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Virtual Release Party: The Chapter Photos

I’d like to extend special thanks to the wonderful photographers who shared their photos with me for the chapter photos in Don’t Judge a Book By Its Magic! There were so many cool shots of the kooky Seattle landmarks that it was hard to choose which ones to use. But these photos were the cream of the crop! Of course, I gave them credit inside the book, and a free ecopy of the book, but I want to be sure to include them in the party as a wonderful part of my book!

See all the photos as they appear in the book here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/katepolicani/sets/72157631371763434/

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Cover Work Continued

I felt like my cover needed something to look more like a professional cover than it did.

Here’s what it looked like after my first round of experiments:

 

This is what I came up with after some more tinkering:

What do you think of my changes? Should I keep them?

 

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Ducks in a Row

My title is chosen and my cover is ready, so it was time to fix up my book page for Don’t Judge a Book By Its Magic. Se it here: http://katepolicani.com/works-in-progress/dont-judge-a-book-by-its-magic/

My revised trailer video is there, or you can see it here: http://youtu.be/Ih7yjpv-_bQ

I also started a new Kickstarter campaign. It isn’t active yet but you can see the preview here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/523666041/1337809747?token=bbf91262

This time I worked my project as more of a pre-order program with some extras included. If you wanted to buy my book, this is a fun way to get it, with extras available if you want more than just what you can get on Amazon.

I learned more about how to better run the Kickstarter project.

1. Make your low earnings goal as your project goal, not your maximum amount. You can earn and keep money above your goal amount, but you lose it all if you don’t reach your goal.

2. Don’t run the project too early before rewards will be available. I’m closer to the time when I can give buyers their rewards for contributing.

3. Provide plenty of  inexpensive rewards. If I were thinking of contributing, it wouldn’t be $20 to some stranger’s book.

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Cover Work

 I Seattle-ized this one. Is blue really better?

Been tweaking the cover more! Special thanks to Cynthia Mael, Marc Policani, Tahlia Newland, and Maria Tatham for their input! The back cover will be the same for all, except the first will have a tan back instead of red.

What do you think?

See them all here http://www.flickr.com/photos/katepolicani/sets/72157630198732104/

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New Book Cover

First, I have to say how much I LOVE my cover art! Heidi Barnett did a fantastic job!

What do you think? Is there anything I can tweak to make it better?

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Tale of Three Covers

My darling hubby had yet another fabulous idea: don’t choose which cover I like best. Do them all! My Facebook Peeps all voted for multiple covers, but liked the cream and black one best. On Facebook, my blog, and friends in person preferred the blue cover. Most authors chose the red. I wonder what that says about the different people groups. Nobody really spoke up for the one with the dark blue cover, and I was able to combine the red lettering that some people liked with the design on the blue-gray one.

I added a blue jewel to the necklace partly because that is how I envisioned the jewelry Angelina would wear, and partly because I wanted to avoid any copyright issues with the original necklace.

So  here are the three covers for The Lustre!

 

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Cover Noodling

I have been messing around with CreateSpace Cover Creator, seeing what I might make into my cover! My photos are generously supplied by my Dad, who I hope will let me feature some of his other photographs for my Virtual Launch Party. What do you think? Which is your favorite?

   

   

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The Lustre is Almost Done! Join the Party Planning!

The Lustre edit came in this morning and I burned through the notes! This week, I should have a beautiful file for all of you pre-review rockers. I am really excited about this story, and I’ve read it about 50 times!

Please visit my Virtual Party Planning page, which will become the Virtual Party page on my release date, March 15th. I’m hoping that lots of you want to contribute to my launch! I need pre-reviewers, party host blogs (I’ll supply all your post info for you), and guest books to feature at the party. I would also consider music, art, poetry, and other genres if they fit in with The Lustre and its theme. If anyone has other ideas or suggestions, I am glad to hear them.

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Contracts. EEK!

I know that they are necessary and good, but contracts scare me. There is so much in them and so much that could be hidden in there or left out when it is needed. Also your language could be less specific than it needs to be. Anyway I still do them because even though everybody is nice and reasonable, misunderstandings occur and contracts protect everybody.

When I wanted one for my cover artists so that we all could keep things clear, it was really really hard to find. I could find plenty of lawyer-ish blogs about how to write one, but I don’t know how to do that! I just wanted a sample form letter-type contract that I could adjust and print. I ended up finding one on another author’s site and re-writing it for my own purposes. http://www.vajraenterprises.com/artcontract1.htm Thank You, Brian King and Vajra Enterprises, for posting this for us, the unprepared and inexperienced. I took this (Copy, Paste) and pared it down, taking out his name and company name, removing the conditions that didn’t apply to me and my artists, and then putting in my own.

It is kind of amazing that it is SO hard to get a plain old hard copy of something. Email makes us lazy! Erik, one of the artist dynamic duo, came here to use our camera and we didn’t even remember about the contract. All the more reason to get together and grill!

 

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