Top Ten Purple Covers
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. To celebrate Mardi Gras, this week’s Top Ten Tuesday is all about purple, yellow and green books covers. I’ve noticed in the past that I don’t read many books with green covers and I become…
Shades of Red & Grey
Inspired by Kara-Karina‘s cover feature in which she hunts out covers with redheads, I’m rounding up all those covers that match my blog’s colour scheme. First up is (nearly) everything on my Goodreads shelves, many I have read already but others are long forgotten. Beware,…
Vintage Books Readers’ Day
Yesterday I was invited along to the Vintage Books Readersβ Day at Portsmouth Book Fest for a whole day of bookish talks. It was a fantastic line-up with lots of interesting publishing chat as well as authors discussing their books and readings. Re-writing Writers: Drawing…
Cover Reveal: The Pirate’s Wish
I don’t usually do cover reveals but this time I would love to know what you think that monkey bat thing is on the cover?! The Assassin’s Curse has one of my favourite covers of this year and I like that the style is carried…
Covers Continued: Textures
Still paying attention after parts one and two? This week we’re looking how you can add textures to your images to create that grunge look you see on a lot of print covers. These posts are designed as quick tips for self-published authors, if you…
Covers Continued: Typography
Last week I shared a few tips on how to make your cover look less self-published which proved rather popular. This week I’m going to focus on using typography as the basis of your design. There are a few reasons that you might not want…
How to Make Your Cover Look Less Self-Published
If you’re a self-published author, you probably know that there are people that are avoiding self-published books. Whilst getting reviews seems to be high on the marketing agenda, there’s few who are putting the same kind of effort into what a book looks like. Yet…
Top Ten Covers
It’s been ages since I did a top ten but this week it’s all about covers and you all know how much I love a good cover design. So really, the hard bit is narrowing it down to ten. Sadly a lot of the covers…
Not Just For Stormtroopers: Sci-Fi Group Read #2
The people have spoken. This month I set a poll with a few choices for our optional group read, with a trend towards classics. It looks like a lot of you want to read Philip K. Dick’s science fiction masterpiece or want to revisit it…
Books of the Rainbow
My friend Mike made this for me from my Goodreads shelves. I wrote a pointless application using Goodreads to order books by colour, it didn’t work too well with my 160 books, but yours is ace! You should rearrange your bookshelves in this order.
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