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Monthly Archives: January 2018

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Judging a book by its cover

27JanuaryJade CJourneycover design, SelfPubBookCovers, Shardelsbookcoverdesigns

How often are we told not to judge a book by its cover? How often are we told that first impressions count? If first impressions count, then we ARE judging by the cover if the cover’s the first thing you see on a bookstore shelf. That contrariness is just another thing to make writers nervous.

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Turning a chimera into…

24JanuaryJade CJourneyAmazon, blurb, categories, description, keywords

Well, it’s about turning a 150K word novel with three first-person narrators and multiple themes into a no-more-than 250 word description for Amazon. Mackerel Sky is twenty-two today, hence my posting. Even if I’m not writing, I know the anniversary date. Twenty-two years is ridiculous, but in all honesty it has really only been since

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