Magical Book Cover

Crow Heart

Helen Slavin

Helen Slavin was born in Heywood in Lancashire in 1966. She was raised by eccentric parents on a diet of Laurel and Hardy, William Shakespeare and the Blackpool Illuminations. Educated at her local comp her favourite subjects at school were English and Going Home. After The University of Warwick she worked in many jobs including, plant and access hire, a local government Education department typing pool, and a vasectomy clinic. A job as a television scriptwriter gave her the opportunity to spend all day drinking tea, living in a made-up fantasy world and getting paid for it (sometimes). Helen has been a professional writer for fifteen years. Her first novel The Extra Large Medium was chosen as the winner in the Long Barn Books competition run by Susan Hill. A paragliding Welsh husband and two children distract her and give her ample opportunity to spend all day drinking tea, nagging about homework and washing pants for England. In the wee small hours she still keeps a bijou flat in that fantasy world of writing. When not working with animals and striving for world peace, Helen enjoys the music of Elbow and baking bread. Her favourite colour is purple and if she had to be stranded on a desert island with someone it would be Ray Mears (alright, George Clooney is very good looking but can he make fire with a stick? No. See?). She now lives, with her family, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, where, when she’s not writing, she’s asleep. Or in Tescos.

The fourth in the Witch Ways series, Crow Heart finds the three Way sisters facing an old foe in Havoc Wood.

Young Adults, readers of YA, New Adults, Women 15+, anyone interested in Wicca, witches, magic

*We have permission from our designer for another designer to carry on his series look. We are looking for that style to be replicated as closely as possibly so that there doesn't appear to be a break in our covers throughout the series.* *Cover Quote:* 'A highly original talent' Beryl Bainbridge* *Series Title:* The Witch Ways *Font:* Didot (Bold + Regular) *Cover Size:* 1656 x 2560 *These covers always have a girl on the cover, surrounded by a woodsy/nature scene. They are whimsical and dreamy.* *Imagery* - main character has red hair - so perhaps the central figure can have red hair or red tones should be the overarching colour scheme - there are a lot of references to lightening and storms throughout - a weed/climbing/binding plant - flying crows and jackdaws feature as well *Quotes* _At its epicentre was Aurora Foundling, she of the red hair and the haughty demeanour. She was sitting at the table closest to the hearth. Her hair was filled with static, fizzing and curling away from her_ _At home in her cottage, she sat by the fire and felt where the Red Wrangle ate the old magic, denied her the power, the pleasure . . . The Red Wrangle burned into her wrist over and over until the scar was vivid and crimson._ _Skies roiled with jackdaws, and she was caught up in their wingbeats. It was exhausting hanging in the air, but she knew it was worse to fall, for, behind the feathers and beaks, she glimpsed, flashing here, now there, the spider web wires of the bridge at Knightstone sliced at by white knives of lightning._ _She would not forget Hettie Way’s face that night, illumined by lightning, finally aware of Nuala’s power._ _There was a flash of light, the sensation again of standing beneath a storm and not quite being able to see the lightning_ _At once, it was a vivid riot of jackdaws, clattering, battering wings. Anna was overwhelmed, unable to breathe for feathers, and then her Strength took over to brush the birds into the sky._ _A crow cawed and the jackdaws rushed Anna’s mind once more, feathers, beaks, claws._

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