Saturday, February 27, 2016

Night Sky - a dark horse steps forward

"Night Sky" premade bookcover. $100. (Price includes typography setting your title and support text, and some minor image customization.)

An abstracted dark horse, steps out of mottled blue background.  Because it is abstract, this cover emphasizes the subject matter -- a horse.  It is suitable for horse stories, or horse-oriented mysteries or fantasy/paranormal.  The background evokes a night sky, perhaps a winter sky with large snow flakes, and a horse stepping out o the shadows. It would be great for a Christmas horse story.  The bright colors in particular indicate a festive element.  However, the darkness suggests a mystery -- whether it's the mystery of an unexpected gift, or the mystery of the talent of a dream horse, or an actual crime to be solved.  (This image could also be easily customized with different colors or a different background texture, to indicate other genres more strongly.)


Sunday, February 21, 2016

"Fall Guy" - Hard-boiled Thriller

"Fall Guy" premade bookcover. $100. (Price includes typography setting your title and support text, and some minor image customization.)

This is a retro-style cover, reminiscent of the 1950s.  A man with a gun stands over the body of a woman.  Did he kill her? Has he been framed? Or is he vowing revenge on the killer?  This cover is most suitable for hard-boiled crime or thrillers. Could, with the right title, ease into suspense.


Sunday, January 31, 2016

The Elements - evocative landscape

"The Elements" premade bookcover. $100. (Price includes typography setting your title and support text, and some minor image customization.)

This abstracted watercolor evokes mountains or rough seas and a blizzard sky.  It is suitable for stories of a challenging journey, whether nonfiction memoirs or novels of survival, or the inner journey of a poet.

Sing My Lady - dramatic retro

"Sing My Lady" premade bookcover. $100. (Price includes typography setting your title and support text, and some minor image customization.)

The font and stylings of this retro cover suggests the pulps and potboilers of the 1950s and 60s.  The bright colors are upbeat, but also a sense of dark and light in contrast.  The woman half in shadow, have in brightness.  Though the title suggests the woman is singing, a different title might suggest she is dancing, or screaming.  Whatever she's doing, it's with passion.  This cover would be appropriate to a dramatic story -- a thriller, a pot-boiler, or a show biz biography or mystery.  More than likely about a woman who is a performer. 

Song To The Sea - A brand-matched cover to Maid of the Sea

"Song To The Sea" premade bookcover. $100. (Price includes typography setting your title and support text, and some minor image customization.)

 This cover is branded to match "Maid of the Sea" -- as a sequel.  Both covers purchased at the same time for $150.

As with Maid of the Sea, this cover invokes the power of the sea, and it's connection with a young woman.  Suitable for historical, mainstream, regional, and paranormal stories where the magic is based in nature or female power.

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Montana Mustang - Western Action

"Montana Mustang" premade bookcover. $100. (Price includes typography setting your title and support text, and some minor image customization.)

The horse is already in motion as the rider mounts.  Silhouettes of horse and rider and mountains imply dusk or night time. The drop shadow on the figures, and the small "breakout" where the rider's hat is in front of the title, make the figures leap out of the image at the viewer.


Maid of the Sea; does the sea call her or does she call the sea?

"Maid of the Sea" premade bookcover. $100. (Price includes typography setting your title and support text, and some minor image customization.)

This cover invokes the power of the sea, and it's connection with a young woman.  Does the sea call to her, or does she call to it?  Suitable for historical, mainstream, regional, and paranormal stories where the magic is based in nature or female power.


NOTE: this cover has a potential sequel in the brand-matched cover Song to the Sea.