The Expatriate(Book 1)(2020.3.~2020.7.)(new version)

Guess what? The Expatriate's cover was reborn-and this time, at least in my opinion, it came out in better shape.

This cover was made by myself almost a year after the Epxtraite was finished; I am preparing it for the 2021 Wattys. Though the Epxtarite didn't make its way to the winner's stage, I'm just trying it once more, trying to reduce all the minor errors it had in both grammatical and implicate aspects.

During the year between finishing the book and preparing it for its second Wattys, I learnt of various designing tools and trained myself in making stuff with them. And this was the result-can't stop thinking thanks to Canva and the other Wattys users for motivation.

Well, this cover signifies more stuff and lets yet-to-read peeps to take a tiny peep into the story itself. The left 'window' points to the rigorous journey Alex has to survive once he's banished-it's also this journey during which Lewis and his Rebel troops finds him and introduces him to the world of other Prodigies(...aaand Lyra, of course). The right window signifies the city-the capital, to be exact. The city in the window doesn't simply represent Alex's home, however-it represents the land he returns once again for reasons he had never imagined of before: to stop the Rebels from massacring citizens, and, of course, to bring about the Revolution and stop the Prod-hate. This city means both déjà vu and a will to start fresh. (I was a bit disappointed to not find an image of a skyscraper or a rooftop, for it would symbolize Alex and Lyra being together. Still, covers are meant to reveal only half-I think this cover is enough.)

Oh, and lastly, the rocket and rotating stars and planets placed near the title symbolizes Ryan the Martian Alex Mars, and both of their important roles in the story.

The cover of the Luminary is supposed to be quite similar to this cover, by the way. I'm planning to post it right away.