Writing I’ve finished the rewrites of Chapters 3 through 5. I feel like I’ve gotten a better sense of who my antagonist is. The mind mapping technique is really helping me out not only for character development, but to get a visual of what should happen by the end of each act. With this technique, [...] Read more »
Book Design Project: The Eternal Quest for Immortality
This week got off to a great start when I received an email from John Evans of Syntagma Media. He had approached me a couple of years ago about designing his book, Cosmosity. That project never got off the ground for reasons you can read about here, but he started writing another book, entitled The [...] Read more »
Ideas Flowing in Unexpected Places
I’ve been working on Chapter 12 for what . . . a month now? It seems like longer. I had finished it two weeks earlier, only to accidentally erase it the moment I saved the next chapter. While the gist of the chapter remained in my mind, the internal monologue I had written was lost. [...] Read more »
Prosperity Sent to the Printer
I was ecstatic when I finished the final editing Sunday night. Last night involved implementing some final design tweaks and uploading everything onto the Lulu site. Everything was going well until I uploaded my cover. The original cover that has graced the sidebar for several months has really grown on me. I was counting on [...] Read more »
An InDesign Script for Book Cover Designers
I was surfing the web yesterday for anything on designing books with InDesign and discovered this script by Dan Rodney, called Make Book Jacket 2.0. It comes with three measurements: picas, inches, and metric. Using the dialog box (see screenshot above), you can preset your book cover’s measurements, plus indicate whether your cover is going [...] Read more »
A New Cover?
My theme discovery sparked an artistic inspiration in me last night, compelling me to create this cover. I don’t like the color of my name, and I’m having some difficulty with the header font fitting right in the spine. I’ll have to wait and see how many pages the finished book has before I decide [...] Read more »
My Manuscript Arrived
My mind and fingers have been itching to start editing that manuscript since I typed “The End” on Sunday. Last night felt like a mild version of nicotine withdrawals. I know of at least two scenes that I need to revamp or get rid of entirely. It seems that I take a perverse pleasure in [...] Read more »
Self-Publishing Through Lulu: Your Book Cover
I read somewhere that a writer shouldn’t be a designer and vice-versa. Either you’re a writer or an artist, they say. Well, I think that’s a load of crap. Look at the books on your shelf. Many of their designs consist of manipulated images and fonts. With some patience and practice, you can create some [...] Read more »
Cover: God’s Last Twilight
This is a redo of last night’s tryout. I thought I wanted a church theme, but that was a small quibble compared to the fight for survival this town winds up going through. Share and Enjoy Read more »
Covers for Prosperity
As you can see, I became a woman obsessed today. The cover above symbolizes the old photo albums that Bud is hiding from Amanda. On the surface, the cover has a somewhat elegant look to it . . . until you look at the woman’s face. Right now, I’m leaning towards this cover because I [...] Read more »
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