PROJECT DESCRIPTION

14 year old Lacey May Herd is growing up in drought stricken Peaches, California. Lacey’s alcoholic mother has run off. The area Lacey lives in is bankrupt due to the once lucrative raisin fields, now left dried and scorched by the sun. In the town’s desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret “assignments,” to bring the rain. Abandoned, Lacey endures the appalling acts of the men followingVern. The setting is a rural farming town and the story is peppered with garish details like a magenta hearse, sex work, metallic gold robes, neon grass. The author wanted to see some of this reflected on the cover. I decided to create a cover bathed in “God glitter” which Pastor Vern wore in his hair, smeared on his cheeks along with his gold robes and the dramatic rain of sparkle that would fall from the rafters of the church coating the floor in a permanent varnish of glitter.

I decided to break the original title Godshot for a large impactful treatment to signify a lead book by this debut author. The production effects of thick raised varnish was created that covered only some of the granules of glitter giving the actual books a tactile feel along with an eye catching videos on social media that popped up everywhere.

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Creative Director: Nicole Caputo

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Book Designer: Wah-Ming Chang

Jacket/Cover Designer: Nicole Caputo

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