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Book Cover Design Brief

My goal is to choose a submission ready cover for my self-published book. I am looking for an illustrative design that coordinates with the mood of the book, and with current market expectations.

Attached for context are three prior drafts of the cover. My desire is for something more illustrative (like the first one) than obvious AI, like the other two. The story takes place in a fictional town in the Arizona desert. The landscape is a big part of the story. So I would like the mood and color palette to reflect the desert. Reflect; not be a photorealistic depiction of desert. It need not portray the desert explicitly at all, if the design can invoke it. The book does have a fantasy story, but I do not want a "fantasy book" cover. Something more contemporary in design and font choices.

For example, this cover invokes the sea: https://www.amazon.com/Long-Petal-Sea-Novel/dp/198482015X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wpAT87WHngEIDgWQtfjinYXSQ3a8-6QqNdJBMYCnOGslkhB61mbaKsrCCYQbWdDt.OdGaaQaYEPi8nG7E3MzPgMG0OvwodeaYBzMIPnxt2Cs&qid=1736061525&sr=8-1

This one invokes a forest at night: https://www.amazon.com/Where-Forest-Meets-Glendy-Vanderah/dp/1503904911/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3KSSKSYURMVCC&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NIeTE4lSe9YwVWpfBnzQF-TX0Mith-q3SDA8JWysp-avAanM4BASsZemmg6nIaTAy8dvKTsxjsoxFOPi1Nef-rXc__a0gPuBkkXYBl4lfo40ojGFBgeeV_toKA-GVO_CDFML84Pvk8g0_NjdLakIujCLccGc9fIhoLHAAPxdNq7X8Wc2xm8RWitkqGLcMQ1JLEnUG3rq6v2m167IfwBU7EQAyBMn8K8mlpWgTvwbx7A.J9t7B1s1wHpHTliODT_68yoRZXvLlGf_b_Xn57K7TNE&dib_tag=se&keywords=where+the+forest+meets+the+stars&qid=1736061591&sprefix=where+the+for%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1

And this one a different take on the sea: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Impossible-Novel-Matt-Haig/dp/0593489276/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2X3IY09XXZ54X&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4F9cMgsf8VmWVQa_KnS8Dd_xS1gVSGx-0-cmkjzmCxPSA3uUHVEgSNDAlKd972Yh22FtzsH4OrZGo6VfV2csaEEV9BByYMS67sfKdY9i4pJrBzAW-0fhAGqj-gUlO2--4JbxYoPVcbeI4XI1DgJkPoLtiqs8WnB6SBWNlWXo_I0KPFyJgSwu9QGW3EvrFmtzYjw64OQYPoWqH0OxZXRGxCXDDasWQEaf0q9jpdc24B0.EwGzLGS-EfZBnxs6YTDliyWHE5xuiarHUmO-5xXnFxc&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+life+impossible+matt+haig&qid=1736061645&sprefix=the+life+impo%2Caps%2C193&sr=8-1

(By the way, my book with its current cover, which I hate, is at:)
https://www.amazon.com/Guardians-Ley-Lines-Greg-Maxfield/dp/B0D7VL9Y2K/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1XEFBI996P3NR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wqEcXmwF0CESWcZcz6tqANR3KmPHFSc7YAwLXTHOH3GpC0pHNM4zuUgRBZGNicJrQcIPa8ctHskfVC53Lo8w55ss7o98ae_-gvOFNty1WsnT6HgnPpftzKej1eQM7IvqScuRL-gaHC8DKs-1qwqoAJxfOm1DZzX1V2PxXxTNZ571pB-R6C0r1AeBf1d9MYlaQLXWcHQSeqaHvG1Pz-3XcqLfoCDkPZZWZEx849kZEDs.VYFryymUsxpVjnua-HiluLqKpbEQR_KwQnR2rotP-B0&dib_tag=se&keywords=guardians+of+the+ley+lines&qid=1736061711&s=books&sprefix=guardians+of+the+ley+line%2Cstripbooks%2C161&sr=1-1

Target Market(s)

25-80 year old, professional females.

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Font styles to use

Other font styles liked:

• For the Author Name, use upper and lower case (i.e., Greg Maxfield), with Abadi font, if possible. In the title, make "of the" lower case.

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Look and feel

Each slider illustrates characteristics of the customer's brand and the style your logo design should communicate.

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Requirements

Must have

• Silver Sage logo on the spine, with the words "Silver Sage" beneath it.

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Files

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