Sentences with phrase «lot about a book cover»

We've been talking a lot about book covers lately, with steamy romance coverboys, links to the book covers that got away and the reworkings of classics.

Here's a video of the speech I gave on book cover design at Author Marketing Live 2014; I'm not a very polished speaker, but you'll learn a lot about book cover design (and -LSB-...]

And I think Hugh Howey can teach us a lot about book cover design, but not by sharing his design instincts (fun and artistic, creative like his books, but making a statement about the author, rather than conforming to industry design standards based on what actually moves books).

I talk a lot about book cover design, but when you start out with that blank canvas and your eager imagination, you're bound to get lost in the possibilities of what to put on your book cover.

You can probably tell a lot about a book cover designer by the book covers that they like.

We already wrote an awfully lot about book cover fonts for different genres, so I won't waste any screen space here.

Not exact matches

The New York Times took note of it, (later profiling her) and a Village Voice sex columnist wrote in a back - cover blurb for the book: «As a single woman myself, Dawn's given me a lot to think about.»

Tough, author of «Whatever It Takes» about the expensive and immersive Harlem Children's Project, covers a lot of territory but doesn't let his books become too academic.

While this book covers a lot of the basics of what to eat, I want to focus on talking about fats.

I described myself as cool and casual individual, I am highly sophisticated and honest in everything i do, i do care a lot about my appearance and i always like to look good and smell nice, i don't judge a book by the cover and do not consider distance or age as barrier in relationship.

Word searches - 2 word searches with words and pictures Writing pages - a collection of photocopiable sheets with toy themed borders Writing worksheets - a collection of worksheets with toy pictures and lines below for writing My favourite toy - draw and write about your favourite toy Word mat - an A4 word mat with words and pictures to use for writing activities Number line - a number line to 100 on colourful toys Alphabet line - a colourful alphabet line Flash cards - word and picture cards of lots of different toys Design a toy - a worksheet for your toy design Colouring pictures - a collection of colouring sheets Tracing pictures - pencil control sheets - great for younger children Book cover - a book cover to colour to use to keep all the topic work together Bingo - print and make this colourful toy themed bingo game Matching pairs game - match the toys Number dominoes - a toy themed game Label the toys - label some different toys Counting cards - cards with numbers 1 - 10 and the corresponding number of toys Size ordering - order the Russian dolls in size order - in colour and black and white Literacy worksheets - match labels to toys, write initial sounds, write words to describe different toys Play dough mats - a collection of activity mats to use in the play dough area Old toys posters - colourful posters showing some old toys Old and new posters - compare the old and new versions of some different toys Baby and child toys - an activity to sort the toy pictures into ones you had as a baby and ones you have now and a worksheet to accompany the activity Our favourite toys - find out about and draw your parents favourite toy and grandparents favourite toy when they were little Push and pull - look at some different toys and talk about what force is used to make them move Write a story - a decorated worksheet for writing a story about your toys Make some toys - photocopiable sheets for making 15 different simple toys such as split pin puppets, a jigsaw, a marble maze, a die to use with the snakes and ladders board Toy shop role play pack - a full pack of resources to set up your own toy shop in the classroom Includes display materials, games, Literacy and Maths activities, story telling resources plus much Book cover - a book cover to colour to use to keep all the topic work together Bingo - print and make this colourful toy themed bingo game Matching pairs game - match the toys Number dominoes - a toy themed game Label the toys - label some different toys Counting cards - cards with numbers 1 - 10 and the corresponding number of toys Size ordering - order the Russian dolls in size order - in colour and black and white Literacy worksheets - match labels to toys, write initial sounds, write words to describe different toys Play dough mats - a collection of activity mats to use in the play dough area Old toys posters - colourful posters showing some old toys Old and new posters - compare the old and new versions of some different toys Baby and child toys - an activity to sort the toy pictures into ones you had as a baby and ones you have now and a worksheet to accompany the activity Our favourite toys - find out about and draw your parents favourite toy and grandparents favourite toy when they were little Push and pull - look at some different toys and talk about what force is used to make them move Write a story - a decorated worksheet for writing a story about your toys Make some toys - photocopiable sheets for making 15 different simple toys such as split pin puppets, a jigsaw, a marble maze, a die to use with the snakes and ladders board Toy shop role play pack - a full pack of resources to set up your own toy shop in the classroom Includes display materials, games, Literacy and Maths activities, story telling resources plus much book cover to colour to use to keep all the topic work together Bingo - print and make this colourful toy themed bingo game Matching pairs game - match the toys Number dominoes - a toy themed game Label the toys - label some different toys Counting cards - cards with numbers 1 - 10 and the corresponding number of toys Size ordering - order the Russian dolls in size order - in colour and black and white Literacy worksheets - match labels to toys, write initial sounds, write words to describe different toys Play dough mats - a collection of activity mats to use in the play dough area Old toys posters - colourful posters showing some old toys Old and new posters - compare the old and new versions of some different toys Baby and child toys - an activity to sort the toy pictures into ones you had as a baby and ones you have now and a worksheet to accompany the activity Our favourite toys - find out about and draw your parents favourite toy and grandparents favourite toy when they were little Push and pull - look at some different toys and talk about what force is used to make them move Write a story - a decorated worksheet for writing a story about your toys Make some toys - photocopiable sheets for making 15 different simple toys such as split pin puppets, a jigsaw, a marble maze, a die to use with the snakes and ladders board Toy shop role play pack - a full pack of resources to set up your own toy shop in the classroom Includes display materials, games, Literacy and Maths activities, story telling resources plus much more

I just figured out how to animate my book covers and a lot of people have been excited about that (I wrote a tutorial here).

