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Brief de Design de Couverture de Livre

About my novel:
In The Great Oversight three cut-throat businesswomen flee their home countries—USA, UK and China—due to urgent and life threatening circumstances. Desperate for money in a global recession, the ladies separately embark on exploitative businesses in oil-rich Nigeria—in partnership with crooked locals. But an offended native spirit engulfs them with terror, pulling their lives together and throwing them apart. The desperate motivations behind each of their ventures are tested by the female spirit (Oracle) and some militant youth under her demonic spell.

Job Specification:
--Please use image enclosed in Imgur link to get a sense of how I visualise the one of the novel's main settings. It's a stock image available online. I saw it once randomly (whilst writing my book) and it struck me, perhaps because a young anonymous Nigerian girl is the actual Great Oversight. http://imgur.com/84jF5SB
--Please remember to include the name of the book, The Great Oversight and my name, Daniel Akinmade Emejulu. You can experiment with font styles.
--I believe the characters offer inspiration. Please see details regarding their character descriptions below.
--Rotoscoping effect is highly desirable

Descriptions of Main Character:
UK businesswoman: Her eyeglasses with thick black rims that ran across the top and bottom of each lens made her irises appear a more stern blue. Together with the strands of gray hair above both ears and her pale complexion, the glasses gave Yvette Saunders the look of an immortal sage. Yvette always wore deep red lipstick on her thin lips. Her eyebrows were equally faint, almost non-existent, yet managed to make her intimidating. And her penchant for white pearl earrings that hung stiffly below her ears added to her cold image. The shoulder-length flip was her staple hairstyle; it always furnished her with a classy look, even when she hadn’t brushed it. And her endless collection of recherché suits, usually navy blue or black, spoke of a fine executive pedigree. For an 80% likeness see http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uM-Mfi3rrB4/Tw5eX8F7vkI/AAAAAAAAAGo/dsGvg2p5hMI/s1600/Allison_Taylor.jpg


Chinese businesswoman: For an 80% likeness see pictures Lucy Liu (but "her eyebrows themselves—which were both arched, like upwards hills trying to meet each other as if to make a complete hill").

US businesswoman: Bald, teardrop tattoo, red-neck look. For a 60% likeness, see: https://i1.wp.com/thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/70216f1_spears_b_b-gr_52003421-300x300.jpg


Chief Mustafa: Chief Mustafa stood with a slightly hunched back. It gave him a discerning look. He bore a powerful scar on his face. It was a diagonal line, travelling from one side of his forehead to the bottom of his ear at the opposite end of his face. He always insisted that it was surgical, but it looked more sinister. The bottom half of his face was of a contrasting darkness to the top-half. It conjured up images of him using exactly the same razor for decades. Chief Mustafa could never speak without exposing all his teeth. He only had five, and they gave his voice a vibrating pitch.

Oracle: For a 95% likeness see the Satan character in Passion of the Christ (with black hood). Point of differentiation: African skin colour.

Militant Youth: Google Images of MEND Nigeria for inspiration

A piapiac bird is a pivotal character in the novel.

Excerpt from the novel:

Upon arriving at Blackgold Island—at the end of the bridge—the first thing that instantly stuck out were the Island’s creatures. They were found in curious places. Fish flapped on land, as if they were minutes away from death, but whenever the locals pushed the fish back into the dark-colored streams, they would spring back onto the land and continue to flap crude oil off themselves. Monkeys floated in the streams, and the way their faces sunk beneath the water surface suggested that their stillness would be permanent. There were fallen trees beside most monkeys—drifting along the still waters, being moved by an unseen force. Porcupines and civets dangled from the branches of the trees not fallen, but they were secure. They had visibly been shot dead, but were so high into their trees that none of the hunters who had shot them could afford to buy the type of climbing rope or raffia-belt that would assure a safe climb to retrieve them. So each time one of the bush-meat fell down, there would be a vicious scramble among the locals.
The living animals on the Island were scarce. They all had abnormal body contours, which gave the equatorial jungle a cursed ambiance. Every morning rush hour, an army of brown mongrel dogs—with half their faces missing—situated themselves in between the lanes of traffic, as the luxury cars came off the bridge and made their way further into the Island. Half of the dogs had extra legs, growing below their jaws or down from their tales. With half of their mouths, they barked ceaselessly at the passing cars, and jumped up so they would see the foreigners as they came into work every day.
The oldest living creature on Blackgold Island was the piapiac bird. One of her wings was missing. She often chirped about the constant pain it caused her, akin to a screwdriver being permanently etched into an eye socket. A gas-flaring pipe, one vertically standing, towering structure, which released hellish flames at its top—in a way that made it a skyscraping candle—had set her ablaze. She blamed her aging eyesight for missing the flames, and also the fact that Blackgold Island’s clouds were themselves, the color of fire.

Secteur / Type d'entité

Hair

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Exigences

Doit avoir

• Rotoscoping will be a winner
  Though, if it knocks my socks off, without the effect, I will consider it.