You have countless decisions to
make about the book cover, back - cover blurb, book formats, metadata, and promotion.
Not exact matches
At least that way you can manage your own tendency to judge a
book by it's
cover and
make clever decisions
about how you present yourself.
Made the bread tonight as per the recipe book «ml» and «g» measurements, and subbed in walnuts for almonds because that's what I had — Just testing a slice covered in my home made walnut and kidney bean spread... Yummy Think I need a touch more salt but I'm always a bit worried about over seasoning... I used mixed herbs but think I would love to add some garlic (powder maybe) next time, and use selected herbs rather than the commercial
Made the bread tonight as per the recipe
book «ml» and «g» measurements, and subbed in walnuts for almonds because that's what I had — Just testing a slice
covered in my home
made walnut and kidney bean spread... Yummy Think I need a touch more salt but I'm always a bit worried about over seasoning... I used mixed herbs but think I would love to add some garlic (powder maybe) next time, and use selected herbs rather than the commercial
made walnut and kidney bean spread... Yummy Think I need a touch more salt but I'm always a bit worried
about over seasoning... I used mixed herbs but think I would love to add some garlic (powder maybe) next time, and use selected herbs rather than the commercial mix.
Materials • Two «two - by - four» or similar size wood planks,
about one half meter long works best • Small plastic tub with lid • Sand or another dense material to fill the tub • Water • Freezer •
Books • Ruler • Protractor • A carpeted area or a rug that can get damp (or a protective
covering, such as a large plastic trash bag) Preparation •
Make sure that the pieces of wood have surfaces that are similar in roughness and are
about the same length and width.
These
books are more practically useful for later stages of ovarian imbalance: - estrogen dominance / deficiency: there are three estrogens you need to know
about, all are best
covered in an excellent early chapter of «Natural Health for Women» by Roger Mason; - progesterone deficiency: «Dr. John Lee's Hormone Balance
Made Simple» and «Dr. Eckhart's How to Use Progesterone Cream Practical Guide for Avoiding Side Effects & Chemical Estrogens».
I heard
about your plan of Lose the Wheat and Lose the Weight, got the
book read it
cover to
cover, got the cookbook, bought all the stuff I could afford, stopped all the wheat,
made the food in the cookbook and guess what?
Talking
about breastfeeding, whenever I opened a
book about it, I got slammed in the face by things such as» of course you can't wear black when you are breastfeeding, you will be
covered in baby milk — and other things — all the time», «drooling babies will ruin your clothes, so don't bother dressing up», and of course «having to take your breast out every three hours doesn't
make wearing anything fashionable very appealing».
Making his directorial debut with an adaptation of Molly Bloom's 2014 memoir
about running a high - stakes poker game, Aaron Sorkin fills the script with smart (and improbably sassy) zingers, including this put - down, by Bloom's lawyer (Idris Elba), of the
cover photo chosen by his client (Jessica Chastain) for her
book:
The following will give teachers an idea of what to expect from this resource: - Descriptive writing of characters and The Island Diary writing Comparing and contrasting characters Argumentative writing Opinion / fact Spelling Speech Research skills: - Leprosy, The Philippines, The Bible and Facts
about The Author Drawing activities: - new
cover, characters, map Life cycle of a butterfly Themes in the novel Writing a
book review Craft: - How to
make a symmetrical butterfly
Texts
covered: - Queer stories for a queer age - tattoo article (19th century) text included -
Making my skin crawl - article
about tattoos - Extract from Girl of the period (19th century)- A letter from Jenni - Inside the supermarket's dark stores Not all texts are included - but can easily be found in the text
book below: AQA GCSE English Language: Developing the skills for learning and assessment (turtle on the
cover)
The pack includes: Story Power point - a power point presentation of the sequencing pictures for children to retell the story Interactive Power point - a power point
about the story with questions Display banners Display border A4
Book information poster Sequencing pictures Picture flash cards Large alphabet - large alphabet letters in lower and upper case each night sky pictures and a flying owl Large owl pictures Constellation posters A4 word card Number line - an owl number line to 50 Alphabet line - an alphabet line on bright stars Speech bubble worksheets Writing sheets Story word cards Writing worksheets Story sack tags Question cards Owl writing sheets Counting cards Colouring pictures Owl masks Owl finger puppets Make a moving owl - cut out the owl pieces and attach using split pins Word searches A collection of worksheets - these could be made into a workbook using the book cover or used individually: · Favourite part of the story · Write a book review · Speech bubble worksheet · Write about what you are afraid of · Who said what - draw each character next to the speech bubbles · Two question worksheets · Cut and sequence the story · Write sentences about the different pictures Nocturnal animals A photo pack of different nocturnal animals Masks in colour and black and white of nocturnal animals A Powerpoint about nocturnal animals A wordsearch Light and Dark A colourful banner Question cards about day and night and light and dark A Powerpoint about light and dark Word cards A themed bingo game A wordsearch Photos of different sources of light Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by oursel
