Cover design contest for The White Rabbit

[David]

I would love your vote for my cover design contest. Comments and discussion welcome. https://99designs.com/other-book-maga...

[Diana]

I voted. I wish I had known the synopsis.

[Harald, The Swimmer]

Welcome, David!

Not sure I'm understanding this. You're running a design contest for other designers? And for YOUR book ("White Rabbit")? Or...

It would help to have a clue of what the book's about. Genre? Blurb? Anything?

Thanks.

[Eileen]

I agree, we need the synopsis.

[BC]

Ditto--It must be some kind of steamy romance, but it is hard to say if a lone woman is going to capture the gist of the book. My two cents is that a lone, sexy lady on the cover will appeal to people who want to imagine a relationship with her. However, I don't think that men are your target audience, if your book is a romance.

You might want to rethink the concept before ruling out the other 424 entries in your contest.

[David]

I'm looking for which cover attracts the reader. Appeal.

Here's the synopsis. It's literary fiction with an overlap to suspense and mystery and romance.

Everyone has a heart to break.
It starts at a shameless private party. Black ties for the men. Costumes for the ladies. Silvia Sorenstam is a beauty painted as a white rabbit. Marshall Lisser, a twenty-eight year old aspiring rock musician living in his parent’s basement is smitten with the younger Silvia. Weeks of reckless living leads to a Vegas wedding. Then happily ever after is supposed to begin. But it doesn’t. You see, there’s a bun in the oven and the little brioche roll doesn’t belong to Marshall. And his new wife has a messy past which she’s desperate to escape. She’s hoping Marshall will stand in her place when retribution comes knocking. As they said in their marriage vows, till death do us part.

[Harald, The Swimmer]

David wrote: "I'm looking for which cover attracts the reader. Appeal. ..."

Ah, but that's the question B.C. is raising, i.e., who is your reader? If it's more women, then where's the male subject? Even if it's a 50/50 split, I'd go with a male/female combo or something totally abstracted (like #442 although that may not be the best treatment). In any case, I would not show full faces; cut them off or hide them. Like #362 (although it, too, has readability problems).

[Diana]

That white on bleached girl is in first place right now.