The Memory Keepers

by Nina Waddington

Genre

YA Contemporary

What Was Done

Interior Design
ePub Production

What They Wanted

The author had a young adult manuscript and a cover she really loved. She came to me to see if I could take those elements and tie them in together.

A hand drawn image of a lake at night with pine trees in the distance. In the foreground, you can just see the edge of a deck. In the middle of the cover is an image of a cross cut of a piece of wood so you can see the wood rings. Above that is the title THE MEMORY KEEPERS and the author's name, NINA WADDINGTON.

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The Project

The author really wanted that piece of wood that’s featured on her cover somehow incorporated into the interior. I believe we had discussed possibly using it as a paragraph break. After learning that the book was intended for the YA audience and taking a closer look at the cover, I had this idea of using a wood look for the chapter title pages. Because it was a YA book, I also felt that I could play around with the headers and footers a bit more. So I added some leaf wreaths around the page numbers and headers to tie in the feeling of nature.