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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.

About the attribution: Please copy-paste the attribution into the description of your Wattpad piece. This is an easy way to ensure that the designer (that's me!) and the stock artists get the credit they deserve for the cover, which respects the wishes of the stock artists and helps avoid thorny copyright issues.

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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).

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

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.

About the attribution: Please copy-paste the attribution into the description of your Wattpad piece. This is an easy way to ensure that the designer (that's me!) and the stock artist get the credit they deserve for the cover, which respects the wishes of the stock artist and helps avoid thorny copyright issues.

Thanks for requesting! Enjoy your cover!

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. 

Thank you for requesting! Enjoy your cover!

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/).

About the attribution: Please copy-paste the attribution into the description of your Figment piece so that the stock artists are credited properly and legally.

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!)

Thanks for requesting! Enjoy your cover!

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.
Check out Elliot's Figment page.

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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/).

About the attribution: Please copy-paste the attribution into the description of your Figment piece so that the stock artists are credited properly and legally.

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!

Thanks for requesting! Enjoy your cover!

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/).

About the attribution: Please copy-paste the attribution into the description of your Figment piece so that the stock artists are credited properly and legally.

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.

Thanks for requesting! Enjoy your cover!

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.
Check out Chloe's Figment page.

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Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Cover image made from scratch using PicMonkey.

About the attribution: Please copy-paste the attribution into the description of your Figment piece so that the stock artists are credited properly and legally.

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.

Thank you for requesting! Enjoy your cover!

Cover: Below by Stephanie Stott

Deep underneath the ragged city of Marenis, Areeve Waters has a secret: her brother is a murderer. Sent years ago from her house in a flurry of tears and terror, Areeve lived on the streets, squabbling for meals - until the children of Below welcomed her to their world. She lives her life in bliss, oblivious to the troubles of her past. Yet when a disaster decimates the city above and delivers the surviving population to the children's doorstep, living becomes burdensome. When secrets of their underground utopia become unraveled, more than one vile mind is set on corrupting it. Will Areeve be able to shield her beloved underground city, or sacrifice it all for the safety of her friends?
Read Below here, and check out Stephanie's works on Figment.

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Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. City premade background courtesy of E-DinaPhotoArt on deviantART (http://e-dinaphotoart.deviantart.com/). Girl stock courtesy of MariaAmanda on deviantART (http://mariaamanda.deviantart.com/).

About the attribution: Please copy-paste the attribution into the description of your Figment piece so that the stock artists are credited properly and legally.

The design process:

I knew that I wanted to do a double exposure as soon as I saw how much freedom you were giving me with the design. I thought it would fit the dark aspect of the cover really well, and besides, pictures of cities are usually clunky otherwise. (I was afraid this would turn out badly because I've never actually done a double exposure, but I'm really happy with it and I hope you are as well.)

The girl picture was easy enough to find - all I had to do was search 'white hair' on the deviantART stock database and soon enough this lovely model came up. Then for the background I had to search around a little bit to find an image big enough to work with. 

The double exposure took a bit of tweaking - after I completed the basic steps, I had to blur the background to get the perfect balance of background and girl. But adding the text after that was nearly painless - after I realized that Shipped Goods would fit the title typeface well, I fiddled with the color and layering a little until I got this lovely, bold red. And the author text was sort of a no-brainer. I kept it minimalistic to avoid distraction from the main features - the title and double exposure.

Overall, I modeled the design after the cover of Jackaby by William Ritter, with the sweeping cursive typeface and the bluish double exposure (ack, I keep repeating the phrase "double exposure"; it must be grating on your eyes).  I'm actually very proud of how it turned out, so I hope it fits your story nicely!

Thank you for requesting! Enjoy your cover!

Cover: Switch by Rachel Smith

It is 2120 A.D. and humans, aliens and androids all rule the planet (and the moon as well). It is a peaceful time, full of new inventions and technology, but there are secrets behind how the three races came to coexist.
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[Note: I'm a little low on time these days, so I only made the first cover despite the fact that you requested covers for the rest of the series as well. I'll only be able to make the other two if you choose to use this cover. Because I'm not taking the time to do all three, you won't have to do any free reads for me. Thank you for your understanding!]

