:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/206/20646/2064643/61ff2913-1bf5-4dd9-abe8-65b975440742.jpg "n Gifts of Disruption, Wei-Li Shao reflects on a period when the structures that quietly organized his life—health, achievement, independence—collapsed after a life-threatening diagnosis, brain surgery with uncertain outcomes, and a recovery that forced him to reconsider how he had been living. What follows is not just a story about illness, but an exploration of how meaning, assumptions, and priorities shift when certainty recedes.
Written with clarity and restraint, this memoir examines the space between control and surrender, ambition and presence, fear and gratitude. Shao considers how identity, responsibility, and purpose are tested—and how disruption can create the rare opportunity to step back and see more clearly.")
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:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/86/86187/attachment_86187089 "My aim was to create a contemporary cover that conveys a lighthearted feeling, combining the elements that the client requested in their brief.
I drew a silhouette of the author from a photo that she provided, and used blue - teal tones for the background with a subtle mandala element.
For the title and author name i chose a script font that i manipulated in order to add an original touch to it, by making the words connected at some point, and the end lines continuing outside the frame.")
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:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/139/13901/1390199/02e129f0-5fc2-48a0-a694-8fe36e41eb98.jpg "A memoir")
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:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/53/5303/530333/ba66733d-d152-4077-9e25-c25c214fd054.jpg "A personal account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and the China before and after.")
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Set in South Africa during the 1960s and 1970s, this is the first book in the ‘Not Another Day’ series. Son of a lighthouse keeper, the author and his family lived an idyllic life along the coastline, before being forced into the city for schooling. This memoir chronicles his coming of age as we hike over the mountains of the Western Cape, march through the trials of military conscription, and surf with him on waves of political change. We follow, as he struggles to fit into ‘normal’ life until, in a dramatic and defining moment, he breaks the chains of his self-imposed prison. Things don’t go as planned.")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/154/15468/1546810/15e7b505-bb9c-4d3c-9308-2e37902a5bd5.jpg "A humorous travel memoir")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/181/18142/1814285/cd807881-1c32-4016-8d43-daef985442fc.jpg "A memoir by author Dr. Phyllis Bivins-Hudson.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/83/83180/attachment_83180859 "Catchy cover for humorous memoir")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/158/158665/attachment_158665025 "This book is for young people who are no strangers to anxiety or being uncomfortable with uncertainty. It is also for older adults who appreciate psychological memoir and tales of dysfunction and promising talent. Regardless of age, fans of thrilling, sharp memoirs will enjoy this book.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/114/114797/attachment_114797094 "a tale of honorable military commitment, love, and conflict for those reconstructing the U.S. military in the last days of the Vietnam War and the decades following as terrorism redefined enemies foreign and domestic. I really wanted to provide a design that was original in thought but bold, classy and to the point. I wanted it to be powerful.")
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:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/118/118580/attachment_118580613 "It is Best to Die in Your Sleep is a collection of humorous, self-deprecating personal essays, fictional autobiography, short stories, and food recipes. The book is dry dark and arch – leaning to the absurd. The book contains a little bit of everything - a collage about a clinically-depressive, gay man's life.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/161/161965/attachment_161965682 "Book cover design.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/110/110447/attachment_110447458 "The author always felt like a black sheep growing up - and she had a vision problem, with a perpetual squint. She loved this design with the little black lamb looking on in the background to the other family members (there were two parents and two other siblings in the family, signified by the front sheep). She also loves the color purple, so we incorporated that into the titling.")
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:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/81/81419/attachment_81419858 "The contest holder had an idea in mind regarding the style and visuals they wanted for the cover. I tried to come up with a concept that was modern, but not a typical business-style layout. I was looking for the fresh approach. I found imagery that related to the restaurant in question and was able to blend together the idea into a design that was uncluttered and direct.")
