You can go with fncychap if you want. It uses commands (like \rm) which are deprecated for right about 20 years now. To be honest, i think it is pretty ugly. Other people are making fun of it as well (but in conjunction with Comic Sans).
I changed your code a bit, please have a close look.
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% arara: lualatexmk
\documentclass[10pt,english,british,twoside,openany]{scrbook}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[automark,headsepline,footsepline=.25pt]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\addtokomafont{pageheadfoot}{\slshape}
\addtokomafont{pagehead}{\tiny}
\addtokomafont{pagefoot}{\small}
\addtokomafont{disposition}{\rmfamily}%JB: rm for chapter headings
%\ohead{\MakeUppercase{\leftmark}}%JB: do you REALLY want this
%uppercased?
\ohead{\leftmark}
\ihead{Ben Francis}
\ofoot{\mytitle}
\cfoot{\pagemark}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
%\usepackage[Lenny]{fncychap}%really ugly
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\renewcommand\thepart{\Alph{part}}
%\newcommand{\apostrophe}{\XeTeXglyph\XeTeXcharglyph"0027\relax}
%JB: Since you are using XeTeX, take advantage of fontspec
%JB: LuaTeX and microtype work better together, so LuaLaTeX
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}%JB: Just as an example
%\KOMAoptions{open=any}
%\setlength{\headheight}{15.2pt}
%\widowpenalty=300
%\clubpenalty=300
\renewcommand*{\partpagestyle}{empty}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{paperwidth=5.06in,
paperheight=7.81in,
verbose,
tmargin=0.5in,
bmargin=1in,
inner=0.75in,
outer=0.5in,
headheight=0.1in,
headsep=0.15in,
footskip=0.45in,
twoside}
%\usepackage{showframe}
\iffalse
We can better see how the text block is laid out on the page with
package showframe. Be aware, that your marginpar column is
running out of the page.
\fi
\newcommand{\mytitle}{Tears in the Rain}
%JB: Saving it and later using it again.
\begin{document}
\title{\mytitle}
\frontmatter
\date{}
\maketitle
\begin{titlepage}
\begin{flushright}
{\huge \mytitle}%JB: Those are switches active
%in the current group
\vspace{0.5in}
\huge{\raisebox{\depth}{\scalebox{1}[-1]{\mytitle}}} \par\bigskip
\par\end{flushright}{\huge \par}
\end{titlepage}
\begin{titlepage}
\noindent\includegraphics[width=4in,height=2in]{bensig}
\vspace*{0.5in}
\begin{flushright}
{\Huge{}Tears in the Rain}
\par\end{flushright}{\Huge \par}
\end{titlepage}
\begin{titlepage}
\begin{center}
\emph{Copyright}
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\textcopyright{ 2014 Ben Francis All rights reserved.}
\end{center}
\vspace*{0.5in}
\begin{center}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\paperwidth}
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored
in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means;
mechanical, electrical, photocopying, scanning, recording or otherwise,
without prior written consent from the publishers. Every effort has
been made to contact all copyright holders. The author and publisher
will gladly rectify any omissions.
\end{minipage}
\end{center}
\vspace*{0.5in}
\begin{center}
ISBN:
\end{center}
\vspace*{0.2in}
\begin{center}
A CIP Record for this book is available from the British
Library.
\end{center}
\vspace*{0.1in}
\begin{center}
Typeset in \LaTeXe
\end{center}
\end{titlepage}
\iffalse
You have been doing much by hand. That isn't the LaTeX way, but
ok for title pages. But please don't hand craft in the main part.
\fi
\tableofcontents
\addchap{Preface}
%JB addchap does magic for you
\emph{Tears in the Rain}, %JB: emphasize (use semantic markup)
set in the emerging hippie Age of Aquarius in the early nineteen
sixties... \marginpar{The times of Love, Peace and Music}
\blindtext[3]
\mainmatter
%\noindent%JB: Why?
\part{How it all began}
\blinddocument
\part{How it all ended}
\blinddocument
\blinddocument
\end{document}
