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January 21, 2009 4:20 PM
Who Are Those Kids?
Since Mackenzie, Lost and Found debuted in November, I’ve had many people comment about the cover.
“Striking…powerful…hypnotic…completely made of awesome.”
These are just a few of the words that have been used to describe the photo of those two faces gazing out so intently from the cover of my book.
And then inevitably, the question comes: “Who are those kids?” Well, the short answer is…I have no idea. But here’s the scoop on how they got there.
Last spring, my editor asked me to send him any ideas I had for the cover of the book. I suggested a few images…a desert scene, a grouping of broken pottery shards, a shot of the Arab Market in Jerusalem. I even sent along a cover mock-up I’d created from an istock photo. Here is what it looked like:
In the end, a young designer at Dundurn named Courtney Horner found a photo from istock featuring two kids who looked remarkably like my characters and used it for the cover.
Were they models hired for a photo shoot? Or just two ordinary kids captured in a candid moment? I don’t know. Will they ever know that their faces graced the cover of my book? Your guess is as good as mine. But one thing’s for sure….their faces make a much more dramatic cover than the desert picture I suggested.
And these two kids, whoever they are, are captivating readers around the world with their haunting stares.