To be or not to be

December 12, 2008 | 11 Comments

Offended.
I think I’m supposed to be. I’m told I should be. My neck twitches just slightly when I know I ought to be. But I don’t think I am. Am I?
Bodice ripper.
I just can’t muster up the outrage necessary to protest the term. I mean, there are seriously a bunch [...]

Dec

9

Judge. Book. Cover.

December 9, 2008 | 30 Comments

Th., give thanks and be glad! You are no longer alone in your opinion on my cover.
LDS Fiction has very kindly listed my book amongst the LDS fiction released in the last little while. You have to request this, along with sending its information and the cover (because the poor blog [...]

Dec

4

Book Review: The Truth About Roxy

December 4, 2008 | 5 Comments

The Truth About Roxy
by Jenny Gilliam
published by The Wild Rose Press
I like the longer single-title contemporary romance (no suspense, thanks, and the category lengths are just way too short) and lately, the ones I really like have been coming out of the smaller e-presses. They’re not as well edited as I’d like, but they’re [...]

Nov

15

The book as art

November 15, 2008 | 15 Comments

I said something in my little rant the other day that’s stuck with me: The book is the art.
To me, Harry Potter’s fabulous because it’s a whole experience. The cover art and the story work together. It’s got color, movement, focus, texture. You’re sitting there in your reading chair on a [...]

Nov

13

Book design: ur doin it rong

November 13, 2008 | 21 Comments

Thank Mike Cane for this rant.
I’ve read a few self-pubbed books lately. None of them were egregiously horrible in the design department and a couple of them were even fairly decent. And frankly, after I converted them to digital and put them on my ebook reader, it wasn’t an issue at all. But [...]