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Book Cover Design Brief

This book tries to sound the ALARM that we will lose our democracy unless we force Democrats to adopt the plan inside this book. I designed a mock cover (attached) but I am concerned it would not look good in the Thumbnail view that most people would see it as they're scrolling down Amazon or Goodreads. The final title for the book is: Last Chance to Save American Democracy. The current subtitle is: The Only Plan to Stop the 2022 Republican Coup & Revive Our Nation -- but it’s a work in progress.The subtitle is still working progress but it's really not that important and can be small.
STYLE CONSIDERATIONS:
(1) The title should be on 5 separate lines: Last; Chance; To Save; American; Democracy
(2) The title could be in white fat letters except for maybe one line that says “To Save” which could be in the blue color of the Democratic Party-- or maybe American democracy could be in blue. We may have to try a few variations of that.
(3) I picked the red in the mock cover to connotate an emergency,
(4) I liked big bold fat font going across the full page so that it looks like a major warning sign, though note I was unable to extend each line flush all the way to the right which I think would have been better.
(5) I liked it better flush to left instead of centered.
(6) I picked the Lincoln memorial + a crowd for my mock cover, but a picture of a huge crowd protesting with a picture of the United States Congress in the background would be much better. DO NOT USE LINCOLN. Obviously I would need it to be an open license or something I can pay a small amount to get. If you can find that picture then the page should probably be colored in red with Congress in white.
I got the idea 4 giant title from the book “never a lovely so real” and Runciamn’s “How Democracy Ends” or “Black Swans” by Eve Babitz though I hate that font)
I love Ibram Kendi’s “stamped from the beginning” cover so if you find a picture of Congress and a protest crowd instead of painting it red you could have just a couple of jagged red stripes going across it like that cover.
I love the 3-D effect of Donna tartt's cover for The Goldfinch where it looks like a page is being ripped. That effect could be done the words American democracy like it's being torn off the page UPDATE: MANY DESIGNERS TRIED THAT & IT DID NOT WORK AT ALL.
Note that this book will be submitted to many award competitions, so please give me an award-winning cover.
I like how the title of the book The Unelected by James Copeland has the words starting to fade. I don't like the ladder on it, but maybe 'American democracy' could fade like that.

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