Updating book covers can be a surprisingly long and frustrating experience, but when it works it really is satisfying!
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Every Store Should Have a Front
If you look closely you can see all of my current novels in the window!
Moving Forward
Compromise is not always a comfortable situation when you feel even a little bit creative, in fact it always seems a little less than genuine to me
The Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre
The Troubadour is a new building having opened in 2019. It is very functional and not designed to be easy on the eye. The auditorium is on one level and the seating is designed to be flexible so as to accommodate various types of productions, what it does not accommodate very well is people with impaired mobility
It Takes a Double Take
A week or two ago I updated all the covers of my novels on Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). It took awhile as you have to go into each book and update the content even when the only change is to the image used for the cover. When you have seven novels to work on that … Continue reading It Takes a Double Take
The Pitfalls of Design
I ordered a paperback copy of my latest book, The Devil Within Us, for my wife. She is one of those readers who prefer to hold a book rather than look at an electronic representation of it. I do not view such people as luddites, and not just because I am married to her, everyone … Continue reading The Pitfalls of Design
Writing My Seventh Novel – Part Fourteen
This has been fun! I have really enjoyed the experience of both writing a book and posting updates here about the progress. I think that splitting my time between the two activities has been really helpful. At the start of the lockdown I was a designated key worker, but later I was identified as at … Continue reading Writing My Seventh Novel – Part Fourteen
Writing My Seventh Novel – Part Thirteen
Part Thirteen? That seems a little coincidental! Up until a few days ago I did not have a proper title for this book, which made designing the cover somewhat problematic to say the least. I was still using the working title of 'Mephistopheles', but I knew that it was not appropriate. The story begins with … Continue reading Writing My Seventh Novel – Part Thirteen
New Covers for Old Books
Every so often I get the compunction to review my previous work. Sometimes this means going through the manuscript, usually looking for typographical errors or examples of poor writing. Occasionally, as in this case, I look at the covers of my books. When I first started writing I decided to design my own covers, not … Continue reading New Covers for Old Books
Launching ‘The Queen of the Mountain Kingdom’
I spent some time looking at that old bugbear marketing before I officially released The Queen of the Mountain Kingdom. I decided to utilise one of the recommendations regarding doing a book-launch. It was a very simple idea; give the book away for free. The eBook market is saturated. Thanks to fifty Shades of Grey … Continue reading Launching ‘The Queen of the Mountain Kingdom’
Peter C Whitaker 