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:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/103/103953/attachment_103953267 "Book description
Hector Herrera is in his early 20's and aimlessly going through the motions of life. He was living at home with his widowed mother and step father when he stumbled upon the ability to skip through time. Soon after finding out that he's not the only one, he's confronted with the opportunity to delve deeper into this newly found world by fighting against historical injustice. But to do so he'll have to leave behind everything he's ever known.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/104/104151/attachment_104151469 "This is the blurb:
The universe dies a slow death. In many billions of years, humanity has spread out over many galaxies where it exists as a group of immortal consciousnesses. Its greatest grief is the fact that no other intelligent life has ever been found. Its greatest hope consists in the plan to destroy the universe and wipe out itself with an artificial big bang that might result in a better cosmos. Everything is set for a grand finale - but then something happens that nobody expected. And humanity must re-consider itself and its whole existence.
The cover should show the beauty of the universe and the hopelessness of humanity. It should be fascinating to look at, transporting a certain wow effect.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/103/103557/attachment_103557773 "Book description
Genre: SciFI/Space opera (+ mystery + interstellar conspiracy).
Setting: Space stations, planets, and asteroid colonies; Merchant space ships that serve them and pirates that plague them; Ten light years from earth.
Plot: A 12 year-old girls family is massacred when she is twelve years old, but no one believes her story that it was piracy. She pends the next ten years investigating who did it while struggling with PTSD and drugs. When she uncovers the interstellar conspiracy behind her parents death, they invade her new home colony with a war fleet to destroy her and keep the story hidden.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/104/104120/attachment_104120878 "This is the blurb:
The universe dies a slow death. In many billions of years, humanity has spread out over many galaxies where it exists as a group of immortal consciousnesses. Its greatest grief is the fact that no other intelligent life has ever been found. Its greatest hope consists in the plan to destroy the universe and wipe out itself with an artificial big bang that might result in a better cosmos. Everything is set for a grand finale - but then something happens that nobody expected. And humanity must re-consider itself and its whole existence.
The cover should show the beauty of the universe and the hopelessness of humanity. It should be fascinating to look at, transporting a certain wow effect.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/104/104021/attachment_104021153 "Book description
Jess Aaronson's world has descended into madness. She lost her family to the chaos of America's collapse, and nearly lost her spirit from the brutal abuse that followed. But now that she's pregnant, she has a new reason to keep fighting…
As she comes to terms with the life growing inside her, Jess flees Tent Five and finds herself in a lawless land. In search of the only family she has left and the home she left behind, the darkness threatens to consume both her and her unborn child.
Can Jess find her family, or will her escape come with the ultimate price?")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/103/103912/attachment_103912450 "Book description:
In 2020 a strange patient is found next to a road deep in the snowy forests of Finland. He has a strange augmentation behind his ear and a big scar on his skull. His mysterious hardware ends up in the hands of two entrepreneurs who use it to push their start up to the next level. Years later they have developed \"the next big thing\" that everyone wants to have, because it enables you to control tech with your mind.
Ten years later, the world has changed. A father and his daughter, living in the nowhere of northern Montana live a life in fear of being found. Strange objects fly through the sky, plants that have never been seen before start growing in the forest and the father keeps a secret in the cellar of their log cabin. He is searching for the signal that changed the world.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/101/101809/attachment_101809835 "Book description
Magdalena and friends are thrown back into another adventure in The Enchanted Forest. The delicate balance of good and evil has tipped again. Queen Lindtzl has been captured. Unsure of what danger lies ahead, MALB (the Mystical Alliance of Lily Brooke) travels to the enchanted kingdom to battle any evil that stands in the way of rescuing the queen.
Target audience
Juvenile fiction, most readers will be middle grades to young adult.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/102/102216/attachment_102216839 "Book description:
A story about a girl (16 years), who falls in love with a boy, who is a gargoyle at day and an angel at night.
At day the gargoyle is a stone statue, sitting on a rooftop in front of the girls window. At night he comes to life and can act like a normal boy, but also like an angel.
The story takes place in the city of Hamburg, Germany.
Target audience
Girls (14 - 21 years)")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/102/102482/attachment_102482396 "From the Contest Holder:
The story is manly about three wolfs. I wish them to be as silhouettes in the front of the moon. The one on the right should look to the right, the one in the middle above, or to the front, the one to the left looks left.
If you could insert to every wolf silhouette an own picture, like the women in the attached photo, that would be awesome!
I would like that the wolf on the left, has an african landscape.
The wolf in the middle the silhouette of an historic medieval city.
And the wolf on the right an snowstorm in the mountains.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/94/94461/attachment_94461633 "Core idea - An erupting volcano in a dark setting, with superimposed golden eyes looking out of the clouds. The climax of the book occurs beneath an eruption, and the antagonist is a shape-shifting monster distinguished by his golden animal-like eyes.
The protagonist uses fire magic, though I'm not sure how this could be used without making the cover cluttered. I would be interested to see if a designer could use fire in an elegant way.
Text - An angular and sharp font, as the book is set in a feudal period.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/101/101954/attachment_101954525 "Design needs:
The feel should be dark fairytales. Details that will work well are the woods, flowers, apples, fairy creatures and anything that suggests magic. Think ancient fairy folklore.
I would like to stay away from the prominent red color of that cover, so that it looks like a companion, but not the same (greens and golden-yellows will work well, but feel free to explore).")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/94/94836/attachment_94836962 "Freefall is a science-fiction novel about colonists aboard a transit ship destined to make landfall on a new planet - they fear they are being poisoned by the very drug that allows deep-space travel.")
About
Graphic designer, ebook architect, book typesetter, and digital nomad with more than a decade of experience. Primarily, I design book covers, but I'm also interested in other projects, so don't hesitate to message me even if you're not looking for all-things-books.
Member since:
February 28, 2009
Reviews
"An excellent designer with outstanding interpersonal skills, a great attitude and a tremendous perseverance and dedication. She never stops until she is sure that she has given the best of herself. I couldn´t be happier with her performance. I strongly ..."
Anonymous client
reviewed over 6 years ago
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Phoogstoel
reviewed over 9 years ago
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"Great designer and super flexible with our request after the competition was over. Thanks again Marraii!!!"
Michael7142050
reviewed over 9 years ago
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"It was an absolute pleasure working with marraii on this design project for my logo. Since I am a very visual person, I often felt like I was overstepping the lines with requests asking for additional views. Marraii is an exceptionally talented artis..."
AngieR
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"Marraii was very responsive to feedback given on her designs and she worked diligently to give us exactly what we were looking for."
Christopher Anderson
reviewed over 9 years ago
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