Here’s a picture provided by a very helpful person at Ingram Spark (waves to Erica), pointing out several serious placement errors in what I thought was a nicely-crafted cover for the A-format paperback edition of Harsh Lessons. Less for advertising than to warn readers what to expect.Īnd let’s start with a picture of the sort of errors that can occur if you don’t pay close attention to the trim and guide marks provided by your publisher. Often see in traditionally-published books.
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(Simply because I prefer that size forĭigression, before I get to the topic at hand: the internalĬhanges were switching the dialogue quotation style for the first twoīooks to match that of the 3 rd. I was alsoįinally ready to make the 4.25"x7" A-format ‘mass market’ Reformatting the internals of the first two. IĪlso wanted to make some subtle changes to the covers, along with Sci-fi/fantasy convention coming up (the Sydneyįreecon, Nov 3,4,5), but I have zero printed copies on hand. (I wrote it today because someone - hi, Eustacia! - was interested.) Well-designed, and… I just love it! It’s also free, and It’s surprisingly easy to use, amazingly powerful and
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Scribus - I’m sure there are Youtube videos covering that, andĪnyway, its manual and the tutorials that come with it are very good.