Cover Design

Since we have shared with you the making of the back cover, we thought you might like to hear a little bit about the front. We had conceived of the name, When Sex Isn't Good (and we'll tell you that story another day) but we wanted a cover that would express our feelings. So we turned to Jeremy Mack of Gezamack Designs for something really special. Here's Jeremy himself on his wedding day (did we mention he is also Sue's son-in-law?)

Very early in our writing process, we realized that we needed to be thoughtful and deliberate regarding every detail of our book. Therefore, it was particularly important to us that every aspect of our cover metaphorically express a message of hope to our readers.

Historically, the rose has always been a symbol of beauty and of women. However, the rose on our cover has petals that are slightly folded, wrinkled, and discolored, with wilted edges.... still beautiful in its own way, but not as exquisite as a rose should be. Like the women in our stories, the rose still has its essence, we recognize it as a rose, but its petals are slowly dying one by one, atrophying as it were, losing its natural color and vitality and smoothness, much like a woman's genitalia. Our book is a collection of stories about women who have experienced, for whatever reason, what the rose is experiencing, but have found, or are on their way to finding, a renewal of their sexual health. And with that, both the women and the rose will be reborn to their essential and natural beauty. The multicolored background of our cover moves from shades of beige to red depicting how so many of the women in our stories felt before they received sexual health care... moving from the blandness of beige to the radiance of red.

We appreciate the way Jeremy took our thoughts and comments and made us a spectacular cover. BTW, Jeremy is now art director for Wolfgang's Vault.