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You want people to enjoy your website. You want them to share it. As authors, it’s often up to us to design our sites. We don’t always have the funds or the connections to have someone else do it. Fortunately, sites like GoDaddy, WordPress and Squarespace do most of the work for you. But, authors…
I always thought you needed to be an illustrator to create those nice fantasy landscapes. A couple of days ago, I was searching YouTube for book cover design videos when I came across artists creating fantasy images by piecing together different stock photos in Photoshop. I was like, “I can do that!” My publisher asked if…
Being a photographer is like being an author. There are a lot of photos out there, I mean a lot. It’s difficult to take unique pictures. Nearly every category in photography is saturated. My photos are on sites like Shutterstock but it’s hard to get them seen above the millions of other images for sale. I’ve…
Since I read mostly books by indie authors, I’m still coming across covers (and websites) that just break my heart. In the post What Makes a Good Book Cover, I talked about cover design. Unless you have the funds to keep hiring a designer or you know someone, you’ll probably need to design more than…
For just a moment, he wanted to be left alone. Drifting across the water with such beautiful scenery should have been relaxing except his phone kept ringing. He had tried once, leaving his phone at home or at least, turning it off. The amount of rage that came down on him from friends and co-workers…
Welcome to the weekly roundup of links for fantasy, sci-fi, horror readers and writers Book Marketing and Branding Instagram For Brands: Designing Posts That Get Attention How to Unlock the Door to Effective Content with Your Creativity Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi 14 science fiction, fantasy, and horror books to read this August How Could We Not Feature an…