I’m very pleased to announce that John Evans’ book The Eternal Quest for Immortality is published and available on Amazon.com and Amazon UK. This project reminded me how much I enjoy designing books. There was an exciting learning curve, as I had never used Lightning Source before. Their system looked somewhat daunting at first until [...] Read more »
Creative Frenzy
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 »
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