Free Vella Covers (writing contest giveaway)
I’m excited about Amazon’s new platform for serialized fiction Vella (if you haven’t heard of it yet, here’s a post where I…
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Book Cover Makeover Ideas
An author asked for some feedback on a cover and introduced me to http://covercritics.com, where some awesome designers are helping authors by giving…
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Bestselling Book Cover Design Secrets
I’ve spoken about book cover design at half a dozen writing conferences around the world; but I’ve also attended lectures from established…
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Prices are going up this month!
I just wrote a pretty long post about book cover design on my blog and figured some things out. One of which is…
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Free covers for Willamette writers
This is an old post! The makeovers were fun but the opportunity is over. I’m presenting on book covers again at…
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A mistake I’ve been making in all my book cover designs
I was browsing a bookstore today (a recreational hobby + business training) and noticed, not for the first time, that almost all…
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How to be productive during a typhoon and on other days you don’t feel like doing anything.
Dear Authors – given my decade of living overseas and moving around pretty regularly, I didn’t think relocating to Tainan (Taiwan), a…
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Why self-publishing authors are their own worst enemy
I just redid my website design. Pretty slick huh? I also rewrote a lot of my “sales copy.” I’m realizing that my…
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What should I put on my book cover design? Characters, scenes, etc?
For the past year I’ve been super busy working on book covers. During that time I’ve struggled, often, with competing visions for…
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Seeking Book Designers, InDesign Layout Experts and Ebook Conversion Fiends for Collaboration!
I’m trying to make a database of people I can recommend or work with when my workload exceeds my abilities. Especially for…
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