The second cover completed this week was a reworking of an earlier cover for Carlie Simonsen’s Dear Tiger. The title has been updated, and the series is now planned to be five books long, so a set of covers needed to be created to pull the series together.
Carlie’s
chapter books use Segoe Print Bold for the Title, and Tiger Rag LeT for her
byline. I use a black base, and then build up from there.
Apart
from the title and by-line branding, I had to figure out a slightly different
look for each line, so, starting this year, I will be working with the older
covers to update each series. In The
Tiger Letters series, I’ve decided to use a series of planets as the
background, and then add a second picture to emphasise some of the other
content in the story.
I’ve
also added in the series name and the book’s place in that series, and retained
Dear
Tiger as part of the title. This sometimes makes it hard for the entire
title to fit, but we’re working on that. The pictures below show the original
cover, followed by the place-holder cover, and the cover final. There’s not a
log of difference, but it’s there.
Planetary
artwork was by Roberto Pirola and sourced from Dreamstime, while the photograph
of the notepad, pen and envelope was by Feng Yu, and also sourced from
Dreamstime. I have manipulated both pieces of work and combined them to form
the cover using GIMP.
“Dear Tiger, this has been the best day ever…
but I lie.”
Simone Michaels is in trouble, but she doesn’t know
how deep. Her parents’ expedition has gone missing, and that she’s afraid
she’ll go missing, too. Will she get the chance to see her mum and dad, again?
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