Ruth Anna Evans

Author and Cover Designer

Ruth Anna Evans is a horror book cover designer, writer, and anthologizer and who lives in the heart of all that is sinister: the American Midwest.

Ruth Anna works with indie authors across the horror community to design their covers in a professional and polished way.

She has self-published the horror collections OH FUCK OH FUCK IT HURTS and No One Can Help You: Tales of Lost Children and Other Nightmares. She is the editor of Ooze: Little Bursts of Body Horror, two spooky novellas, and medical horror novella, Against Medical Advice. Ruth Anna loves horror that hurts.

June 14, 2025

Horror Book Cover Design with Ruth Anna Evans

In this episode of Killer Pros, Tanner chats with cover designer Ruth Anna Evans about all aspects of cover design. They discuss Ruth's career, her approach to designing book covers, and the intricacies of working with a cover designer, including licensing. Ruth shares her journey from designing covers for her own books due to budget constraints to becoming a professional cover designer. The conversation also covers the importance of typography, lighting, texture, and focal points in creating ef...

Guest: Ruth Anna Evans

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