Welcome to another Friday book cover blog! This week the book in question is The Sarah Project by Tyler Savage.
Tyler had a clear idea of what he wanted for his cover, with concept sketches that immediately caught my imagination. I absolutely loved the idea behind it and couldn’t wait to see where it took us. And I rather like the outcome. No, I love it!
Taylor Marshal is a 21-year-old genius who had almost completed his dream to get an engineering degree, before developing schizophrenia and dropping out.
Condemning himself to an abandoned, modified power station, with no one but an overly-sarcastic robot for company, he develops the project of a lifetime: to create life.
Taylor must hide his illegally-created subject, Sarah, from the law, criminals, and the general public, at all costs, in order to prevent Sarah from getting killed, experimented on, or worse: missing.
As Sarah learns what it means to be alive, Taylor will have to determine whether Sarah is just a subject of his mad experiment, or something more.
How exciting does this sound? I’m getting modern day Frankenstein vibes. With the complex issues creating life is sure to raise, this sounds like an intriguing book indeed!
And here’s Tyler’s thoughts on the cover making process:
Working with Lauren has been an absolute treat! She asks the right questions to fit the intended cover you’re looking for. She listens well to every concern and suggestion, and she’ll do any necessary tweaking. When she created my cover, it turned out better than I imagined. So yeah, props to Lauren for a job well done!
Don’t forget to check back next week for my next cover blog featuring The Pole That Threads, by Crispina Kemp.
Lauren Willmore 
Perfect cover for a scientific theme with life and theory! Cool!
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Many thanks! It was great fun to work on 😊
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It looks like it. I do admire the variety of styles in your covers and so well adapted to the book and writer. I think some cover designers may tend to develop their style over the style of the author.
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Thanks. It’s always a fun challenge adapting my style for each cover.
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Another fantastic cover. And I love how the emphasis is on what the writer wants. That’s a freedom the self-publisher has that writers going the traditional route lack. Great post, Lauren. Can’t wait to see next weeks!
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Very true, I have heard a lot of trad published don’t end up liking their covers, though I guess design is subjective and therefore the cover design to make the target audience like it… hopefully mine does both 😊
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I remember an *anecdote* once heard by a woman writer. Her hard-hitting political novel was dressed in a bodice-ripping cover. Entirely the wrong image, and also the wrong target readership.
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Eeep. You’d hope the publisher knows what it’s doing… did the book sell well?
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Don’t remember. Long time ago. But it was told in favour of indie publishers
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