For example, Home Not Home. I spent hours prepping one using this photo of the Free Derry wall. I took it in 2002...and thought it might work, but it came out all wrong. Even with the image softened to 50% opacity and in monochrome, it was busy and confusing.
I tried removed the lamp posts and fencing, since those weren't there in 1981, but it didn't help. Nor could i find a good font for the title.
I've also thought about just using the title and my name on the front cover, colored in some combination of the Union Jack...but that's red, white and blue. Like the American flag. Northern Ireland doesn't have its own flag, like Scotland and Wales do. I'd have to do the Irish, which isn't really correct.
Another possibility is digging up images from each period to use as the background, then faking a cover that's been torn off in strips to reveal it, with the title on the remains of the cover. If that makes any sense. I dunno. Can't see the reason for it.
The hardback covers are a progression of Brendan from boy to damaged young man to lost soul, and I like how they turned out. But they're far more subtle than what I want for the paperbacks.
I guess I'll cast around in my Facebook groups and see if anyone is open to doing the covers for a nominal rate. I won't not pay them, but I haven't got all that much cash to work with.
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