• US$300

• 2 jour(s) restant(s)

• 33 designs

• 6 designers

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Brief de Design de Couverture de Livre

I need a professional book cover design for a literary memoir titled I Drove My Guardian Angel to Drink by Larisa B. Miller. This project requires two complete cover files — one for the paperback edition and one for the hardcover edition — both built to IngramSpark print specifications.
The author photograph is attached and is the centerpiece of the cover. It is not a placeholder. The front cover contains three elements only: the author name, the photograph, and the title. No subtitle, no taglines, no additional elements.
A complete creative brief is attached. Read it in full before submitting a design. It contains all specifications, typography direction, mood references, comparable covers, and file delivery requirements.
A back cover text package is also attached for layout reference. A Canva reference design showing the directional concept is attached — the photograph placement and title position are correct, the typography needs professional resolution.
This is a literary memoir in the tradition of Educated, Inheritance, and The Glass Castle. The cover must feel sophisticated, restrained, and literary — not self-help, not inspirational, not decorative.
Two formats required. Paperback and hardcover. IngramSpark spine templates for both formats are attached.
Full file delivery specifications are in the brief. The photo in front of the water in the blue jacket should be used inside the dust jacket with the bio. Do not use literal interpretations of the title. No whiskey glasses, no alcohol, no angel figurines, no cherubs, no wings, no halos, no religious imagery of any kind. The title is metaphorical. The cover must not illustrate it literally. The author photograph is the only image on the front cover. Typography, photograph, author name. Nothing else. BRIEF UPDATE — BACK COVER PHOTOGRAPH AND LAYOUT — Please read before submitting.
A second author photograph is now attached to this brief. It is a color photograph and it is specifically for the back cover author bio section only. Do not convert it to black and white. Do not use it on the front cover. The front cover uses only the black and white photograph already provided. The color photograph is for the back cover exclusively.
Back cover layout — exact order top to bottom:
1. Endorsement quotes — top of back cover.
Three endorsement quote placeholders, each approximately two to three lines of quote text followed by the endorser name and credential on the line below. Separate each quote with a thin rule or line. Set in italics, smaller than the jacket copy text. These are placeholders — final quotes are pending.
2. Jacket copy — middle of back cover.
The main descriptive text block. This is the largest text block on the back cover. Set in a clean readable serif, slightly larger than the endorsement quotes. Use the following final approved text exactly as written:
It begins before she is born.
In 1907, Rózsa Zsufa crosses the Atlantic alone at twenty-five, leaving behind an illegitimate son, a forbidden love affair, and a family that has made clear she is no longer welcome. She builds a life from nothing in Pittsburgh, keeps a secret for decades, and passes something down to the women who follow her that she never names and never has to. The refusal to accept a smaller life than the one you are capable of building. It travels through the blood.
Four generations later, her great-granddaughter arrives in Abu Dhabi at forty-three to find a marriage unexpectedly unraveling, a career long-abandoned to support her husband's, two boys to raise, and no plan. What she does next — a quilt guild, a palace, ministerial meetings across Africa, stages in thirty-one countries, and a global company built from nothing — is what happens when a woman finally stops building someone else's life and starts building her own.
I Drove My Guardian Angel to Drink is the story of four generations of women who refused the smaller life.
This is a book for anyone who has ever been too much for the life they were given — and who refused to stay in it.
Proof that someone has navigated it.
And that you can too.
3. Author bio with photograph — bottom of back cover.
Place the color author photograph on the left side, cropped to approximately a two inch square or whatever proportion fits the layout cleanly. The author bio text runs to the right of the photograph. Use the following text exactly as written:
Larisa B. Miller is the founder and CEO of Phoenix Global, a specialized global advisory firm operating across five continents. She gave up a rising career in government service to support her husband, an AH-64D Apache pilot through four combat deployments, and followed him to Abu Dhabi believing the hardest years were finally behind her. When the marriage unraveled, she was forty-three, in a country that was not hers, with no job and no road back. She built her professional career from scratch in Abu Dhabi following the reinvention at the center of this book. She has spoken at official United Nations side events and on stages in thirty-one countries, and her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Institutional Investor. She lives in North Carolina.
4. Barcode and ISBN — lower right corner.
Minimum clear space 2 inches wide by 1.2 inches tall. No other design elements within 0.25 inches of the barcode block.
Background treatment:
The back cover background should not be flat black. Add a subtle texture, very light gradient, or carry a soft element from the front cover photograph into the background to give the back cover visual depth and weight. It should feel finished and intentional, not like an empty void with text dropped onto it.
Typography:
Consistent with the front cover type treatment. Same font family throughout. Endorsement quotes in italics. Jacket copy in roman. Author bio in roman at slightly smaller size than the jacket copy. All text must be legible against the dark background — use white or very light grey for all back cover text.
Do not add anything else to the back cover. No additional images, no decorative elements, no additional text beyond what is specified above.

Marché(s) Cible(s)

Women aged 35 to 65. Readers of literary memoir and narrative nonfiction. Military spouse community. Women navigating reinvention, divorce, or major life transition. Business and leadership audience. Book club readers. Comparable readership to Educated by Tara Westover, Inheritance by Dani Shapiro, and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.

Secteur / Type d'entité

Industry: Book publishing. Literary memoir. Narrative nonfiction.

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Styles de police à utiliser

Autres polices appréciées:

• Garamond, Caslon, or Freight Display. Clean geometric sans-serif such as Futura or Gotham. Avoid fonts that read as corporate, casual, or decorative. The font chosen for the title must work in both white and gold without losing legibility against the dark photographic background.

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Aspect

Chaque curseur illustre les caractéristiques de la marque client et le style que doit transmettre votre design de logo.

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Exigences

Doit avoir

• The author photograph — black and white, attached, full bleed, centerpiece of the cover. This is not a placeholder. Do not alter, colorize, or filter it. Author name: LARISA B. MILLER — top of cover, white, clean and strong. Title: I DROVE MY GUARDIAN ANGEL TO DRINK — lower third of cover. TO DRINK in gold. All other title words in white. Unified typography — all words of the title must feel like one visual system. This is the primary design challenge. Two complete cover files — one paperback, one hardcover — built to the attached IngramSpark spine templates. Print-ready PDF both formats, editable source files both formats, front cover flat image for ebook, square audiobook cover 2400 x 2400 pixels.

Bien d'avoir

• A drop cap treatment on the I that opens the title, if the designer can make it feel intentional and unified with the rest of the title rather than decorative. Back cover placeholder showing the design treatment and barcode placement area — full back cover text is provided in the attached back cover package for layout sizing. Subtle gold accent elements if they enhance rather than decorate — the gold should feel intentional, not ornamental.

Ne doit pas comporter

• No subtitle. No tagline. No credential lines. No award badges. No endorsement quotes on the front cover. No brushstroke fonts. No handwritten fonts. No decorative display fonts. No more than two typeface families in the entire design. No additional colors beyond white, gold, and the black and white photograph. No colorizing, filtering, or altering the photograph in any way. No graphic elements, borders, frames, or decorative embellishments. No busy or cluttered layout — negative space is the design language of this cover. Nothing that reads as self-help, inspirational poster, or business book. Do not use literal interpretations of the title. No whiskey glasses, no alcohol, no angel figurines, no cherubs, no wings, no halos, no religious imagery of any kind. The title is metaphorical. The cover must not illustrate it literally. The author photograph is the only image on the front cover. Typography, photograph, author name. Nothing else.

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