Switch shows how aliens first came to Earth following the discovery of a newly launched space camera.
Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Background texture courtesy of So-ghislaine on deviantART (http://so-ghislaine.deviantart.com/).

About the attribution:

Please copy-paste the attribution into the description of your Figment piece so that the stock artists are credited properly and legally.

The design process: I started by browsing through tech-related textures in the deviantART stock database, but the motherboards and circuitry weren't really doing anything for me aesthetically. Eventually I downloaded a zip file of this texture set from So-ghislaine, since I knew that if you asked me to make covers for the rest of the series, I could easily pick another texture from the set to make it look cohesive. Plus, these look futuristic without being too bogged down in mechanics. I fiddled with the color scheme in PicMonkey to make the background cleaner and more green because you requested that sort of color, and then I set about adding the text. Since I knew I wanted a clean, no-nonsense sans serif font to fit the science fiction genre of Switch, I used Champagne & Limousines as the font for both the title and author text. The layering behind the title, as well as the U P P E R C A S E and lowercase contrast between the title and author name, was meant to add an appealing visual element to what can otherwise be a somewhat boring font.

Thank you for hosting this cover contest! Enjoy your cover!

Cover: Claimed by Jette Black

Lunar finds herself fighting for the wrong side in the war, somehow managing to become the most important person, even though she is not nearly as powerful as everyone seems to believe.
Read Claimed here.

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Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Hand stock courtesy of Jay-B-Rich on deviantART (http://jay-b-rich.deviantart.com/). Background texture courtesy of DivsM-stock on deviantART (http://divsm-stock.deviantart.com/).

About the attribution:

 Please copy-paste the attribution into the description of your Figment piece so that the stock artists are credited properly and legally.

The design process:

 After reading the description of your piece, I immediately knew that I wanted a fire texture to go with the idea of fire elementals. After looking through the deviantART stock database, I went with this one. Naturally, I would have to add other elements of interest in order to make the cover pop more, so I thought using the hand as a symbol of power would work well. For the font, I experimented with cursive fonts for a while before going with something simpler. Cardo was used for the title, and High Tower Text was used for the author name.

Thank you for hosting this cover contest! Enjoy your cover!

Cover: Twisted Destiny by Heather Dudley

Adayne wanted nothing but to spend her days working her family's farm, in spite of efforts to get her married off to a man to "take care of her." (And more importantly, her family's land.) She resists all comers, and the Rathkin family survives, even flourishes under her care.

Her world is flipped upside down when the carnivorous unicorns of legend steal her from her potatoes and whisk her away on a wild ride through the plains to their secret community. They aren't interested in her virginity, they don't seem to want to eat her, so what DO they want?

Her destiny and theirs are bound together, and the world may never be the same when she's done with it.

Attribution: Cover design by wua{star} Covers. Girl image courtesy of Tim Simpson on Flickr. Stock background courtesy of Alegion-stock on deviantART (http://alegion-stock.deviantart.com/).

Also, here's the text-less version (below):
Hope you like it, HD! :)

Cover: Elegant Crime by Audrey McKee

The two main characters are Mave and Day. Mave is a thief and Day is a spy and he kidnapped Mave because he saw her with stolen items. Now they have to find Day's friend Erin and all Mave wants is to get back to her family. Along the way, she falls in love with Day and the feeling is mutual on the other end. Then, Mave's parents are arrested and they find Erin. Will they go and save Mave's parents from prison?
Attribution: Cover design by wua{star} Covers. Stock image courtesy of Valnetine-FOV-Stock on deviantART (http://valentine-fov-stock.deviantart.com/).

Notes: I couldn't find a good picture of the boy, so sorry ~ but I think it came out okay overall, so I hope you like it :3

Cover: Lost by Felicitie Hazel

*summary unavailable*

For Feliciti on NaNoWriMo YWP.

Attribution: Cover design by wua{star} Covers. Stock image courtesy of AmethystDreams1987 on deviantART (http://amethystdreams1987.deviantart.com/).

First cover I've done in a while, and certainly not my best, but hopefully it'll do.

