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My brain is scattered, thanks to lack of sleep. Idiot animals have decided it's a good thing to get me up between 0400 and 0500 every morning. While that gives me a jump on the day, after a week or so of it, the brain decides it doesn't have to function even if the body... Continue Reading →
This post is going to be like a box of mixed sweets. Nothing to do with one another, but hopefully still of interest to the readers. Firstly, I am still slowly experimenting with dictation. I have been able to come up with a rig that works well for me in the car, now, I just... Continue Reading →
When I began reading Dave's post yesterday, I smiled and nodded. I'm up to my eyeballs in the final edits for Nocturnal Revelations. My brain is focused on not only the edits but what needs to be done to promote the book between now and release date. So figuring out what to write for MGC... Continue Reading →
The Internet is a glorious thing. Recently I was mourning the loss of a treasured paperback, an edition of Northanger Abbey dating from the heyday of the '70's Gothic romance. But all I really wanted was the cover -- the text was, after all, exactly the same as it is in my three other editions of the... Continue Reading →
I feel like I harp on this topic. Covers, cover art, cover design... if it’s ever too much, tell me. Here’s the thing, though. It’s not just that I’m an artist and designer and I enjoy the process of book creation. It’s that even though people will say they don’t care about a book cover,... Continue Reading →
This morning, between phone calls and the latest in a line of repairmen, I sat down to blog.The moment I did, the bane of so many writers' existence hit -- no, not writer's block but the cat. Actually, in my case, the cats. Both decided they wanted to be in my lap. It didn't matter... Continue Reading →
I've written about this many times here at Mad Genius Club, but it's a topic that gets asked about over and over. And it's an important topic. The book cover is the first thing your readers see, and no matter how often they might insist that they don't judge a book by it's cover, they... Continue Reading →
I promised a cover post, and this is one. I'm not going to re-cover old ground (much) and talk about how the cover is not a representation of some exact scene from the book. The cover is meant to convey a sense of the book, to grab the reader's attention, to draw them in and... Continue Reading →
Hello Everyone! I feel like we've done this before... If you, too, are feeling some deja-vu, no worries, I'm going to include a bunch of links here, so folks can catch up, and when we're all looking at the same vu, you can scroll past them. If you are an Indie, and even if you're... Continue Reading →
When I went to bed last night, I knew exactly (kind of, sort of) what I was going to write about this morning. It was a toss-up between a post on some comments about the cover of Black Tide Rising, an anthology based on John Ringo's series of books, and a response to an article... Continue Reading →
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