What I was hoping for in a book cover: Elements of early medieval England, with my heroine, Emma of Normandy, front and center, of course. But given the story that readers will find inside the book, I felt that the cover must evoke something more than time and place. I’m not going to spell it out for you….I’ll let you decide for yourselves what this cover suggests.

And in case you’re wondering….it meets all my hopes and expectations! I’ve downloaded it to my iPhone so I can collar complete strangers and show it off. (It’s called Marketing.)