Highlight Publishing Cover Design - Suspence Fiction

The Skinny Girl

Steve Matthews

Steve Matthews was born in the UK in 1953, migrating to Australia in 1985. At the age of 55, he sold his business interests to fulfill a lifetime’s ambition to write. Since then Steve’s acclaimed children’s books have been published in Australia, UK, Canada and the USA and his work in children’s literacy at home and abroad has been acknowledged in the Australian Parliament.

'The Skinny Girl' is Steve’s first adult novel. He now writes full time from a 90 year old cottage in the grounds of a beautiful farm he shares with his wife Diane and a variety of animals, outside Sydney.

The novel deals explores:
1. Domestic violence
2. Abuse
3. Women’s issues

BACK-COVER BLURB
Shy, petite Daisy Croucher lives in other people’s shadows and is practically invisible, even in her own family. She is surprised and flattered when popular pub local Jeff Singleton looks her way. ‘Skinny Minnie,’ he calls her.

Jeff has a golden rule when it comes to women – never keep one for more than thirty days. Then he meets Daisy.

Life with Jeff is a roller-coaster ride, the likes of which Daisy never imagined. She soon discovers that marriage consists of more than playing happy families in the suburbs. Daisy’s marriage has its secrets.

Raw, powerful and confronting, ‘The Skinny Girl’ positions the reader to walk a mile in Daisy’s shoes. Can Daisy step out of the shadows and shine?

21 years and over.
Adult readers interested in serious women's issues and definitely not women looking for a light romance novel.

Colo palette:
Possibly elements of white and yellow, shadows, dark elements and shades, traces of red using CMYK

Highlight Publishing is interested in either:
• a symbolic or abstract cover design
Or
• a literal design with symbolic elements

The design needs a modern gritty feel to it.

The design should convey a dark mood touched by positive elements.

Designers should consider the imagery embedded in the back-cover blurb.

Soft pastels, light-hearted styled typography, and anything that suggests that the novel is optimistic.