I designed the cover for Dan Prior’s excellent book Orphans.
It’s a great read, a well-crafted sci-fi story of young survivors of ecological disaster in near-future Australia.
Here’s the link to purchase the e-book: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B086L7SPGJ
I’ve not designed a book cover before, but Dan had a very specific vision for the front cover and sketch draft so all I had to do was refine his vision and bring all the elements together.
Adding the rear cover was an additional challenge which was somewhat unexpected, but I think I managed to make the covers visually connect front-to-back, which is a design principle which I love to see in book cover designs.
Unfortunately I won’t have a printed copy in my hands for a while as Amazon printing and shipping is disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a sad irony that Dan’s dystopian fiction book is being delayed by the outbreak of actual dystopian facts.
