Did I say I’m sprucing up my backlist? I feel sure you must have noticed that by now 🙂 This week I’ve been improving the books’ description pages on Amazon and flexing what I’ve learned about writing better blurbs. But one of the other things I’ve learned since really getting into the self-publishing mindset is…
I’ve been reading a lot of indie books recently, and noticed that most of them had covers only their authors could have loved. This prompted me to see if I could find a way of making some cheap cover art for smashwords – so cheap it was available to anyone, no matter their budget. And…
I don’t know why, but I appear to be primarily inspired by pictures (and TV/movies) rather than by other people’s books. This is probably a good thing! At any rate, I thought I’d share a few of the images that have inspired me over the years. This one (along with the hazy memories of a…
Maybe it’s a case of ‘separated by a common language’ again, but how hard can it be to find a single decent picture of an Oxbridge young man in summer flannels (preferably lounging against a wall)? I’m looking for something like this: And I’ve tried Brideshead Revisited (as a sort of theme), Maurice (theme), EM…
I decided to put my icon making experience to work and see how I was at producing book covers. I’m hoping to have ‘The Boys of Summer’ finished by Christmas, so I thought there would be no harm done if I made a mockup of a cover for it which I could have at hand,…