If you have something to say...
Say it on the Huffington Post
If you have something to say...
Say it on the Huffington Post
If you are a female author, you are much more likely to get a package that suggests the book is of a lower perceived quality. We're the high fructose corn syrup of literature, even when our products are the same.
Part of why I decided that I was a good candidate for self-publishing is that I have what is called a platform. Oh, that's one of the buzziest buzzwords around the self-pubbing world, your platform. Turns out that platform of mine is less of a high-dive springboard and more of a children's step-stool.
Do I ever doubt my decision to self-publish? Hell yeah. Just about every other Tuesday I wonder if I made the right choice.
Very often we don't realize how important and essential graphic design is to our everyday lives.
Google Books is more than a bag of words. It's full of anomalies -- digital and analog signs of use. Search through texts in the public domain and you'll find all kinds of distortion, color changes, misplaced autolinks, and, frequently, the hands of an employee.
I started this project because when I am 90 (if I live that long), I want to have a library in my house (if there are still books) where every book jacket is designed by me. That is my long-term plan.
We examine the role of the picture book in introducing children to the visual arts as well as language, and consider important issues such as the appropriateness of certain subjects and styles of illustration for children.
When we began to discuss the book cover for our latest Igniter release, Satan Is Real, we all agreed there's no need to design a cover from scratch when the perfect cover image was already created 50 years ago. To reinterpret this one would be a sin (yeah, I said it).
Tough guys with guns and sexy femme fatales, menace in the shadows and danger in the light, right hooks, and double crosses and deadly embraces: If you can imagine it appearing on a film noir movie poster or an old paperback cover, it's the sort of thing we love.
Following our first round of the best book covers of 2010, we have another 25 outstanding covers from 2010.
It is in the nature of small presses to appear, fill a certain need--often political or cultural in nature--and then vanish.
I recently asked my online friends how they choose their next book to read. Authors, take note of what drives readers to pick up your book. What can you learn from these responses?
