Cover: Don't Blame Murder on the Thief by _Malicious_

My short story will be about the life of a 16 year old kleptomaniac boy.

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Attribution: Cover design by Christina (wordshipwrecks). Photo courtesy of xn3ctz on deviantART.

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Once More: 10 Rings of Heaven by Janna Nagai

Mirai is the lowest ranked angel in heaven. However, Michael, the strongest angel, falls in love with her. But in order for them to remotely have a chance, she must conquer all 10 rings of heaven. Each ring of heaven challenges her because each ring of heaven has a virtue that they mainly go by, such as honesty and temperance. Each ring has an Archangel that tests her.

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Attribution: Cover design by Christina (wordshipwrecks). Stock images courtesy of shadavar-stock and Angiestock on deviantART.

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Cover: Falling Sparks by istolethecookiez360

Aspen Mills has vowed for a fresh start. After all the trauma in her life, she has decided to lay a new canvas and make something of herself. But all of her carefully thought out plans go awry when a mysterious guy turns up in her art class determined to crack the enigma that is Aspen. Will she let him in or push him out?

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Attribution: Cover design by Christina (wordshipwrecks).

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About payment: I'd love an honest 3+ line comment on my story On the Midnight Streets. Thanks in advance!

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Cover: 10 Rings of Heaven by Janna Nagai

Mirai is the lowest ranked angel in heaven. However, Michael, the strongest angel, falls in love with her. But in order for them to remotely have a chance, she must conquer all 10 rings of heaven. Each ring of heaven challenges her because each ring of heaven has a virtue that they mainly go by, such as honesty and temperance. Each ring has an Archangel that tests her. 

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Attribution: Cover design by Christina (wordshipwrecks). Stock image courtesy of Mirish on deviantART.

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Cover: Love in the Library by JCoolie

Mia finds a passion for reading after becoming an outcast in her senior year of high school. Reading helps pass the time she spends alone in the library, and occasionally, is a great conversation starter—especially when she meets Christian Blake, her new English teacher. The intellectual chemistry that sparks between the two is too fiery for either them to ignore. But due to Christian's haunted past will Mia stay around long enough to see the future? Or will Christian's past enemies catch up with the both of them?
Do check out JCoolie's profile on Wattpad.

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Attribution: Cover design by Christina (wordshipwrecks).

About the attribution: Please copy-paste the attribution into the description of your Wattpad piece. That's the only payment I ask for! [Note: no attribution for the image is required, as this photo is in the public domain and is therefore copyright free.]

The design process:

I thought that a simple, cute cover would be the best way to go for this, since you didn't give any character descriptions. I chose the cleanest book-related photo I could find from public domain photo site Pixabay and quickly did some effects work on it so that it looked slightly muted and pink-toned. While doing this, I also took the opportunity to apply a faint paper texture, to add to the 'school' element of the design.

Choosing fonts was the hardest part of the design (as usual) and took me quite a while, as I was struggling with text alignment. Eventually, I went with Windsor Hand for the handwriting parts and Nexa Slab Thin for the rest. From there, it was a simple matter of adding a heart in for the 'o' to accentuate the romance aspects of the story and changing the color of the author name to suit! I had a lot of fun making this and stretching my design muscles. 

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Cover: A Perfect World by Julia G.

Life was never easy for the Sioux Indians. Especially for Kira, and her sister, Lily. After their dad was shot by a white soldier, they thought that was it. The white men would leave them alone. But one day, 6 years later, when Kira goes out in search of her mom, she realizes it's not over. The destruction has only just begun.
Check out A Perfect World on Figment, as well as Julia's profile.

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Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Dreamcatcher stock courtesy of ForestGirlStock on deviantART (http://forestgirlstock.deviantart.com/).

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The design process:

I wasn't sure at first where to go with this, because I couldn't find any good stock photos with Native American elements, and I couldn't find any picture that would suit your characters. However, I found this dreamcatcher stock on deviantART and immediately thought it would be perfect and minimalist, especially since you asked for a more "vibrant" cover. I combined that with one of my favorite serif fonts, High Tower Text, and a flash of Edo to emphasize the "perfect" in your title, and did a little cross-processing to complete the process. This was really quick and fun once I got the inspiration for the cover, and a total relief because I'm usually horrible at making historical fiction covers.

(PS: This is also my 200th published post on Covers Coruscant! How exciting!)

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Cover: Beast by Elliot Parker

[A retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale.] Years ago a Queen was cursed by a powerful wizard who transformed her beauty into an ugly beast. Horrified by what she had become the Queen hid herself away within her castle. As the years passed her kingdom slowly began to weaken. Attacks from outside forces became more and more common. Despite it all, the Queen remained locked within her castle, growing cold and bitter with each passing day. That is, until she showed up.
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Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Background texture courtesy of MJK-Stock on deviantART (http://mjk-stock.deviantart.com/). Stock used for silhouette courtesy of jlior on deviantART (http://jlior.deviantart.com/).

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The design process:

You left this really open, and I love doing fairytale retelling covers, so this was a lot of fun. I knew I wanted a silhouette on a background straightaway to convey the feeling of the Queen's mystique, since she's hidden away in her castle, as well as to show how unclear the Queen's appearance was. I also loved the hand placement in this stock photo and snatched the opportunity to slip in a rose. After experimenting with some background and text effects, I settled on Perpetua Titling for your title and italicized Perpetua for the author text. I decided on the reflection for the "Beast" title to sort of show how the beastly side and the beautiful side of your Queen are just two facets of the same character - hopefully that worked!

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Cover: Sinner's Way by A. J. C.

Annabella Balinkay hates watching people die. Unfortunately for her, it happens every time she touches someone who's seen death. So when Colin Pierce shows up at her family's inn and she can't avoid bumping into him, she's surprised to find they have something in common: they both watched his brother die. On the hunt for his killer, Colin seeks the help of Anna and her psychic family. But getting involved with the Balinkays is more dangerous than one might think. With a house that has a personality of its own and a jabberwocky that masquerades as the family cat, the least Colin has to worry about is the man who killed his brother, and who wants to kill him.
Read Sinner's Way on Figment.

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Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Background texture courtesy of So-ghislaine on deviantART (http://so-ghislaine.deviantart.com/).

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The design process:

I was unsure about what direction to go in, since you didn't really leave any design ideas. Eventually, I went with a texture from So-ghislaine that I really, really liked (those of you who regularly check this blog know that So-ghislaine is my GO-TO place for textures). Then I thought I might model the text after the cover of Ignite, but I quickly realized that this wouldn't work for the words in your title. So I fiddled with fonts for a while (this makes up the bulk of my design process usually, no joke) until I realized that bolding the font Champagne & Limousines creates this very cool thriller-esque thing that I used for "Sinner's" and "A. J. C.". I laid some different effects and colors over each other to create the blurring. I also softened the background texture itself to bring out the text more. After some more font-tweaking, I went with Quicksand for "way" in the title.

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Cover: Backwards by Chloe Amick

Eun-chae committed suicide, and no one knows why. Times change and things happen, and see how the past morphs the present in this reverse-chronological tale.
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Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Cover image made from scratch using PicMonkey.

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The design process:

 This one was relatively simple - I knew I had all the tools I needed to make a minimalistic cover from scratch in PicMonkey, so I went with a clean font (Quicksand) for the title and author. Then I went ahead and did the things you asked: minimalistic (not a lot of colors), a clock (I tried to make that impression with the "o" in the author name), a blood spatter (sort of obvious over the title here), with an all-lowercase title.

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