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Dream High - Ebook

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YA Fantasy Series

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Dramatic book cover winner This is for an adventure book for young people. I love how the wolf's eyes survey the Nordic landscape.

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All the Dead Seas Book Cover DesignHorror YA

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Book cover for “Inte som du tror” by Anna Karlsson Inte som du tror (translated from Swedish "Not as you think") is a story that mainly takes place in a school, about two girls with ages around 13 years old.It talks about how the two girls deal with each other and how their attitudes may hide more severe and private problems.One of the important details of the story is the finding of an old diary written in the 19th century by a girl of the same age. This diary inspires one the girls to start reading the Bible and pray to God for the other one. That is why I placed one of the main characters as a central point of the cover, holding an old book, while the other girl is seen on the top almost hidden in the middle of her long blonde hair.As the target group for this book will be teens but also adults, the author didn’t want it to signal teen’s fiction too much.

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Elegant book cover for YA novel I designed this book cover for a young adult (YA) fiction contest. The brief was to show a heart and a clock in a vintage style. I used old etching illustrations and overlaid them over the portrait of a young teenage girl. I wanted the design to appeal to teenagers and young adults, and show both a romance and fantasy / time travel edge to the story.

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Book covers for “Here” and “There” by D.G.Swank These designs were a layout proposal and have never been published.They were created for a YA dystopian romance set in parallel universes. The author wanted to have that sense of duality represented in the design, but in a way that it would be completely clear that the first book was set in our current universe, and the second one in a dystopian universe at the same place. As one of the details from this dystopian universe was that all trees were dead, I used the image of two massive trees as the main focal point. They helped to represent the differences between those two worlds, also intensified by the different color schemes.The poses of the girl (main character in the story) also reinforce the titles of each book: a static pose for “Here” and a moving/running pose for “There”.

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Book cover for “Rummet innanför” by Anna Karlsson “Rummet innanför” (translated from Swedish "The room inside") is the sequel of “Inte som du tror”, which book cover I had previously designed.Some events and details on the story led to the choice of the elements in the design. The main characters — Bella, Miranda and Erik — are on summer holiday. Bella is searching for answers about her family's history, after finding a revealing picture. Miranda is haunted by memories from a fire at her school. Erik is working at a soccer school for kids. As requested, the main scenario needed to also include a mansion, as well as a sports car.As in many books which target audience are teens, it was important to give some clues but without revealing too much of the plot.I followed the same style of the first book, as well as the placement of the characters and background effects. However, to better distinguish both books, I used a different color scheme with fresh tones to make the connection with summer season.

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Dreamclock World

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Little Big Brother

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Book Cover Design

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Book Cover Design

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Redesign of "Crown of Crowns" Book Cover

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Cover for a historical YA romance I illustrated the main characters of a romance based on the Renaissance. The back cover has a blurb in the style of a Renaissance book page but in a simpler style to match the front.

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Exciting start to a series about a peace-loving troll and his friends This was a fun cover to do. You don't usually get to make a troll a hero! Book 1 of a series.

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The Big Score -book cover- The book's premise is about a bunch of high schoolers who are into stealing car emblems (those name tags or symbols/logos that you can see usually in the back of a car's trunk) in the small beach town of New Bern, NC.

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𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 By Biserka Design 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲.

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Fantasy Book Cover

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Nobility

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Der weg des Heilers, Book 1 - Young adult fantasy series. This is the first book of a German young-adult fantasy series. The client wanted a magical atmosphere and a not so dark approach. I photomanipulated numerous images and combined digital painting in order to tie the elements together in a beautiful magical scene.

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𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 By Biserka Design 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲.

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Der weg des Heilers - Book 3, German young-adult fantasy series

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Strangers Saints and Sinners

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𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 by Biserka Design 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲.Original illustration

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Mend to be Broken Young Adult fantasy novel

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The Dead Orphanage Book Cover Book about a dead boy whose only possessions are pajamas, a tie, and a bus ticket to a boarding school in AfterLife.The requested mood was "cheerful Gothic", dark and playful and muted colors.

