Category Archives: Design
Readers rule: Elizabeth Gilbert and the crowdsourced cover
In my last installment, I warned against clinging too tightly to your one and only book cover idea. It’s dangerous to be so invested in your own aesthetic preferences that you lose sight of what will sell your book. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged book covers, crowdsourcing, Elizabeth Gilbert
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You better shop around
Say you’ve decided to join a dating site. Shortly after signing up, you find a profile that intrigues you. The person is interested in the same things you are, seems intelligent, has a great sense of humor, the works. Do … Continue reading
Browsers and brains: Why it pays to know your audience
At some point back in the late ’90s, I thought about going into web design. Two seconds later I decided against it. My scant HTML experience had taught me that designing for different browsers was a pain. You could code … Continue reading