When me and Anne Perreault started to discuss the book there were several things that she wanted. One was an aircraft carrier, another was a jet. Through talking together about the heart of the book I found out that the book was about a navy man and his family. The main colors that I used for this cover was red, which intensives the mood of the book. Through research I saw that many books about the military/spies had the main characters at the top of the page and in the middle was something that divided the top from the bottom. It could be a box of a color, solid or transparent. On this the main title goes. I chose to have a white blur in the middle. For the text I chose a thick and bold typeface to give the impression of danger. The title has pieces missing from it, like it got shot at, There is a target underneath it, made in Illustrator. On the bottom I put the jet that the author wanted on it. A water background was placed underneath it (the book is about the navy after all). On the top I put the two main characters. The woman in the book is lonely and missing her husband who is a navy jet fighter. So I chose a woman for the front cover with the loneliness and longing written on her face. For the man I he has a fade on him to give the impression that he is not really there but the woman is always thinking about him. He is looking like he is thinking deeply. I like having the people on the book covers not smiling but showing their emotions through other expressions. If they are happy have their eyes be lit up and a happy look be on their face (not necessarily a smile).

For the spine and back cover I had started out with a normal medium red color. I bordered it with a yellow strip on both the bottom and top of the back. I put a catch phrase onto the top of the yellow strip. I added an aircraft carrier over this and put the blending mode to ‘Overlay’. On the spine I put ‘book 2’ on it and the author’s name and the title. But one more thing needed to done with the book. To create an even more intense feeling I put a scratched texture over the whole book and put the color mode to ‘Overlay’.