My novel, Farewell, My Denmark, is about Mormon immigrants
in 1863. The main character, Catherine Erichsen, loves the gospel and planned
to immigrate with her family, until her longtime beau proposed.
The book opens just as she’s about to discover the answer to
her silent question: Does Isaac love her, and respect her enough to read her
Book of Mormon? If you guessed by the title, Catherine ends up immigrating with
her family and 700 other Scandinavian Saints.
So, what should the cover look like? Since a good portion of
the book is aboard the John J. Boyd,
the ship that carried the actual immigrants, there should definitely be a ship.
But, most of the novels nowadays also have a person on the
front, and that’s where my problem comes in. Most models don’t wear
peasant/immigrant clothes of the 1860 variety, or any variety. And, since the
story is about a Danish immigrant, it seems silly to put a wealthy English
woman on the cover.
And so my story goes ...
Hello world! Are there any stock photos of Danish immigrants
out there???
Still looking.
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