for... read more
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Watching You (Joe O'loughlin 6)
Michael Robotham
Promise Not To Tell
Jayne Ann Krentz
A broken promise reveals a terrifying legacy in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of When All the Girls Have Gone.A painter of fiery, nightmarish visions throws herself into the sea - but she leaves her secrets behind . . . Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire bu... read more
Private Scandals
Nora Roberts
Nick has 54 reviews
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I’ve worked with Nick before and once again I’ve found him very professional, punctual and most importantly outstanding in the design field. He brings a lot of experience to his design jobs and it shows when he produces the initial designs. I can’t recommend him enough.
Mark Yarwood, December 2021
It was a pleasure to work with Nick. Once I saw the first draft, I knew I had made the right choice for my cover.
Communication and instruction was easy, and the final product was great.
Highly recommend.
Adrian Kent, December 2021
This was my first time working with Nick for my book covers. He did a fantastic job in interpreting my vision for the cover, and communication was remarkable. Professional, considerate to the changes I requested, and finished ahead of schedule.
I couldn't recommend Nick enough!
N. J. Lujan, December 2021
This is my third time working with Nick for my book covers. Once again, he has done a fantastic job in interpreting my vision for the covers. I plan to write a fair few more books in my DC Daniel Hudson crime series, and would love to have Nick work on all subsequent work.
I couldn't recommend Nick enough.
Jason Vowles, November 2021
I have worked with Nick for the first time and I am delighted with the outcome. The first draft of the cover design was close to the brief, and he was able to amend it in short order. It is now exactly what I wanted. I would strongly recommend his work.
David Gelernter, November 2021
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