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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.

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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/).

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.

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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.
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.

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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: 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 ^.^
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