My ideas for the cover of book 1 were related to conveying the concept of having Laurielle build a miniature version of fairyland under domes in Detroit -- and catching glimpses of Detroit from that mini-fairyland. Here were some candidates.
The trees in these pictures were photographed in the White Mountains of NH.
I drove around places near me to try to find row houses that would be suitable for conveying urban decay in my fictional Detroit. Obviously, row houses in the NYC metro area don't look like Detroit. That's one thing I'm realizing is that even in fairly unremarkable areas, the architecture is nevertheless unique. Anyway, I created a google photos album with some of the pictures I took. As you may notice, I ended up preferring one block in Yonkers, which had a particularly decayed looking building. Here's the link to my album
google photos album of row house photos
I also found a couple of places in Harlem, which might have been suitable, that were interesting, including one building that was isolated in a lot, just like Laurielle's building in the book, and even surrounded by a community garden. Here are some images
I ended up going with the one in Yonkers -- but, if this book gets made into a movie, This would be a great place to film
I also thought this backyard was promising
And this abandoned building
I could go back and change the cover. Kindle will let me do that. I may have gotten unduly excited playing with transparency in my Sketchbook Pro program -- and let that get me carried away in what I chose as a cover.
I wanted to have a picture of Laurielle, but when I tried, that exceed my artistic abilities -- or so I thought, but maybe I could do something with distortion, the way my son taught me with the third book, to make her face so terribly thin. This was as far as I got:
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