It’s getting harder and harder to find houses that fit the front covers for my stories. The latest, Cooper Alley Ghost, needed to be old, craggy, two storey and squishy. Why? Because it’s in an alley, not a street or […]
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Smoking Bullets
Ha, now there’s a vision. Once I’d finished with the front cover of Adaptation, I had a look at some of my other titles. Yep, you guessed it, I wasn’t happy with them. I mean, the Paranormology series ain’t so […]
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Judging a Book by its Cover
When I first started out writing, I was busy with the whole ‘writing’ part of the deal, you know, putting words together to make sentences and all that jazz. Then, when it got time to get real, I slammed into […]
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Portsmouth Avenue – Third Draft complete
You know when your eyes are burning and your fingers and cramped and up come up for a gulp of air and realise, ‘Heck, almost there!’ That’s me. The fifth episode of Paranormology is only a hop, skip and a […]
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Portsmouth Avenue Cover – The Saga Continues
I did it. As I rode home, I went over and over the possible situations: A hostile occupant. A disinterested one. Getting told to sod off. Getting an over-eager interest. How would it turn out? How would it all end? […]
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KDP – The Cover Pt II
Last post I uploaded the front cover to the KDP creator. I had blundered in that the DPI or dots per inch setting was at a default of 72, rather than the required 300. Changing the DPI to 300, re-exporting […]
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KDP – The Cover
In the previous post, I spoke about how to get the cover to play ball. By downloading the template you will save yourself a lot of trouble, but how does one use it? GIMP I like GIMP. A lot. I […]
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Borobo Reef
I had planned to have finished the first draft of the next book by the 30th of March. To this end, I pulled out all the stops. I was writing day and night, lunch time, after dinner, before going to […]
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Adaptation – Part 6, Cover Art Sneak Peek
I’ve been quiet lately, I know. I’ve been busting my digits, giving my red pen a serious work out. Actually it ran out of ink. After that I ground my laptop’s CPU into the dirt making corrections and alterations and […]
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Lulu – Cover Uploading
Left you hanging on the uploading of the manuscript. My apologies. Had to get foreign character printing fixed on Epson printers. Long story, don’t ask. The Cover This is where your hard work shaping the cover will pay off. You’ve […]
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