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.

[Click on the image to see the full-size cover - although please be warned for when you download that this one is really, really big!]

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.
[As always, click on the image to see the full-size cover!]

[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

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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/).
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