Design A Gritty Noir Crime Mystery Book Cover

A noir crime mystery novel

The cover, spine and back cover for a 6x9 size novel.

Attached is the cover template in both pdf and png formats. The template directions (from createspace.com) are as follows: 1. Open the PDF or PNG file for the Paperback Book Cover Template in your image editing software. 2. Create a new layer in your image editing software. This layer will serve as the design layer. 3. Design your cover in the design layer, using the template PDF or PNG file as the guide layer. The artwork should extend to the outside edge of the template's pink zone to ensure a white border will not exist within the printed work. Do not move the guide layer, as it is properly aligned for our printing specifications. 4. Ensure text and/or images that are intended to be read do not appear in the pink zones of the template. 5. The barcode area is indicated in yellow on the template. Do not place important images or text intending to be read in the barcode location. We suggest filling in this area with your background color or design. 6. Once your design is complete, you will need to turn off the guide layer so that it is not printed on your final product or rejected during the review process. If you are unable to turn off the guide layer, then you will need to format the artwork so that it completely covers the guide layer. 7. Flatten all layers, save the file as a press quality PDF, and upload the file through your CreateSpace account. Also attached: Examples of other book cover styles that I like and some other imagery related to my book. Try to keep it genre-specific: noir crime thriller mystery.The story has a lot of creepy/horror related imagery - cemeteries, funeral homes, embalmings, grave diggers, morgues, corpuses - but it's not a horror book, so no creepy, bloody fonts or anything like that needed. In the story the main character, an obit writer, is solving a mystery. He follows clues through an embalming room, funeral home, nursing home, cemetery, junk yard. The story takes place in a border town in Texas so there is a drug cartel involved. He ends up being buried alive in a cemetery. So one idea for the cover could be to have the book design split in half - above ground and below. I'm thinking something simple and colorful that has sharp contrasts, silhouettes and edges with an exciting looking font for the title. The synopsis that goes on the back cover of the book is the following: The disappearance of a corpse from an unearthed casket rocks a small southeast Texas border-town – but searching for the truth behind it will put down-and-out investigative reporter turned obituary writer Stan Wakefield on the trail of grave diggers, Mexican cartel mercenaries, desperate morticians and crooked cops, leading Stan to take deadly measures to catch a killer about to strike again – burying himself alive in Mountgrove Cemetery. The front cover and spine needs to say the title of the book: This Side of the Dirt and my (the author's) name: Zach Olsen. The rest of the design is up to you!

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