Dear Blog Friends: Well, I think I may have discovered why Smashwords is unhappy with my formatting. Apparently, they don’t like that my chapter headings don’t link back to the table of contents. That’s the closest I can come to figuring it out. I’m resubmitting a new version now with a table of contents that …
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Jun 25
Treemaker, Part 1
Dear Blog Friends, The advantage of still not having that full-time job I’ve been applying for? I’m way ahead of schedule on the book publishing. Here it is, the long (and by long, I mean 10 days) awaited second novel of the Seabingen series. Downloads on Smashwords haven’t been nearly as brisk (probably because this …
Jun 18
Cover Final
So here’s the cover art I decided on for my novel, SEEING THINGS. I had thought about using a teacup for a motif anyway, and the idea came to me that it would be cool if the title of the book were written in tea leaves. (A tea leaf reading impacts the plot of the …
Jun 15
Seeing Things, Part 13: The Big Day
Dear Blog Friends, I’ve been thinking. See, when I came out with the release date of September 1st, I was thinking that I’d have a full time job by now, and that I’d be super busy all the time. But I haven’t been super busy, and since I’ve kind of decided to shelve the paper …
Jun 11
Cover Art Mockup 1
This is the first mockup for the cover of my novel, SEEING THINGS, which will be epublished later this summer. To start with, I used the painted background which I made using acrylic, stamps, and layers of black gesso. After photographing it, I scanned it and then played with the color to get a brighter …