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Smith’s Monthly Magazine Covers
Doing Paperback Layout for #48 Yesterday and Tonight… That is the April Issue. So I had to do a cover for #49, the May issue, because, you know, coming-next-month kind of thing. #49 is the May issue and I still haven’t figured out what I am doing for #50. But got some fun ideas. #49 issue will have the full novel Bottom Pair: A Cold Poker Gang Novel. It will go out to the Kickstarter backers in April and then in early May will appear in Smith’s Monthly. So had to do the cover. So figured tonight, since it is Saturday night, I would take a moment to show you…
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Covers for Issue #48 of Smith’s Monthly
Short Story Covers… This for Smith’s Monthly #48 which is the April Issue. I did these five covers tonight, took me about an hour and a half total, again the longest time was looking for the art. Just as with every month, the short story covers are all different in the issue. That’s a good thing. There is an original Marble Grant story, which has a different look to the cover using Pop Art. The other four all used the template. I have original stories from Bryant Street, Sky Tate, Cold Poker Gang and a reprint of a Pahket Jones story from the cat anthologies. So five very, very different…
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Some Short Story Covers
Just Having Fun Tonight… Yes, I will do a wrap-up of the 15 days of tracking time, but next week. I want to do something else now. So since I am laying out the paper edition of Smith’s Monthly #47 that will be out in a week or so, I had to do the covers for the five original short stories in the volume. And since I was still in a keeping track of time mode from the challenge, I can tell you that including finding the art, these five covers took exactly 1 hour and 45 minutes with InDesign. And cost me exactly $5.00 in real cost. Four were…
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Started On #45
Actually Started Interior Layout on Smith’s Monthly #45… Ran into a few problems that I will solve tomorrow with a little help. But minor. The real issue is going to be getting all the ads and such I do throughout the book for my own books, rebuilding a lot of them, making sure the art is linked, and so on. That will take a few days and it will get easier as I go along with every issue I am sure. So tonight I decided to fire up my rusty short story paperback cover skills. Been most of a pandemic since I had done too many of them, if any.…
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Very Impressed…
The Covers From the Covers 101 Workshop… The writers who managed to get through to the last assignment of the covers workshop produced some stunning book covers. The Covers 101 Workshop is a step-by-step process workshop in design and layout of covers. I just got done earlier tonight going through Assignment #5 in the Covers 101 workshop (first time it was offered) and basically all were professional covers that would sell books. I showed Kris a few and she just said, “Wow!” A couple writers, as expected, thought they could write sales copy for the back cover without training and failed, horribly, but this wasn’t a sales copy workshop, it…
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Sometimes Just Fun
Keeping the Blog Streak Alive… Something like day 2,626 of blogs without a miss. So tonight, since I have been reading stories and such, I felt too tired to write much or post another chapter in the Trademark book, so figured I would just show you one of the covers from my Make 100 Paperbacks. Working my way right through them and having fun. So here is a new short story cover from issue three of Smith’s Monthly. Cover is front, back, and spine. I used the same art that was in the issue originally for the story. 5 x 8 inch trim. This one is the first story of…