Category: Book Covers

Marketing Your Book – Making Your Book’s Message Clear

Everything used to market a book, whether it’s the cover, the website, marketing pieces, or the words out of the author’s mouth, need to send a clear message about what the book is about. Too many authors forget that their purpose is to spread their message and sell books when it comes to presenting their [...]

MacBook Cases – Excellent Covers to Protect Our MacBook From Scratches

In most of the times, the Mac book pro cases will mainly do two things: enhance the look and style of your MacBook and sometimes, in the sturdiest models, protect them from the accidental drop. Here one thing we need remembers that these Pro cases are also known as Mac book hard cases. If you [...]

Jane Hamilton-Merritt: Her library exhibit is a walk through the evolution of book cover art

Written by Susan Wolf Saturday, 26 November 2011 00:00 To the unknowing eye, the books on display in the cases at the Mark Twain Library may just look like — books. but they are so much more. they represent the evolution of book cover art. “Books and their covers are cultural objects,” said Jane Hamilton-Merritt [...]

The Berkley Book Corner hails the return of the neighborhood bookstore

Michelle and Victor Woodell and daughter. Victor Woodell and his wife Michelle are bound and determined to operate an independent bookstore that bucks hard times and changing reading habits. To them, the recession offers a chance to succeed where others failed, and they’re banking on their business backgrounds and visions of books holding firm against [...]

Kevin Eastman To Exhibit Himself At Meltdown Comics Through November And December Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

From November 30th until January 4th, Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman will be running five different shows in Metldown Comics’ new gallery space at 7522 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. And exhibiting himself. This will include a new art exhibit opening on New Comics Day, every Wednesday from 6pm to 10pm. Basically, expect Kevin Eastman to [...]

Creating Effective eBook Cover Art in Minutes

Ebook cover art is an important aspect to consider if you want to sell your book. Eye-catching covers do not only support your sales point but they as well make your eBook look real. A good eBook cover box should not only be made out of a flat or 2D graphical representation, it should be [...]

The View from a Recovering Partisan

WASHINGTON – My e-book is scheduled to be published in less than two weeks, on November 8th. it will be available on Amazon, to download on Kindle, or on Barnes and Noble, as well as iPad. It’s a busy, exciting time in my world. Since I announced my book two weeks ago, I’ve had a [...]

I Designed My Own Book Cover

My writing career began when I self-published a family story about sunflowers. since then, a sunflower has been my unofficial logo. I love sunflowers and other people do, too. In 2005 my book about anticipatory grief, written with a physician co-author, was published by BookSurge, an Amazon company. BookSurge is a print on demand publisher, [...]

Book Covers – What You Must Know Before Buying Them

Books are often times the gifts that keeps on giving. Before movies, video games, and the internet people kept themselves entertained by reading books and many times they would share books in order to save money. Well, when a bunch of people share one book and it gets passed on from one person to another [...]

Interview with illustrator Jon MacNair

Jon MacNair was born in South Korea and grew up in the suburbs of the Midwest. he attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore where he earned a BFA in illustration. his illustration work has mostly been featured in editorial publications like Pittsburgh City Paper, the Riverfront Times, Baltimore Magazine, the Seattle stranger [...]