I’ve been working on this cover for The Making of a New Church by Natalie M. McMillan. The work has gone on and off for a couple of weeks (I generally find I’m working several projects due to delays produced when publishers have to look over and approve changes, make suggestions, and so forth).

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The picture was selected from a collection I’d done some time before. From there things were pretty straight forward. Ever the wild man, I tried matching a dark purple to the background; the black proved a better choice, giving the cover a more conservative look.

The typeface color (a very light yellow) comes from the picture itself. For the typeface I selected the conservative, elegant American Garamond.

The back cover lent itself to justification without any “rivers” appearing in the text, making for a very neat appearance when lined up the bar code I’d generated for the back cover.

Currently the publisher is editing and calculating the spine width. Once that’s “plugged into” the layout, this should be a wrap – barring those unexpected things that often come up when working on a book cover, of course.

You can see more of my cover design work at my Book Cover Gallery.