Book information poster Sequencing pictures Picture flash cards Large alphabet - large alphabet letters in lower and upper case each night sky pictures and a flying owl Large owl pictures Constellation posters A4 word card Number line - an owl number line to 50 Alphabet line - an alphabet line on bright stars Speech bubble worksheets Writing sheets Story word cards Writing worksheets Story sack tags Question cards Owl writing sheets Counting cards Colouring pictures Owl masks Owl finger puppets
Make a moving owl - cut out the owl pieces and attach using split pins Word searches A collection of worksheets - these could be
made into a workbook using the
book cover or used individually: · Favourite part of the story · Write a book review · Speech bubble worksheet · Write about what you are afraid of · Who said what - draw each character next to the speech bubbles · Two question worksheets · Cut and sequence the story · Write sentences about the different pictures Nocturnal animals A photo pack of different nocturnal animals Masks in colour and black and white of nocturnal animals A Powerpoint about nocturnal animals A wordsearch Light and Dark A colourful banner Question cards about day and night and light and dark A Powerpoint about light and dark Word cards A themed bingo game A wordsearch Photos of different sources of light Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by oursel
book cover or used individually: · Favourite part of the story · Write a
book review · Speech bubble worksheet · Write about what you are afraid of · Who said what - draw each character next to the speech bubbles · Two question worksheets · Cut and sequence the story · Write sentences about the different pictures Nocturnal animals A photo pack of different nocturnal animals Masks in colour and black and white of nocturnal animals A Powerpoint about nocturnal animals A wordsearch Light and Dark A colourful banner Question cards about day and night and light and dark A Powerpoint about light and dark Word cards A themed bingo game A wordsearch Photos of different sources of light Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by oursel
book review · Speech bubble worksheet · Write
about what you are afraid of · Who said what - draw each character next to the speech bubbles · Two question worksheets · Cut and sequence the story · Write sentences
about the different pictures Nocturnal animals A photo pack of different nocturnal animals Masks in colour and black and white of nocturnal animals A Powerpoint
about nocturnal animals A wordsearch Light and Dark A colourful banner Question cards
about day and night and light and dark A Powerpoint
about light and dark Word cards A themed bingo game A wordsearch Photos of different sources of light Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.
Resources included are as follows: 3 0 P D F files for you to print: Key word cards, chapter 2 to read, chapter 2 writing task
about finding the key, Story elements, Story board to complete, writing pages, A 4 topic title to introduce the
book, retell the story from another point of view, write a diary entry task, write a postcard, acrostic poem to complete,
make words from letters, photo pack, flashcards of character names, character descriptions, my favourite part of the story is — drawing page, I like this story because writing task, design a new
book cover, draw a garden scene, hand puppet template to draw, draw a family portrait, writing booklet
cover to keep pupils project work together, large display items door to the garden and large key, long banner to head wall display, large letters to spell out
book title, display border to edge wall display, story sack tag to keep resources together.
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
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
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
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
It will
make them wonder what you
book is
about and move from the
cover to your blurb or back
cover copy, where your writing will pull them in.
Branding is Everything — If your website is
about your
book,
make sure the colors, fonts and imagery matches your
book cover.
We asked her
about writing and marketing YA fantasy, launching a successful first
book, accumulating a street team, getting bloggers to reveal your
cover, and having paperbacks and hardbacks as well as ebooks
made.
I've seen several posts
about covers in
book blogs this week, many inspired by a
making - of - a-cover trailer released by Orbit
Books.
The publisher can
make decisions
about your
book you don't like, such as changing the title, manuscript,
cover art, or other key elements.