I'm not going to give you a lot of advice about writing dialog, or creating dramatic tension, or any of a dozen aspects of fiction writing that have already been covered in books written by more respected authors than I. For that matter, I'm also not going to give you a lot of rah - rah motivational advice about sticking with it and overcoming your doubts.

There are a lot of mistaken assumptions about how book covers are supposed to look, and that has led to thousands of badly designed indie published books.

Even if you don't land direct sales right away, you're getting lots of people seeing the cover of your book, seeing your name, so that by the time they might see it recommended on Amazon or hear about it from another friend and say «Oh yeah, that makes sense.»

We talk a little about a lot of things: bad drugs, bad drug laws, good drugs, Breaking Bad, what inspires us and, of course, what goes into making a book cover work or fail.

Even if you don't land direct sales as high as you'd like to right away, you're getting lots of people seeing the cover of your book, seeing your name, so that by the time they might see it recommended on Amazon or hear about it from another friend and say «Oh yeah, that makes sense.»

-LSB-...] posted before about how we do judge books by their covers, so I could have answered that question with a flippant «a lot,» included a link to -LSB-...]

And, in the Book Design category of our BLOG, you'll find lots of posts about both cover design and page design.

And the custom book cover company I use (Oberon) told me they are getting a lot more inquiries about the KOBO readers, maybe because it is open of the few with a more open platform.

As one of the producers of book trailers mentioned in the WSJ article and someone who provided a lot of information that didn't make it into the article (in all fairness you just can't cover everything) I had hoped to see more information about the evolution of book video distribution as part of that article.

-LSB-...] What Goes Into A Great Book Cover — Lots of things to consider if you're about to publish your book whether with a traditional publisher or self - publisBook Cover — Lots of things to consider if you're about to publish your book whether with a traditional publisher or self - publisbook whether with a traditional publisher or self - published.

The author bio on the back cover of your book needs to cover a lot of ground in a few words: publishing credits, writing degrees earned, perhaps something fun about yourself.

A lot of traffic Comes to this site looking for answers about book covers.

I've talked before about self - publishing, how it's been a huge boon to my writing career, but also how authors should temper their expectations: realize that writing, editing, designing a cover for, formatting and converting, and marketing a self - published book is a lot of hard work, and is less likely than the lottery to make you rich.

One other friend of mine left he was in the real estate space wrote a book with with a major publishing house and then a few years later stopped he left real estate and went into a really strong personal development business and the publisher went up well you're not promoting this book anymore and they took his book word - for - word and put somebody else's name on the cover of it and just put a new introduction on it no credit to anybody he had worked because he had two co-authors help him with it because he's dyslexic so they essentially were the ones that wrote it and he provided a lot of the content and the publisher gave those other authors no credit took his name off and put somebody else's name on the front and then the publisher was 100 % within their rights to do it so you know there's a lot of things that I challenge people to kind of think about what's important and if you're putting all your expertise into this book you want to make sure that somebody's negotiated a heck out of it giving you a contract that actually makes sense for you and your business.

So while I've covered a lot of book publicity issues in this blog like how to utilize social networks or what an author website should contain, I've never posted about how to publicize a book because one post (or even a series of posts) will never cover that.

And furthermore, most book cover designers are good designers but don't know a lot about designing covers that actually sell a shitload of books.

I think you can learn a lot about individual countries by the book covers they like!

It covers almost all formats for ereaders and nabs a lot of data about each book with ISBN numbers or just the title of the book.

When you email people about your book and include the cover, they don't respond (or you get a lot of rejection)

Feedback on mediocre covers won't lead to a better cover, unless you're getting feedback from really brilliant cover designers, who know a lot about using design to sell books.

And people give them away for nothing, and then people fill their ebooks, going, «Ooh, all these free books,» and actually a lot of the time they buy them because they've got a nice cover, and what it tells you is that that person's better at doing covers than they are about writing books!

Sure, we shouldn't judge a book by its cover but the arcadey sounding title of Mad Catz Interactive's first PS3 flight sim venture says a whole lot about the game at large.

I'm not going to spoil the plot any further than what the back cover of the book gives, but one of the things I really like about The Cole Protocol, and really all the Halo books, is that you get the story from a lot of perspectives.

Gayla Trail: With my last book, Grow Great Grub which was about growing food in general, there was obviously a lot of food to cover, and I could only allot so much space to herbs and edible flowers, and it just didn't feel like enough.

What I didn't like about the book is that a lot of the material that is asked in the practice questions isn't covered in the material that you are reviewing.

I wouldn't worry so much about the part on law and the terms associated with it because I focused a lot on that part of the book and none of those questions were asked, but would look into mail, and cpt and icd - 10 things on my own, because these subjects were not covered in the book but we're on the exam, I am a strictly clinical medical assistant and knew nothing about coding and mail but still managed to pass