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:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/47/4733/473361/6caee407-26eb-4862-adfd-a3e2d801b165.jpg "\"Frontal Matter: Glue Gone Wild\". It's a a fun, funny, and heartbreakingly real memoir of a woman's fight against terminal brain cancer.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/159/159347/attachment_159347998 "A journey from abandonment to belonging, set against America's unforgiving interior landscapes. This memoir chronicles a man's transformation from foster care and institutional failure to military service, spiritual awakening, and the creation of the stable family he never had. Written with the moral complexity and haunted grace of Southern Gothic tradition transplanted to the Mountain West and Midwest, it's a story of resilience where redemption is earned through reckoning with harsh beauty—both geographical and psychological. Think \"The Glass Castle\" meets \"Hillbilly Elegy\" with the literary sophistication of Cormac McCarthy's American landscapes.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/126/126097/attachment_126097296 "This cover helped the author realize that what she thought she wanted was not what she wanted at all!")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/92/92179/attachment_92179218 "I made the design concept by keeping in mind the seriousness of the topic. I made the design exactly what CH had in mind.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/43/43932/attachment_43932359 "Winning cover design for the life story of a Greek man brought up in the USA and describes the many adventures he goes through, ultimately returning to Greece and falling in love as an old man. The story has a bit of Forrest Gump about it as the main character ends up in many different jobs through good luck.")
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:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/106/106494/attachment_106494183 "Due to the topic, I wanted to give the author a bit of an angsty / yet artsy cover option. It's attention-grabbing and different. She loved it, requested it be in purple, and selected it to dress her book!")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/155/155758/attachment_155758028 "Nowhere is memoir for Christians who have gone through trauma and want freedom.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/90/90145/attachment_90145357 "Collection of short stories")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/114/114710/attachment_114710865 "In a world of minimalist covers, I decided to go for a bright, eye-catching colorful cover, with a bulletin board theme.
This cover is available if you'd like to save yourself the contest fees; we can personalize it for you in a 1:1 project!")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/103/103879/attachment_103879519 "This has a beautiful, fresh, artistic vibe. It looks young, free, a bit dreamy.
This design is available and unused if you'd like to see it adapted for your book. Save yourself the contest fees; shoot me a message and we'll open up a 1:1!")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/133/133652/attachment_133652876 "Book cover design for an eating disorder recovery memoir.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/88/88719/attachment_88719041 "For a topic like this, a descriptive image is definitely worth 1000 words. In this image, the child can be seen holding her hand up but this can be taken two ways; \"Daddy, stop!\" Or, in response to the title which presumably deals with a Heavenly Father, \"Daughter, Arise.\"
The cover will definitely stand out from the rest.
This design is available and unused if you'd like to see it adapted for your book. Save yourself the contest fees; shoot me a message and we'll open up a 1:1!")
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:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/102/102348/attachment_102348462 "I am very interested in this book as I have also been a Registered Nurse for many years! I wanted it to not look like a \"business book\", so to speak; to look more INTERESTING and intriguing. This very artistic cover accomplishes that.
This design is available and unused if you'd like to see it adapted for your book. Save yourself the contest fees; shoot me a message and we'll open up a 1:1!")
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:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/128/128629/attachment_128629809 "I wanted to offer something that is beautiful, easy to read, and has a sense of emotion. This woman in front of a waterfall emoted that to me, and the design stretches across the back cover as well. The text is interesting, friendly, elegant, and easy to read.")
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:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/54/54248/attachment_54248448 "For Kokoda Trial, one important request was for the designer to use two images provided by Rosemary and Mr. Richardson. The first was the photo of a memorial plaque designed by the author himself. The second was a partial map of the Kokoda Track as it was in WWII, and showing Templeton's Crossing. Historical memoirs are amongst my favorite books to design. I love them because they tell the true stories of those people who made a difference. But there's always a challenge when designing a WWII memoir. And that's avoiding to make it look like a WWII fiction book. It really helped that Rosemary provided real-life materials. This way, my focused was on finding a clean layout to tie in all the elements. I avoided the textured, grungy look because those effects are more suited to fiction books. Instead, I created a clean layout with emphasis on the emotional, personal side of the story.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/101/101678/attachment_101678963 "Adventure story that takes you deep into the Amazon jungle and the inner world of Ayahuasca.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/102/102828/attachment_102828164 "I wanted to offer something bright, uplifting, playful, and attention-grabbing! Instead of going with a \"typical business book\" I took an artsier approach. Stardust is drifting out of the bird cage; representing freedom.
Need a whimsical book cover for your creation? This design is available and unused if you'd like to see it adapted for your book. Save yourself the contest fees; shoot me a message and we'll open up a 1:1!")
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