Publishing Newsbranding / cover-art / fan-fiction / genre critique64 Comments
Fanfiction – Deb sent me a link to this video. It’s a rather fun look at fan fiction including a historical aspect. Did you know that someone published a sequel to Don Quixote? Unauthorized?Know Your Meme Hold the front page: cover art is going out of fashion – James Bridle ... more >
Covers / Letters of Opinioncover-art70 Comments
The book cover as a marketing tool interests me. Whenever there is a good blog post or a talk, I stop and pay attention. But most of the available opinion, advice, and debate I’ve come across are centered around physical publishing, when a cover is meant to fetch you from ... more >
Letters of Opinioncover-art65 Comments
Lauren Conrad, infamously of The Hills, had a Youtube video of her demonstrating how to hollow out books to make a small storage item. Home stores sell these fake hallowed out books by the crateful. Yet, there was a huge number of negative comments for Conrad’s video protesting the destruction ... more >
Covers / Publishing NewsComics / cover-art / digital publishing / Intellectual Property Issues / self-published / Young-Adult26 Comments
30 Tremendous Examples of Tilt-Shift Photography – “Tilt-Shift photography is an amazing part of talent in which photographer utilizes his skills and technique of photography that develops tilt-shift lenses to beat the boundaries of strength of ground and outlook that normal lenses present” Bloggs 74 Let’s start the day out with ... more >
Publishing NewsAgency pricing / cover-art / lawsuits27 Comments
Jim C. Hines – Posing Like a Man – Jim Hines recreates a series of mantitty covers and comes to some interesting conclusions about the objectification of men on covers (it’s almost always positive). Karen Knows Best – “It hasn’t passed my attention that within romance, enhanced breasts are ... more >
Book Deals / Publishing NewsAuthor-deaths / cover-art / Deals / Penny Jordan19 Comments
News Penny Jordan has passed away at the age of 65. She had been very ill with cancer. Jordan published over 188 books beginning with her first one in 1981, discovered from the slush pile at Mills & Boon. I’ve enjoyed many a Penny Jordan book. I wish her family ... more >