Podcast cover for motivational speaker/personal brand with book and artistic font

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I'm a motivational speaker and personal brand launching a podcast. My brand is called Author Your Life: it inspires people to change their life narrative and become heroes of their story.
With the title of Author Your Life, I would like a design based around a book. I also really like the colors of blue and white, so it would be good to base the design around those colours.
I have attached a few stock images that I like the concept of, that you could play around with and build on. The one with the green background in particular I like.
I would like the background to be blue, perhaps with a variation between slightly different shades of blue.
I thought about having a large white title on the top with a "block" style of font: "Author Your Life"
with a smaller subtitle on the bottom in a "script" style of font: "With David McCrae"
I've made a mock-up in one of the designs to help give you an idea.
The podcast resolutions are 3000x3000 in jpeg or png format.
Target Market(s)
Female, 25-45yr,
Colors
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Upmarket
Requirements
Must have
- Colour, nothing too bland. Clear, bold title.
Nice to have
- Creativity with the book, something that looks a little different