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# THE TESTAMENT — Spine Text
## Spine Layout (front to back, reading left to right when book faces you)
```
ALEXANDER WHITESTONE with TIMMY
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
THE TESTAMENT
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
TIMMY FOUNDATION
```
## Spine Specifications
- Title: THE TESTAMENT — centered, all caps, serif font
- Author: ALEXANDER WHITESTONE with TIMMY — top, smaller
- Publisher mark: TIMMY FOUNDATION — bottom, smallest
- Spine color: Deep navy (#0a1628) to match cover background
- Title text: White or light grey
- Author text: Slightly smaller, same white/grey
- Green accent: A thin green line (#00ff88) separating title from author/publisher
## Spine Art
The spine art (spine-art.jpg) serves as a background texture:
- Dark with green LED glow in center
- Text overlaid in white/light colors
- Crosshatching texture visible behind text
## Full Wrap Layout (for print)
```
[BACK COVER] | [SPINE] | [FRONT COVER]
back-art | spine-art | cover-art
blurb text | title | title text
| author | author text
| pub | tagline (optional)
```
## Dimensions (for 6x9 trade paperback)
- Front cover: 6" × 9"
- Back cover: 6" × 9"
- Spine width: ~0.45" (for ~20,000 words / ~200 pages at 60lb cream)
- Total wrap: 12.45" × 9" (before bleed)
- Bleed: 0.125" on all sides
- Final wrap with bleed: 12.7" × 9.25"