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The Siver Dome Notes by Rebekah Weyman "Welcome to the town of Silver Dome. Where the mountains provide a barrier to the outside world, which some find comforting, but Daisy finds constricting. There are so many things that she wishes she could undo, but that’s wishful thinking. Until, of course, an outlet arrives for her. What is Daisy supposed to do when it seems like she can’t outrun her past, and more importantly, escape her present? Who will she turn to when the walls are closing in? How far will she go to keep her secrets safe, and who will she push away in the process?"

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Unique book cover for suspenseful paranormal-romance novel!

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Create a gorgeous young adult book cover

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Memories revived in a robot's eyes Design book cover for young adult science fiction sequel book

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Book 1 of Young adult Romance Mystery series

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Science fiction book cover - dystopian prison theme

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Cover design for "The Monsters Between" Book cover design for the first in a series of spooky young-adult novels.

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The Caesar Secret book 3

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BMX and Tentacle i'm a specialist digital painting illustration. please send me a PM and we can discuss further about your project with 1 to 1. and get the valuable price.

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Book 2 of Young adult Romance Mystery series

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Book cover design - Cell 121 I find an inspiration in the subtitle - Learning to never give up on yourself or your loved ones in the toughest moments of life. Light through the window on empty chair in prison cell.

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The Ring of Fire

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The Day I died - YA thriller

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Spirikin maybe i don't have a time to join your contest. but i always have time for 1 to 1 project. let's make 1 to 1 project with me. discuss the negotiable price with fast response and high quality design.

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Young Adult Series, book 2

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retro design novel cover i'm a specialist digital painting illustration. please send me a PM and we can discuss further about your project with 1 to 1. and get the valuable price.

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book cover for a twisting and turning scifi tale for young readers

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Create the next book or magazine cover for Lafitte

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Diamond Bonds i'm a specialist digital painting illustration. please send me a PM and we can discuss further about your design needs through 1 to 1 project. Please come get the valuable price and quick response.

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Design a cover for a life-changing book Personal and business coaching. Our target audiences are millennials seeking direction in life and mid-lifers looking for more meaning in life. Top of the mountain like a synonym for the achievement.

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1-1 project book cover Book cover I recently did for a client via 1-1 project

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book Cover design Book cover design for mystery novel for young adult audiences and teens.

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Archangel Archangel is a YA dystopian novel set in Chicago and Detroit about 200 years in the future. It is a world of enormous technical and material inequality. The ruling are well educated and have electric-powered vehicles, the ruled have horses and carts and cannot read. The great human cities, like Chicago and Detroit, are largely ruins. Many of the tower blocks have no external walls or electricity but people live in them anyway.CH wanted the cover to be designed around a symbol, as in The Hunger Games, or Divergent, or Legend. The symbol should be Triskele.

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Cover design for "The Increasingly Transparent Girl" Book cover design for a young adult spooky story about a girl who starts to turn invisible.

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A challenging but rewarding cover project The task was to create a book - second in a series - that would look like it belonged with the first book in the series. I enjoyed creating this beautiful cover where the main character looks a little older and wiser than she did in the first book.

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book cover A book cover called "Strawberries"

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A book called "Why Does He Keep Hurting Me" A book called "Why Does He Keep Hurting Me". This is a guide for people, who are struggling a toxic relationship

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Wie Regen in der Wüste Naliri-Saga book 1

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Poignant cover for a book about a woman with anorexia The author wanted the color yellow to feature prominently in the cover. As anorexic girls often want to sort of disappear, figuratively speaking, I conveyed that with this image, and it spoke to the author.

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Secrets of Moldara

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Fun book concept for a book about champagne! Lighthearted, dramatic, sparkly.

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The Key As long as Emberlynn can remember she has dreamed about her past; the problem is, she has very little memory of it. Her only clues are a key she wears on a chain around her neck and the recurring nightmares of dark shadows in a dense fog.

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TLTBU YA Fantasy book cover

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Cover design about leadership This book is about becoming the person others follow. I made the graphism from the subtitle about leadership.

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'Black Forest' book cover .

