A cover for Melange Books’s YA imprint, Fire and Ice. This is the fourth book in The Horse Rescuers series, and so we wanted to keep the style the same as the other books. In this case, we kept the same layout and font. We tried a couple different colors as the main color scheme (each book is a bit different), and ultimately settled on the gray-blue.
For the horse image, I used the art form to reference the kind of horse the author wanted, and then I created a lightbox on Dreamstime with several horse options (and I checked to see what general season I should be looking for). The author selected two of those images, which I made rough proofs. Once we narrowed it down, I finalized the cover.
This is the end result:
Rough version of the back cover (subject to change per the Publisher’s needs):
Stock photo from Dreamstime.
http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-bay-horse-image3555999 – horse
Stephanie Flint - Author and Artist 