My Kindle Book Cover

   An odd thing happened when I first thought about the kind of cover I'd like for my book. I had taken its title,  A Place in the Choir, from the song, 'All God's Creatures Have a Place in The Choir' which I'd heard performed by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.

   I imagined a telephone wire and birds sitting on this. But one bird was hovering -- looking for a place. But for the paperback copy a more Irish Countryside cover seemed appropriate. This picture encapsulated Ellie's carefree life until she made her decision to enter the convent.

   I had to find a new cover for the ebook. With the help of my friends *Carol and Susan we found the perfect answer -- my original birds on a wire -- a musical chord of sorts. In the picture a bird is hovering just as I saw it in my mind. Like this bird Ellie wants to belong.

Meaning for the word Choir:

Within the text of the novel Ellie asks questions about Choir Nuns and their one time superiority in the convent. There were Lay Sisters many years ago who took on the responsibility for household management within the cloister while those professionally trained worked in schools and hospitals. The choir also forms part of a church building or one can belong to a choir of persons who sing together.

A link to the ebook cover happens when Ellie tells us that:

         Winter became spring. Little buds were appearing on the bushes and the birds
         were busily building nests. Mammy was watching for the first swallows which
         came to nest in the eaves of the house and the barn. They wouldn't arrive for many
         weeks but she didn't want to miss them.

Swallows come here to Crete in the Summer. They have gone now and I wonder if some of them are
on their way to Ellie's childhood home in Monabeg.


*Carol's company is called VA Online.
  She can be reached at www.vaonline.co.uk