My question (s) would be
about «marketing» — particularly around what
makes a good
cover design and what
makes a good «
Book Description» on your amazon book sales p
Book Description» on your amazon
book sales p
book sales page.
Since so much of finding an audience and selling a
book is
about how a
book is positioned in the marketplace, it's also important to get feedback
about how your
book compares to other
books in its genre, and whether the way it's presented (for example, the
book's
cover and title)
makes sense to a reader.
Make it moody, dark, cool — then upload it to your computer and add some text (you can actually make a complete book cover design on your smart phone, but I'll write another post about that
Make it moody, dark, cool — then upload it to your computer and add some text (you can actually
make a complete book cover design on your smart phone, but I'll write another post about that
make a complete
book cover design on your smart phone, but I'll write another post
about that...)
They can also
make decisions
about their
book cover design, interior design, etc..
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.»
Jonathan Gunson talks
about what
makes a great
book cover at the link below to Bestseller Labs.
Tell them why you
made certain decisions
about your storyline, or where you did your research, or how you picked your
book cover, for example.
Once we talk
about your
book cover design, you can then
make a deposit on one of the our custom
cover packages we offer.
It's great if it can also truthfully represent the
book, but it's always better to use a powerful
cover that doesn't quite represent the
book accurately, but doubles your sales, than it is to represent the
book accurately (a mistake most authors
make) with a shitty
cover crammed full of exact details and pictures and scenes and meanings that you can explain and talk
about for an hour but nobody else gets (or even likes).
A tagline or strapline is that thing that goes on fiction
covers, tells them more
about the genre / topic / setting while also
making them interested in buying the
book.
Below you'll find links to all the information
about book cover design that's available on the Book Design Made Simple website, book, videos, and b
book cover design that's available on the
Book Design Made Simple website, book, videos, and b
Book Design
Made Simple website,
book, videos, and b
book, videos, and blog.
A feature (1)
makes a statement
about something other than the overall craftsmanship of a comic, and (2) a feature is not obliged to
cover either a single
book alone or all of one
book's parts.
But what
about the writers who still have a desire (for whatever reason) to
make it in the traditional publishing world, to see hard copy
books with their names on the
covers?
People
make up their mind
about a
book just by looking at the
cover and they do so in a fraction of a second.
Our high quality
cover designs stand out in a sea of
books and
make readers want to learn more
about what's inside.
The
cover is what will draw a reader in and
make them pick up your
book to learn more
about it.
I enjoyed this video
about book cover design, as I'm starting to
make my own videos.
Authors tend to
make the same mistakes, unless they're educated
about what a
book cover design is actual for or what it has to do.
PS) These
covers may seem familiar; that's because I've modeled them after best - selling
books to show you that
covers made in MS Word can match just
about any style.
Owning the rights to your
book means you
make the final decisions
about pricing, distribution,
cover art,
book interior design, and so on, and so on, and so on.
With my guidance, you can quickly learn to
make your own
cover in MS Word, completely customize one of the templates, and in
about 15 minutes, you'll have a very stylish, high quality, totally unique
book cover.
So instead of a sales page
making a big long argument
about why they should buy my product, I start with a small but powerful page that says, «Get FREE video training on how to easily
make your own
book covers, and I'll send you some free
cover design templates as well.»
So yesterday on the phenomenal review of Red over at Smart Bitches, Trashy
Books (see, I'm so excited I had to slip that in and share it with you again, in case you missed it), someone
made a comment
about my
cover being «just like» the
cover of Under Her Skin.
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 get some distribution sales through Lulu, and ebook sales are starting to pick up through Amazon and Barnes & Noble, but I
make most of my sales by presenting slideshows
about the places my
books cover.
And now, another sample of the Juggling Author
book: A few words
about self - sufficiency: maybe, if you're an independent author, you're tempted to
make all your own
covers and -LSB-...]
Lothlorien also blogs for Digital
Book World
about writing and publishing practices, including a pending piece entitled, «Does This
Cover Make Me Look Fat?
«It's not uncommon for the
books in some series to
make no reference to their series in the
book title,
book cover or
book description,» stated Smashwords» CEO Mark Coker in a blog post
about the new offering.
The
book covers the life and times of Steve Jobs and gives you an introspective on how he went
about developing the products that
made Apple a critical success.
It's a little ironic to judge Derrick Barnes» Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by its
cover, but this picture
book is all
about making a good appearance, so why not?