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In the Shade of the Mulberry Tree

In the Shade of the Mulberry Tree

Welcome to my home website and blog!

As those of you who have followed my blog over the years will know, I have written a book In the Shade of the Mulberry Tree. It is a memoir of our time in Zambia – the time when my children were toddlers and the last thing I wanted to do was leave the comfort of my life in the London to venture into tropical, sub-Saharan Africa.

The book is due to be published before Easter, but here is a sneak preview of the cover.

I am so excited by it! It finally makes the whole thing real. I love the way that the cover shows the tree growing out of the global map of Africa.

It was designed by Andrew Brown at designforwriters.com and I can thoroughly recommend him and his service. He did make me think, with a list of about thirty questions about the book that were designed to help him. They helped me too – as I focussed on what were the important parts of my story and how to present it to others.

I also enjoyed the experience of analysing others’ covers. It turns out I really don’t like very many! Perhaps I am over critical. For one, the design was okay but the colours? Yellow and purple – yuk! For many they were really fussy, with too much detail for my liking. In fairness (I always try to have a balanced perspective) they were writing different books – the cover does have to reflect the style and genre of the book itself.

But you know what’s best about my book cover?

It carries on round the back!

4 February 2013 by Catharine Withenay Leave a Comment

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