By Mary Jo
Book covers are an enduring subject of interest and debate for both authors and readers. Receiving one's first book cover is a moment of high anticipation.
Is the cover attractive? Does it accurately represent the type of book it is?
Do the models look anything like the characters within the covers?
Does the heroine have three arms? (Yes, that happened, and no one noticed until the book came out. <G>)
Photo above by Beth Miller
by Mary Jo
It is not news that Britain is an island. Not just an island, but part of an archipelago, a wide flung collection of islands including Ireland, the Hebrides that are the wild western fringe of Scotland, Shetland and Orkney away to the north, the Scilly Isles scattered southwest from Cornwall, the yachting Isle of Wight to the south, and many more: there are two major islands, Great Britain and Ireland, some middling sized ones, and over 6000 smaller ones, some not much larger than rocks, but still… (Photo at left from Wikipedia by Jeff Schmaltz, Modis/NASA.)
