It’s been ages since I’ve posted anything about my work, so it must seem I don’t work much at all. But, despite my lack of blogging and my endless playing on Farmville, I’m still doing my thing. I think last year I worked on 40-50 print covers, and goodness knows how many e-book covers I did — hundreds, I’m guessing. I’d go insane trying to pick a dozen of them to show here, so I’ll show only my first mass…
I was in Maryland last week, in various cities. Saturday, I was in Easton to watch a movie in the Chesapeake Film Festival. It was a movie, believe it or not, about movie trailers, called Coming Attractions. And no, I never saw a trailer for it. It was really more a documentary than a movie, but it detailed how movie trailers came to be and how they came to be called trailers, though they do anything but trail after a…
I’ve been working in the e-publishing industry for almost six years now, and I’ve worked for over a handful of publishers and with more authors than I can count. I’ve talked on the phone with maybe a total of six of these people in all these years, but I’ve only met one person face to face: Tina Burns, publisher at Liquid Silver Books. And that was just recently, really. I’ll be meeting with her again tonight while she’s in town…
It’s Friday the 13th, and I’m excited. H.E. got me an appointment for a one-hour massage today, and I get to have someone professionally work out the kinks in my back. Sitting at the computer all day making book covers isn’t exactly strenuous work, but it can be pretty hard on my neck and shoulders; I often have to take breaks just to stave off stiffness and headache, and at the end of a full day’s work I truly welcome…
This is just a quickie, as I don’t really have the time to compose anything meaningful. I’m over at the Creative Direction Workshop with Anne Cain, CrocoDesigns, and Christine M. Griffin, where we’re teaching cover design and all that jazz. My classes focus more on the tools and the techniques, since vision and inspiration aren’t really as teachable. Either you have an eye, or you don’t. I’m also busy working on covers and various other things, getting over my second…