My journey, to find the perfect cover for my latest memoir, Betweenwhiles

The challenge

Amazon Kindle has a brilliant wizard for uploading new kindle books on Amazon KDP. But, I could not find an appropriate book cover in their design feature. So I have been using a temporary cover, while I set about to find the right theme.

Finding Rachel

Then one day in December, I chatted to the landlord of our local pub. I commented on the brilliant artwork on his beer- pump, handles.

Chris explained his wife Rachel, is a graphic designer. She had created them for him. Casually, I asked if Rachel designed book covers. Chris said he would inquire.

Bearing in mind that Rachel, was due her first child, imagine my delight, when she accepted the commision.

Our design journey

Staring out

I was away, traveling, so our working relationship was long distance.

Rachel asked me for some ideas. And I gave a few. The book is set in the Art Deco Era, so themes and colours from there were my choices.

Next step

Rachel soon came back with two amazing designs. One was geometric, like the one pictured. The other included a Swastikas emblem. This emphasized the book's theme, rebellion against Nazism.

I put the draft pictures on Facebook.com, to see what my readers thought of the designs.

An interesting dilemma
A wonderful friend and beta reader of my work, from Germany, pointed out an issue. Swastikas are banned there.

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