Create a book cover for the novel Red Clay

Individual writer; no industry. Target audience: Consumers of mainstream fiction.

- Book cover for my novel: RED CLAY - Include title and author: Red Clay, Heather Flor - Needs to be PDF format with the exact sizing to be uploaded to Createspace for a 6" x 9" book of approximately 190 pages with "cream" paper. Please see Createspace guidelines for sizing. Guidelines are here: https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/CoverPDF.jsp - Needs to include the following book plot preview on the back: Her parents were kind enough to call her Sweet Tea instead of using the name they wrote on her birth certificate: Thelma. Tea kept stretching away from her roots when she dropped the “Sweet” from her name in high school and became Mrs. Lopez two years after college graduation. Living outside of Washington, DC, Tea Lopez finally had the start she had always wanted in life. Until Miguel Lopez died at 29. Unable to face her husband’s untimely death and unwilling to return to her hometown, Tea flees on an unlikely mission in West Africa pursuing her passion of working with teachers like herself. Isolated from her parents and friends in the States, Tea leads workshops in struggling schools outside the Nigerian capital city of Abuja. As her friendship with Ben, a Nigerian man with a mysterious past, deepens, Tea grapples with the fact that she’s run from hurt, disappointment, and pain throughout her life. She ran from the South. She ran from her husband’s death. And when Tea stumbles into the center of a violent national conflict in Nigeria, everyone around her begs her to run for her life. Tea thinks she should stand and fight, but it may finally be time to run toward home. With her options for escaping the country alive dwindling, Tea must find a way to help Ben, to honor Miguel’s memory, and to reconnect with family and friends. But none of that will be possible unless she can save herself. - Needs to include author bio: Heather Flor has a B.A. in English and in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Duke University, and an Ed.S. in Higher Education Administration from The George Washington University. Red Clay is her first novel. She lives in Leesburg, VA with her husband, Carlos, their son, Silas, and their two dogs.

I would like the cover to relate to the content of the book - please see the plot preview. Also, there's a connection in the novel about the red clay in North Carolina and in Nigeria. It has a similar look. If that could be worked into the design somehow, it would be great. I'll include a picture that I found online. Other similar photos, drawings, etc. would work. I'm flexible on fonts, etc. I just want the cover to look professional and clean. I will be printing the cover on matte paper. Themes/ideas for the cover: - Underlying human similarity in spite of racial, religious, other differences - Strong woman, overcoming challenges - Settings: Nigeria, North Carolina, Northern VA outside DC

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