Goblin Market - Book Cover 2

I've decided to focus my freelance graphic design work on designing book covers for self-published and POD authors. I did this design of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems as a sample for my portfolio.

This is the modern, "avant garde" version--I also did a more classical version of the same cover:


Resources:
Fruit photo and pomegranate seeds: Stock.Xchng
Bitten apple: ~dazzle-textures
Christina Rossetti drawing: Wikipedia
About the author text adapted from Wikipedia.

Photoshop CS3, February 2010