Making Covers: 1 — Introduction

Foreword: This is the first in a series of journals I’ll be posting about book covers, and how to make them. It is intended for the self-publishing writer with limited resources, but anyone who has any interest in creating covers can hopefully find some helpful info here. For my part, I am a self-publishing writer, but …

Everything is Connected

I think I am a writer/artist (as opposed to an artist/writer), but to be perfectly honest, what I am is someone who makes up stories. Sometimes they get written down; sometimes they get drawn. Sometimes the artwork is there to illustrate a story; sometimes the story comes from a drawing. And sometimes (quite often, in …