I've been playing around with new covers for the City of Sails Series. I found an image of the Auckland skyline to use as a backdrop. Perfect! On each of the five covers I've changed the colours so they're different, and with different characters but they're clearly a series. I really like the pinky one for All About Sage . I've also seen a trend where books in a series will have only slight differences in the cover. I spoke to a cover designer at the recent romance writers conference here in New Zealand, who said the cartoon-style covers are showing no signs of losing popularity just yet. Hence the new covers! I'm hoping to upload them all before the end of this month.
Photo taken on my grandparent's farm when I was possibly four or five years old. My grandfather was killed a month before I turned six, so it has to be before that. I just look kind of excited and brave to put my hand on the side of the cow. I love the hand on the hip, too! I was thinking that I maybe remember when it was taken, but I think that's the curse of the photograph memory. If I truly remembered it, I'd remember who took the photo (possibly my father) but I have no memory of that at all. I do know I loved going out to the farm, loved the animals from the Border Leicester sheep to the milking cow, to riding on the tractor and all the farm stuff. Good times.