Book Cover Design for Chic Lit Novel: Marriage Material

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Design for your book cover

Book Title

Marriage Material

About Us

Light, fun book currently available on Amazon Kindle. It is an ebook and the intention is to improve the cover and help it become a best seller, it will also be available on print.

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Requirements_2.doc

Industries

romance, chick lit, Kindle, CreateSpace

Contest summary

Light, fun book currently available on Amazon Kindle. It is an ebook and the intention is to improve the cover and help it become a best seller, it will also be available on print.

Target Audience

Target audience is women and although the book has a certain aspirational element, it is mostly escapism. It is a 'feel good' book where the main character has obstacles to overcome, and she eventually ends up with the guy.

Dimensions of the book cover

I need someone familiar with Createspace. My book should be in 6” X 9” and is 228 pages in length. https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/CoverPDF.jsp.
These are the general requirements createspace require:
1) must be a single PDF that includes the back cover, spine, and front cover as one image
2) Measured exactly to the book's trim size, spine width, and .125" bleed
3) Centered horizontally and vertically
4) Minimum Cover Width: Bleed + Back Cover Trim Size + Spine Width + Front Cover Trim Size + Bleed

Example calculation at 6" x 9" cover with 60 B&W pages on white paper: 0.125" + 6" + 0.135" + 6" + .125" = 12.385"

5)Minimum Cover Height: Bleed + Book Height Trim Size + Bleed
Example calculation: 6" x 9": 0.125" + 9" + .125" = 9.25"
6) Barcode - Createspace will place your ISBN barcode in a 2" by 1.2" white box in the lower right-hand corner of the book's back cover.
Images or text in the barcode location will be covered when the book is printed. Make sure no important elements appear where the barcode will be placed.
7)Images - Images may be CMYK or RGB color. All images should be sized at 100%, flattened to one layer and placed in your document at a minimum resolution of 300 DPI.
8) spine - Allow for 0.0625" variance on either side of the fold lines for the cover. For example, if the spine width is 1", the text should be no wider than 0.875". Because of this variance, avoid hard edges or lines that end on the fold line.
9) Safe zone - Text and images must be at least .125" inside the trim lines to ensure that no live elements are cut during the bookmaking process.

What values should our book cover communicate

Masculine

Feminine

Young

Mature

Modern

Classic

Flashy

Reserved

Luxurious

Economic

Simple

Complex

Book Cover design created by professional graphic designer Jorge Sanchez

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Jorge Sanchez

United States

hello- i'm j o r g e -I will not bore you like a used car salesmen trying to sell you an old rust bucket like if it was new. I am an artist and a graphic designer. I attended the SCAD, and also the art institute university of miami. My work will speak for its self, more than i can ever say , so lets begin ----->