This novel is a gift, written by a father for his daughter.
Custom
photography and graphics depict the mining and letter writing themes while the colors pink and blue compliment the underlying story of a father and daughter relationship.
Digital image processing for commercial printing of this book cover in hard back and soft back fromats included altering the authors family photo of three people seated on a boat. In the photo (above) one person between father and daughter has been removed. The black and white photo was converted to
sepia tone to better align with the time period of the story. A mustache was added to the man (the authors grandfather) to give him characteristics resembling himself.