As a text/cover designer in the fast-paced production environment that was America Star Books, I typically formatted five author manuscripts each day. In roughly 30 minutes I created cover images comprised largely of free stock photography, sometimes without any sense of direction from the authors. My objective was to present the potential reader with a quick visual summary of the book's contents, that I had gathered, more often than not, by the book's synopsis alone. A few of the hundreds of covers I designed during my time there are featured below.