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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…
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More Cover Information
Someone Asked… How long does it take me to do these covers? On the short story paperbacks, I use the same art I used when I first did the story, but the template is brand new and the art is sometimes interesting trying to make it fit. All the novels that represent the novel in Smith’s Monthly have been redone over the years, so I am using that new art for them. But I am going ahead at decent speed, so I decided to time how long it took me to do these new covers. It took exactly 15 minutes to put in the new art on Smith’s Monthly #2,…
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More Cover Fun
Starting to Really Have Fun… As I expected I would once I got past the panic of learning a new version of InDesign. People told me it was very similar to the old one, but problem was it had been five years since I had done much on the old one, and my old memory just isn’t that good. But when I was up in Oregon a couple weeks ago, Josh showed me how to find help inside Adobe products and that has been a lifesaver a few times. And on top of that, I am feeling in control of the mass of my short fiction for the first time…
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Playing With Covers
For Make 100 Paperbacks And learning the new Indesign. Finally getting past the frustration stage of learning and into the “this is cool” stage. Thought I would show you one of the covers. I am starting from the very first story in Smith’s Monthly #1 (and yes, I will be redoing all the Smith’s Monthly issues as well in this crazy clean-up.) And I will be doing a lot of new and unpublished stories as well. On my wonderful spread sheet, I discovered that only four of the 37 stories in the first nine issues of Smith’s Monthly have been put out stand-alone and of those, only one was already…
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Nifty Resource for Covers
14 Tools for Making Book Covers… Nate at the Digital Reader just did a post on 14 sites for helping with making covers. Some of them make the 3d covers. I know some of you here are still paying far too much to have covers made. Time to dig in to a learning curve and start doing your own. In case anyone is interested, I do covers in InDesign with some help from Photoshop. If you go to Lynda.com you can get tutorials on how to learn either of those programs. But the article has some easier methods than what we use here. Worth a look, especially if you want…