Front cover art for my latest book
The front cover art for my latest book “The Amish Midwife’s Bargain” (available in November) has been finalized.
I stinkin’ love this cover. Also, I believe this is, hands down, my favorite book I’ve written so far, and I’m pleased the cover art reflects it. The hero, incidentally, has a severe facial disfigurement, so my editor suggested he be featured from the back.
What’s interesting is how this cover evolved. For every book, authors must submit a detailed “Art Fact Sheet” to help the art department design an appropriate cover. Among the information we submit are sample photos of real people who resemble the characters, as well as background images resembling three different scenes in the book.
For obvious reasons, photos of Amish people in precise settings are hard to find, so most of the time I simply use “English” people. However I was fortunate enough to come across this photo and instantly uploaded it to the Art Fact Sheet:
(I kinda wish they’d kept the Jersey cows from the original photo instead of turning them into Holsteins on the cover, but whatever.)
You can see how well the art department blended the original photo with the elements of the story.
An earlier version of the cover (which I’m not permitted to post) had some problems. Per the email I wrote to my editor: “I have two smallish concerns. One, it looks like the hero is wearing jeans and a belt. The Amish wear neither. Perhaps the art department could remove the belt and stitching, and just make his trousers a solid color? And two, there is an electric fan to the right of the Hero’s head. (If I peer closely, it looks like a couple of electric ceiling lights too, one of them to the right of the heroine’s head.) Obviously the Amish wouldn’t have anything electric, so hopefully those can be removed. Otherwise the artwork is beyond beautiful – the colors, the postures, everything.”
The final cover addressed every one of those concerns, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the result. I have to admit, the art department at Harlequin absolutely rocks.
I thought you’d appreciate a little glimpse into how a book cover evolves.
Source: http://www.rural-revolution.com/2023/06/front-cover-art-for-my-latest-book.html
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