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I’m taking a Photoshop class at NYU. Since I taught myself Photoshop, there’s a lot of tools I don’t use because I don’t know what they do. I also wanted to learn why certain tools cause a certain effect. Photoshop has a keyboard shortcut for almost every function. I’ve always wanted to learn them. Something…
Book Marketing and Branding Book Promotion: Do This, Not That — Interview with Pamela Beason Philando Castile and the power of Facebook Live 26 Ways to Use Video for Your Social Media Marketing 3 Tips to Improve the Search Ranking for Your Blog Posts Fantasy/Horror/Sci-Fi Monstress Is a Dark Fantasy About the Struggle to Find…
Chris Mentzer asked “Where can I find a mapmaker program to make designing Fantasy worlds easier?” … I use Photoshop but that program is not easy to understand, which can be a bit frustrating. Let’s look at other map making software. Most of these aren’t free. This list is by no means exhaustive. I haven’t had the…
Why are people, including me of course, making the switch from paper to ebooks without much thought? I said before, I’m more interested in the content not the wrappers. It’s still true but, working with old books has me thinking even deeper. The books, physically, today aren’t anything spectacular. They aren’t collectibles. Some have nice…
With The Lost Sciell’s, Book 3 of The Merging Worlds series, release date this summer, I’ve been designing images. Those who subscribe to my newsletter got a first look at some cover designs. I’m in the process of updating the maps. Let’s take a look at how they’ve evolved over this series. I won’t be changing…
A dark fantasy world where residents are dying from hunger. They’re desperate to devour the energy in Darkness. They’ll even destroy their own world to do it. … No animals greeted Hayan as he strolled. Branches didn’t bend to welcome him. Everything was still as if his forest died standing up. Leaves glowed purple but…