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A book called "Where Are We Going?" This is a book about human nature and the struggle for democracy

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Cover for "The Identical Boy" Cover design for "The Identical Boy" from the Tales From Between series of spooky young adult novels.

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Jobs to be Done - Cover design Book cover elements in Framework - Jobs to be Done

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ExtraNormal

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Arystyria Arystyria, book 1

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'The Inexplicable Journey' book cover The Inexplicable Journey offers the story of a well-known actress and a bit role player who are inexplicably transported from the stage of their movie studio set to the very world that their fantasy movie is meant to portray. Together, the two must deal with the intimidating challenges of the movie plot as well as the nature of the magical and monster-strewn society they land in, while also learning about one another.

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'Daughters of Men' book cover Young adult supernatural fiction

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Exclusion This was a design I created that mixed good, clean and sunny with decrepit and destroyed. It is a Dystopian, futuristic-style of novel for young adults.

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Book Cover Book Cover

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Quotes books Book is about greatest quotes. Quotes are simple and effective and I made simple, modern and effective design.

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El Vagamundos Book Cover - El Vagamundos

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Fun concept for an ebook about a girl discovering her superpower! This is fun. The cover depicts our heroine just discovering her powers - being able to jump amazing heights on her bicycle - as her amazed parents (or the townspeople) look on.This design is available and unused if you'd like to see it adapted for your book. Save yourself the contest fees; shoot me a message and we'll open up a 1:1!

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Gejagt

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Stories in the Key of C Cancer is ~C~ word. Stories of courageous musicians. Two main elements for this design - C letter and guitar wires

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Attention Grabbing Book Cover Design Its business book about small business owners and taking back their business and their life. My idea is a SMILE. An unusual one. Its simple and attention grabbing.

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The Wake Up, a surreal cover for a dark fantasy novel

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Book cover for a Young Adult Memoir Since the telephone represents a turning point in the synopsis, I've used it as an element of the front cover to get the possible reader curious about the book.The handwritten font, the torn piece of paper and the colors are all chosen to attract young audiences and give an authentic, diary-like feel to the cover.

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A Break From You

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'Broken Wings' by Mandy Morrissey Seventeen-year-old Allie Pickering is about to embark on a journey into adulthood, when unexpectedly, she finds herself distracted by two mouth-watering love interests, an enchanted gift and a trashy arch-rival who wants her dead. Unbeknown to Allie, the gift is highly sought-after, but it doesn’t belong to her or the world she lives in — it must be returned or she risks a rather hideous death.Allie must decipher the truth from the lies, whilst entering a world she could never have imagined existed.Does she really have what it takes to save herself from everything and EVERYONE that she thought she ever knew…

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'Scalde' book cover .

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Science fiction ebook gets a creative treatment We went through several color variations and text changes before the author decided this exactly reflected his story!

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Designed to Move - Cover design It s about fighting sitting disease - leisure movement with sharp graphism symbolize pain

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Why School Sucks

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Kingdom Of The New Moon YA fantasy book cover

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Dramatic cover for a young adult novel It was challenging to make the cover artwork reflect the author's creation; four arms, etc. I was super happy the author really liked the cover and basically skipped the finals round!

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Fantasy Book cover design

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Book Cover Illustration

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Ingrid Ingrid, the Viking Maiden is a young adult novel blending elements of 10th century Vikings with fantasy drawn from Norse mythology. The story follows the coming-of-age journey of a young girl as she discovers her unique gifts.

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The Dead Orphanage AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE, with additional adjustments, through 1 to 1 project.

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Beyond

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Middle Grade Fantasy This one is near and dear, as I got to use my daughter as a model! Combining her with a fun tree background, I created my first design to win here on 99designs.

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Acrabha Stone Acrabha Stone: Blessing and Curse is the first book in a fantasy series about a mysterious and powerful gem that glows with darkness instead of light. The story tells how this stone affects the life of the male protagonist and all those around him.

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Icarus The story is about a group of friends, two girls and three guys, and one of the char.'s brother, that live on the space station Icarus that gets highjacked and they end up being separated from everyone. The 1st person char. is Orion and it is his story about growth, self acceptance, and forgiveness.

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