My Friend Ray book cover design

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Hello, my author name is Ellie Lynn and I would like a book cover designed for my upcoming novel called My Friend Ray. It's a fiction based off of true events. I really like the idea of rough scribble art of a black cat wearing a red bow tie with a thin elderly man with messy hair and a cane. However, I'm open to other types of designs as well. The story is has dark undertones but is lighthearted at times.
Tagline: "An imaginary cat. A dying man. A story you’ll never forget."
Updated ** Here is the book blurb:
Based on True Events – A Story of Love, Loss, and an Imaginary Cat Who Made Everything Real
In a quiet nursing home, where the days blur and memories fade, Ray is an aging man facing the final chapter of his life - until a sarcastic, wisecracking, and entirely imaginary cat named Theo leaps into his life.
Narrated by Theo himself (because who else could do it justice?), this poignant, hilarious, and unexpectedly life-affirming tale follows Ray as he wrestles with pain, memory, loneliness—and the big questions about what it all means in the end. With Theo by his side, Ray embarks on a final adventure: making peace with his past, forging unlikely friendships, and discovering that even the most broken moments can be stitched together with laughter, love, and the purr of a good companion.
But as Ray nears the edge of life’s final chapter, the line between the real and the imagined begins to blur—and something unimaginable is waiting just beyond it.
Heartwarming, darkly funny, and deeply human, My Friend Ray is a story of second chances, invisible friends, and the surprising ways we matter—right up to the very end.
Attached are some styles that I like.
my website is www.ellielynn.com
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- Black cat with red bow tie