by Joel Friedlander | Sep 20, 2013 | Writing
Well, I’m off driving down to central California today for the Central Coast Writer’s Conference, taking place in San Luis Obispo, on the coast roughly midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. I used to drive this coast often, and it still has the...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 18, 2013 | Cover Design
by Joe Conlan Readers will have noticed that we often have entries in the monthly ebook cover design awards posts from the auction site 99designs.com. Some of these designs are outstanding, and I’ve wanted to bring you information on how their method of getting...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 11, 2013 | Cover Design
Welcome to this edition of the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during January, 2013. Here’s what we received: 78 covers in the Fiction category 27 covers in the Nonfiction category Award Winners and Listing I’ve added comments...
by Joel Friedlander | Jun 27, 2012 | Author Brand, Marketing, Self-Publishing
by Matthew Turner (@Turndog_Million) Matthew, who is a frequent commenter here, is very interested in the ways authors use branding to enhance their marketing strategy. Here he looks at your book cover as an element of that branding. You all know how important a book...
by Joel Friedlander | Jan 13, 2012 | Cover Design, E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
One of the regular tasks of a book cover designer is preparing cover images for a client’s use in promotions, website design, a whole host of things. Today that was one of the things on my to-do list, and I prepared two JPGs, one for print and one for web use....
