Does your book make a good first impression?
Self-published authors often post with pride on social media about their newest book.
I’ll glance at the cover — and wonder how it can ever hope to compete in the marketplace.
The adage about not judging a book by its cover falls flat when the author is the one who controls it.
Even if potential readers … Continue reading
For now, it will have to do.
While I like most of the latest issue of the magazine I produce, one aspect troubles me. The cover photo I’d taken was adequate, but I keep replaying how I could have done better.
Then my decades of photographic experience kick in. The conditions had been difficult, my time limited, the opportunity unexpected. Given the circumstances, I’d … Continue reading
Do you give yourself time to make revisions?
I could have settled for the versions of the magazine articles I’d completed a few weeks ago. I’d already gone over the layouts several times.
Since they were for the next issue, I had set them aside while I completed this one.
But today as I revisited those pages, I kept seeing aspects I could … Continue reading