This was the original cover to my first book. We made it all by ourselves (with the help of a friend). Spent a lot of time driving the countryside snapping photos of fields, cattle, flowers, trees, houses, horses. You get the idea.

I still like it, but about a year later we decided to get more professional and hired Streetlight Graphics to re-format the book and create a new cover. If I remember correctly, their first try was of a giant golf ball (because some of the story concerns the golf course that was mistakenly built on a wealthy reclusive woman’s ranch. I didn’t keep that so I can’t show you. And I don’t remember how much back and forth we did before coming up with the silhouette idea you see above.

The idea didn’t come from me (other than adding the golf clubs and bag, I think.) Usually I have an idea in mind, and then my sister adds her input, then we see what Glendon can do. But on my first novel, Streetlight Graphics was on its own.