Write to Publish – BE THERE

Hey All, I assume most of the people reading this blog are interested in things literary. Why else would you be reading this? All I talk about is books! So let’s talk about books. And publishing. And graphic novels. And acquisitions. And agents. And young adult writing. And…..everything else? I can’t talk about everything and [...]

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Friday Font 4/16

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A Book Nerd’s Decorating Tips

Books feature heavily in all my decorating. Which really means that I have no decorating expertise or ideas at all, but instead tend to pile books everywhere and hope it looks okay. I have books filling my bookcase, obviously, but I also have them stacked on top of and underneath the coffee table, with bog [...]

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Know Your Typographer – Ooligan

I’m going to be honest: I don’t know much about Design. So the Design team at Ooligan always impresses me, with their knowledge of publishing software, typefaces, and apparently even typographers! Here’s a link to an interesting article by an Ooligan student about Design, and living your life as a designer: Know Your Typographer. That’s [...]

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Book Covers – A Thing of the Past?

I took a Design class last term, and I designed several book covers that I am very proud of. Here’s one I did for the Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet: So, having more recently acquired this skill and an appreciation of what book cover designers actually do, I was very sad to read this [...]

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