Month: August 2011
Lately I’ve been exploring the new epub functionality in InDesign CS5.5. One of the things that has previously been difficult is controlling the order of objects in the…
How does a hurricane move? It “barrels” and “churns,” to judge from the most popular verbs. “Lumbers” is the oddest verb choice, yet it is used rather often,…
Feliz cien duodécimo, estimado señor autor!
I made a simple landing page for 1616. (It’s just a big image map — a picture with clickable areas –that’s about 200 KB.) If it doesn’t load and look okay for you let me know.
There’s room to expand to the right. If I get another blurb or two I’ll shift the brief descriptive copy right. That copy is adapted from the publisher’s catalogue. Even though I live in Richmond, home of Rosie the Riveter, I would not normally refer to my own writing as “riveting.” But I am trying to be a good compliant author.
UPDATE 1: The blurb text was too small so I moved the descriptive copy right. Compare the finished page to the thumbnail above by clicking though on it.
UPDATE 2: I added a simple slide show of sample spreads.
“Every separation is a link” — Simone Weil
- Google+ and SEO : “one step further to understanding the Internet not as centered around content, but around relationships”
- Google+ fervor may be making Facebook nervous : G+ could have as much as 1 percent of FB’s users
- Test Your Vocabulary : For science!
- What’s a good password? : This is interesting
- Quick guide to typography : not bad
It seems clear at this point that, particularly in genres like romance and science fiction, e-books are cutting into print sales. Right now we’re in a transitional period…
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