I designed this cover so that it would agitate – and give evidence of – the main character.
"When he inherits a locked box that has no key from an unknown relative, an adopted young man must travel across the country in search for his real parents in hopes that they will provide the answers about not only the box, but his childhood of which he has no memory. While battling his obsessive compulsive disorder along the way, he encounters characters from all walks of life and gets a glimpse of the real America in this poignant tale of adventure, redemption, and self discovery.
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50,036 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 14 51
Wonderful job. :)
50,056 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 14 52
It looks great! I love how symmetric everything looks.
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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed & that necessary.
- Margaret Atwood
131,014 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 14 55
The simple cover and title make you want to pick it up and wonder what it's all about. Nice job.
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50,193 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 15 03
That is stunning! I like how cheeky you are to make a cover like that for someone with OCD. I don't even have OCD but I'm twitching at the different boxes :P Great job!
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Nov 3, 2009 - 15 08
Great job, once again! I like how this one really get this point across. All it takes is one look at the cover to think "Someone's got OCD."
----------A Novel Point of View: A Blog of Writing and Insanity
55,736 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 15 17
Another great job! I love the magnet-looking lettering :)
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Nov 3, 2009 - 15 25
This is my favourite cover so far. Nice work fwis :)
----------2006 - Leaving Mirtan (Winner)
2009 - One Day at a Time
50,076 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 15 25
Thank you so much Chris, you have no idea how great it feels to see this!
----------Alexander DeLuca
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50,416 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 16 15
spectacular!
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2009 -- The Princess and the Pee Test (???)
2008 -- Karma's Bitch -- WINNER
2007 -- Hell's Belles -- WINNER
2006 -- Whyte's Mountain -- WINNER
50,416 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 16 15
spectacular!
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2009 -- The Princess and the Pee Test (???)
2008 -- Karma's Bitch -- WINNER
2007 -- Hell's Belles -- WINNER
2006 -- Whyte's Mountain -- WINNER
14,675 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 16 27
I Love it! It's great! It really makes me want to read it. It sort of reminds me of Paper Towns by John Green... I don't know why.
14,675 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 16 27
I Love it! It's great! It really makes me want to read it. It sort of reminds me of Paper Towns by John Green... I don't know why.
15,510 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 16 46
Nice subtleties...the D makes me antsy. A deserving story, congrats Alexander!
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Nov 3, 2009 - 17 00
love it(:
50,005 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 17 48
Yes, that would agitate!
50,698 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 18 47
i very much like it.
----------A bored young girl lives through the apocalypse only to be rescued by her imaginary brother from his roommate’s sister.
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13,133 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 18 51
Another excellent cover, it makes me want to pick up the book and the awsome summary is bonus. Congrads deluca.
----------"Writer's Block n. When charecters get fed up with all you put them through and go on strike"-Unknown
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25,037 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 19 02
Every cover just keeps getting better and better! Just incredible!
----------NaNoWriMo '09: The Killing Game (Epic Fail)
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15,712 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 19 23
Nice to see you're keeping up with a cover a day! Interesting cover for an interesting story. Good luck to you both!
----------Cups of Coffee: 3
Cups of Green Tea: 3
Pumpkin Spice Frappuccinos: 1
Chapters: 4
Moments of Insanity: 1.5
18,230 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 19 34
The only thing I can find fault with here is that the cut letters should be more symmetrically rigid to the grid, the sloping cut and uneveness of the letters is nice but detract a bit from the grid and two different fonts in the headers is a little bit jarring.. though on second reflection funnily enough I think the Grid word is perfect as its cut evenly along the top and aligned that way so the different widths don't matter so much, perhaps because the letters are wider and theres more a sense of square and rectangles...
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11,016 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 19 44
Wow. This one is fabulous.
----------"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?’" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here."
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53,740 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 21 12
Love the way this cover is set up. :) Nice work!
----------2009: Façade (won)
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2007: Tales of Cadence (won)
56,181 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 21 31
I adore this cover! The story sounds really good too!
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Nov 3, 2009 - 21 34
I like this. I like this a lot. Though I am failing to place exactly /what/ it is I love about this over, I think it is just the quirkiness of it. This is rocking! Good going~
8,415 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 22 37
I like this cover, and I enjoy the concept of your story even more. :)
53,034 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 22 39
I love this cover. I would pick up this book just from the cover. And the story description is so interesting to me.
----------I am, therefore I write.
Write on!!!
Finish it!!!
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50,038 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 00 04
I like how well the cover works with the description. It's very ordered, and the fact that the author's name is broken to keep the order is clever.
I don't think I'd pick the book up, myself. But I've always been artsy-fartsy and liked cover art that pops out at you. >.< Yes, yes, "a book by it's cover" and all that. x3 I can't help it.
Still, great work!
----------"Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings."
50,240 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 03 30
This is fantastic, I don't know how you find time to do a cover every day. I've neglected almost a full week's worth of homework just trying to keep above the 1667 words a day mark! (I'm sorry, I don't have the will power to resist the delete button!)
I think that everyone should set themselves challenges, it's not only fun and exciting, but it also develops their skills and (for these particular types of challenges) the ability to work to deadlines.
----------Insanity is relief. It is the blissful ignorance of the real world. I have been tortured throughout my life and it is only when I lost my mind that I finally became happy. Don't pity me, for I pity you.
10,103 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 03 31
that's pretty awesome ... I love the symmetry and how that in turn relates to the MC.
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Nov 4, 2009 - 03 33
Don't delete! Replace, replace, replace! that should be your mantra! LOL
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