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Tag Archives: cover design
Cover Reveal
As promised, here is the cover to my new novel, Shooting at Strangers… My aim was to make it distinctive and eye-catching – hence the high-contrast of dark text and images against a stark, white background. I also wanted to … Continue reading
Novel number 2 at last, and how not to Design a Cover
Self-publishing a novel is a complex, time consuming and potentially expensive process. Paying for a designer to create a book cover for you is one expense you can avoid; if you have some basic design skills, and the confidence to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aboriginal, blurb, cover design, dot painting, ISBN, novel, self-publishing
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Idiots Guide to Self-Publishing… Part Two
I said there was a great deal of work involved in self-publishing. There are an enormous number of companies offering self-publishing services, from straight forward book printers, to those that will do pretty much everything (except write the book for you). Continue reading
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Tagged author, book distribution, bookshop, British Library, cover design, e-book, editing, ISBN, novel, self-publishing, typesetting
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