Cover: Half-Cursed by K. A. Dusky

The curse split in half. A piece of it latched onto a dragon-hide bracelet and poor, baby Azeth. The two connected, so as the baby grew older, it was clear he wasn't fully human—but part dragon. The other half of the curse was more dormant and didn't show up as quickly. But when Raziel got stuck in a haunted forest, he, too, found himself changing, into something more or less like a tree. The two halves never came into contact with the other for fifteen years, until Azeth crossed the haunted forest that Raziel was trapped inside. Unfortunately, when the two met, the curse halves reacted and reformed the full curse—only held at bay by a cripple who seems to have a resistance towards magic. But when the cripple gets kidnapped, Raziel and Azeth's curse take a turn for the worse.

Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Stock image courtesy of ~stocks-by-manaXmomo on deviantART (http://stocks-by-manaxmomo.deviantart.com/).

Wasn't sure where to go with this, so... there you are. :3

Cover: Captured by Anonymous M.

She has always loved science. When at school she gets the opportunity to be a part of a big science project, with a famous scientist, she applies. She finds out she has been accepted and during the school day is brought into a circle in the middle of a soccer field. Soon, random bystanders run towards one specific target with needles--- syringes full of drugs that make each student pass out. As each child wakes up in the hands of a mass murderer and kidnapper, they realize they must escape or die. But nobody is strong enough to attempt escape. Except our heroine. But then begins the game. This unnamed game is brimming with certain death, danger and pain. And in the middle of nowhere, they are all set loose. The murderer's goal? Find and kill everybody. How will they ever survive?

Well, there you are :)

Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Stock image courtesy of =Henibas on deviantART (http://henibas.deviantart.com/). Stock texture courtesy of =Sirius-sdz on deviantART (http://sirius-sdz.deviantart.com/).

The cover is entirely legal, as always, but I'm not sure if it's publishable, as I have no idea how to make CreateSpace covers. It is 5x8 proportions, though ^.^

Cover: Breath by Evangeline Brooks

Everyone after the The Great Wars was born with a little magic. My novel follows four teens from the first generation that was completely surrounded by it (and maybe takes it a little for granted). Abigail has a temper that can kill--literally. Cassandra "Cass" is the new kid from an enemy kingdom. Olivia is the freak with the messed-up wings. Lilly Nicole, leader of this group of weirdos, has been known dually since childhood as both the creep who can see your emotions on your breath and the helper of everyone who needs it. But as civil war threatens, both in the kingdom and in themselves, they will be put to the test in the worst ways possible and maybe--or maybe not--come out the other side as heroes.

Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Stock image courtesy of ~Reine-Haru on deviantART (http://reine-haru.deviantart.com/).

Cover: The Garlic Bread Epidemic by Imaginarium

In the Guild, a world infatuated with cleanliness, garlic is regarded upon as an important anti-bacterial supply. However, when a girl and her partner discover an illegal food supposedly called "garlic bread", a whole new commotion forms about the spice, and suddenly all are clamoring for this new food-- this food that was somehow vetoed by the Guild decades ago. But is there a particular reason why?

Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Public domain image from Pixabay.

I wasn't totally sure where to go with this, but... here's my valiant effort! Heh.

Cover: Sunset by Forever and Always

*summary unavailable*

The writing is here: http://figment.com/books/677144-Sunset

Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Public domain image from Pixabay.

Cover: Anonymobile by Taylor Denison

The Anonymobile is a 20-story structure made entirely of metals, standing in the middle of Future USA. Every year, on Justice Day, people who have done wrong to that country that year are killed and put on the Anonymobile. When citizens Emma and Wyatt are caught talking to someone who was rumored to have been starting a revolution, the people in charge of the Justice Ceremony assume that they are going to rebel and lock them up two days before Justice Day. Before Emma and Wyatt know it, they are pretending to be dead, being hung on the Anonymobile structure, and suddenly everyone they've ever loved thinks that they are both dead. How will Emma and Wyatt get out of this fix?

Attribution: Cover design by Starflower. Car silhouette courtesy of tweak69695 on deviantART (http://tweak69695.deviantart.com/).
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