My Cover Designers 2 – Icy Sedgwick

As luck would have it, when one door closed, another one opened, in the form of the incredibly talented Icy – a lovely lady from the 10K Angels group. Unfortunately, I was extremely prolific during the Icy years, and rarely gave her enough notice, however she always came through with something fabulous.

The first cover was a prequel to the Hengist series, which I’d always envisioned writing at some point, and she created this truly unique cover using a photo I took of a yule log and matching with the concept of the parchment background and single object foreground. Senna’s story captured people’s imagination, and several readers wanted to know more of what happened before the start, so Nature’s Tribe ended up being 4-books instead of the three I’d imagined.
Ultimately, Hengist expanded into a 13-book saga, with a third series. This culminated in the very 1st book I wrote featuring Archer and Rory as adults. Icy pulled out all the stops, designing some breath-taking covers for the Colour of Light series, undoubtedly my favourite ones ever.

Interspersed with these two were the YA books I wrote many years before Hengist, and the Bryant Rockwell covers are cleverly done with lots of symbolism in the colour and background to the roses.

Next I collected together a bunch of my very first short stories, weaving a narrative around them featuring and extremely sassy 30-something Lexie. These were way more adult – my version of 50 Shades of Gray, so I published them under my pseudonym, Ro Green. Also as Ro, I pubbed 3 juke-box Musical books, based on stories suggested by some of my favourite bands, Journey and City Boy.

The multi-talented Icy has many more strings to her bow (including a fabulous podcast), and I thoroughly recommend you check out her books here.