Eye-Catching Book Cover Design Needed

Freelancer.com creative contest — guaranteed prize of $25 USD. 1. Strategy: why the cover is the whole ballgame In this category the cover sells the book; the manuscript keeps the reader. Two facts from the competitor research drive every decision below: The whole category's covers are dated, busy, and hardware-store-looking. The bestselling anchor and its rivals are decades-old trade-book aesthetics. A clean, modern, confident cover is the single cheapest way to look like the obvious best choice on the page. We win on contrast, not by out-cluttering them. Two things must be readable at thumbn