Women's fiction bookcover in peacock colours

Sandpaper for the Soul: a tale of two sisters

Lorna Howarth

Lorna Howarth is a writer, editor and publisher specialises in books that reimagine the world. lornahowarth.com

An orphaned girl in Sri Lanka writes to a her favourite magazine asking for help to buy a sewing machine, an act that kindles a life-long friendship between two women separated by a vast ocean. When both women become enmeshed in twists of fate beyond their control, their sisterhood grows ever stronger, in this true story of love, loss and redemption.

Contemporary women's fiction – global audience.

Couverture souple

Cover Image (See photo attached) A young Sri Lankan girl sits behind an old fashioned USHA sewing machine. The material she is sewing falls out of the front of the machine like a cascade of peacock feathers (or material with peacock feathers on.) At the bottom of the book, the material turns into the ocean and the peacock feathers into fish. Behind her, like ghosts or dancing flames in white are other women, vague figures but they surround her, though she doesn't know it. There could be a peacock on a fence behind her, or a leopard lurking somewhere. Alternatively, I would be interested in a graphic/abstract interpretation. I prefer simplicity to complex/over-cluttered covers, so my cover idea could be simplified. Key symbols in the book are the sewing machine, a peacock, a leopard, a fish, the sea. Preferred colours: dark blues, dark greens (peacock colours) golds, white, The mood of the cover could have an element of fantasy to it. It's set in Sri Lanka (partly) so there could be palm trees fringing the image or on the back cover. Peacock feathers are a key motif. I'd like it to be quite colourful - colours taken from those of a peacock's feather - and contemporary. The main font should be contemporary, sans serif. The size of the book is 5x8" (126mm x 204mm). The spine width is approx 1" or 25mm

Avoid florescent colours. Avoid pop-art.