The very creative Nelly Murariu @PixBeeDesign designed the cover of What Leora Never Knew, as well as the other Leora books. She also designed the interior and formatted the ebook.
Nelly worked with the same three posed photographs of Dale, Danny, and Junior Wilson that are on the cover of Leora’s Letters.
John Busbee actually came up with the title. I’d been trying to lead with “Leora.” Some of you helped me choose the subtitle.
“We must never forget these three brothers.” Marcus Brotherton, New York Times bestselling author – this is in the black ribbon between the Wilson brothers and the red poppies. What a generous encouragement by a well-known author.
The red poppies. Chapter 1 is called “Red Crepe Paper Poppies,” especially since Grandma Leora was a member of the Legion Auxiliary in Guthrie Center. Every year she offered a red crepe paper poppy for a donation which went to a disabled veterans charity. She made sure we each had one when we accompanied her to Violet Hill Cemetery to place flowers on the graves of her three sons and Grandpa Clabe, who died in 1946.
Dr. John McCrae’s poignant 1915 poem In Flanders Fields is included in Chapter 37. It begins “In Flanders fields the poppies blow/ Between the crosses, row on row.
Robin Grunder shepherded this book through KDP publication with her own company, Legacy Press Books. She also edited this one.
I’m grateful to those who helped make elements of the handsome cover come together for What Leora Never Knew.
