The cover

The pic is one of Smailholm Pele Tower. It has absolutely nothing to do with the story of Brendan Earle,I just found it on the Internet, liked it and thought it would look good. That does partly have to do with it having a lot of sky in it where I could put the title, but isn't all.

The landscape that the story is set in is described as looking like Northumberland and pele towers are mentioned once early on. There isn't one that looks like this, but I did have the idea that it would be a good scene-setting device to help the reader picture the landscape. The scene isn't as clear-skyed as I'd have liked, being as The Land is first described as having beautiful summer weather,  but it being a bit darker and colder doesn't hurt for the tone of the story, which quickly turns more menacing.

A bit of advertising

For a change I'm advertising Mike Green, rather than me. This:
http://www.thephotologue.org/Photography/A-Day-at-the-Races/17450824_FNqvXj#!i=1494660313&k=HWqRpFt
should be a link to his photologue, a collection of his work for sale. It includes the pic that I know as The Starting Line, but which is here described as A Day at the Races VII Sweihan . It doesn't unfortunately include Dunes and Mist, which I love and which is featured in Brendan Earle and has a starring part.
This:
http://www.mgreenphotography.blogspot.com/
will take you to his blog, whre you can see a host of other good quality work.
If Brendan Earle ever makes it into the world of old-fashioned publishing with an agent and books in Waterstones', then I'll try very hard to get Dunes and Mist as a cover pic. It won't make any sense to most readers why that should be on the front - until they get to that part of the book - but it is a great pic and does make sense within the story. It actually helps Brendan understand something about how his world is structured. Yes, that does mean that it helped me explain something that was going to be both hard and boring to get over without it.