Watercolour by Heather More
Authentic and quirky ~ Heather More’s watercolour of Pettycur caught my eye for my new tome. I wanted an informal cover which summed up my life in Fife and bearing in mind we lived in Kinghorn throughout the winter of 2013, 2014, this was just right.
Heather More is a Scottish artist who trained in Glasgow but is now living in Barcelona. She is the daughter of a lovely neighbour of mine who talked of her so proudly – rightly so! I was browsing through the link to her website one day and saw this painting of Pettycur Bay, a view I looked at every day from our lounge window in the flat which we were renting for a year.
As soon as I spotted it I thought – PERFECT!
I sent Heather an email and asked if she could possibly add a figure with a ruck-sack wearing a cerise bobble hat – me! So here we are. Wonderful.
Many a time I used to put on my hat and gloves and go for a walk along the beach, or pause a wee while sitting on the rocks in the winter sunshine sheltered by the cliff. Walking further along the coastal path I’d have my ruck-sack on too, for a bottle of water, sandwich and my wet weather gear. I’d set off, sometime on my own but frequently with my husband on his days off.
From Redundancy to Rejuvenation tells my story but in quite a different way ~ more news soon (if you’ll excuse the pun) will be available initially in paperback from Amazon from 23rd November.
Diana Jackson 
That’s a fantastic watercolour Diana, no wonder you wanted to use it for your new book, it looks perfect for the cover 🙂 And the book itself sounds great too 🙂
I was so pleased with the cover. I do enjoy aiming for something a bit different and one which would be appreciated and picked up in a bookshop.
It would certainly catch my eye Diana 🙂 I think you’re right about a book cover, it is a very important part of the book writing process – I often wonder at how many books I’ve missed reading, because the cover didn’t inspire me to pick up the book in the first case!
I now need to visit a few book shops to drum some interest but the book launch needs to be planned first. The writing process certainly does not end with the writing!
Alas Diana, now starts the hard work of all the marketing etc!! Good luck, I’m sure you’ll do a wonderful job with it! 🙂
Yes, that’s the hard bit!
I didn’t read your post properly Diana, that’s excellent that she added a drawing of you as well!! 🙂 (I was just looking at Heather’s website and noticed there was no figure on the beach of the original)
No, Heather adapted the watercolour for the book. Her figures are occasionally though the book too. They look so like me 🙂
That’s brilliant Diana 🙂