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​Why cover design matters
A book’s cover is the first sales pitch, whether that happens in a bookstore, on Amazon, or as a tiny thumbnail on a phone. Before a reader reads a single word of your blurb, the cover has already answered a few unconscious questions:
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What kind of book is this?
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Is this professional?
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Does this feel like something I’d enjoy?
If the cover gets those wrong, most readers never click, never pick it up, never read page one.
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1. It stops the scroll (or the walk-by)
You usually have 2–3 seconds to grab attention. A strong cover uses color, contrast, typography, and imagery to stand out instantly....
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Eve Marie
Eve enjoys writing and has several published poems and short stories. Her background is in teaching, having taught English/ESOL on three continents at all grade levels. She is currently teaching English/Composition at the collegiate level. She enjoys reading and gardening but also finds time to bake, having owned a bakery for several years. She currently lives in Tampa, Florida, with her husband and Pug.
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Born and raised in rural Idaho, Jim Belson has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California where he pioneered a unique program in cultural studies. Director of the famed Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities for a number of years, Belson later wrote and produced the Emmy Award-winning documentary about an Oakland street gang, “Children of Violence,” along with numerous other short documentary and educational films. The Odyssey of Zalaman Aszer is his first novel. Jim is currently working on the sequel.
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Peter Clothier
He is a full time author of poetry, novels, and
several essay collections, as well as a monograph on British artist, David Hockney.
With vivid memories of WWII England, Peter Clothier experienced a privileged boarding school and Cambridge University education before coming to the US in 1964. After four years as a poet at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and a doctorate in comparative literature, he set out on an academic career at USC, then as Dean at Otis Art Institute and Loyola Marymount University. He quit academia nearly forty years ago to write.
Enjoyment of the Same was co-written with Franklin Adams
Angela Page
Angela Page is a writer, producer and author of "Matched in Heaven and Suddenly Single Sylvia." She is based in South Florida and Los Angeles.
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Mia Altieri
Mia is a Los Angeles based actress, author, and voice over artist. She lived in a Topanga Canyon guesthouse where she witnessed an urn buried in the yard and agreed to manage the mourners.
Ever wish you could chuck everything and sail off into the sunset?
We wanted more out of life after forty. This is our story - a baby-boomer couple who abandoned our San Diego corporate lifestyle, and all our "stuff," for a life in the Caribbean. At times, we lowered our expectations to the depths of our souls.
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Spanning twenty-five years, the transition from
minimum wage at a pirate bar living in a grass hut to handling millionaire yacht owners, make hurricanes look like child's play.
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We weathered twelve hurricanes and hosted 100 plus yacht
charters, outlived three firings, endured five resignations, even survived life in a van without divorcing - all the while looking for that perfect job.
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There's a yacht more to the story that kept this romance underway at full speed. Our story might just compel you to revisit your own dreams, seize opportunities and, just maybe, find your own
If you like Crichton, Clancy, and Silva...
You will love reading Woodbridge
This techno-thriller explores a brave new world of human-engineered viral weapons, sentient AI
supercomputers, intelligent drones, amorous robots, intense human passion, and clandestine cloak-and-dagger intrigue.
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"Stunning is the only word I can think of to describe The Silent Sentinels."
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- Tim McMahon, Major General (retired)
His short story collection, Diamonds and Moths, explores the lyrical boundaries of flash fiction. Diamonds and Moths is inspired by the intellectual meta-fiction of Jorge Luis Borges and the lyrical immediacy of Japanese haiku. Steve is currently working on his next book.
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Steve Wechselblatt lives in Weaverville, North Carolina.
Award-winning author Steve Wechselblatt has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. His short stories have appeared in an annual survey of Modern Poetry in Translation, edited by Daniel Weissbort with an introduction by Ted Hughes; Circa, the Journal of Historical Fiction; Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine; and Chicago Literati, among others.
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Rebecca J. Johnston
Rebecca Johnston graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors in English and Modern European History in 2015, and in 2017 she graduated with her Masters in English from the University of Texas at Tyler. Currently Rebecca is pursuing a doctoral degree from the University of Exeter while also serving as the Vice President of the Florida Hemingway Society. She has had academic articles published both nationally and internationally, and she has received research grants from the Hemingway Society and the JFK Library in Boston. Rebecca is an English Professor at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida.
Joseph C. Polacco
Joe Polacco was born and raised in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst neighborhood, though he has been a citizen of Missouri most of his adult life. He lives in Columbia, Missouri, and is Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at the University of Missouri. After years of producing limericks and jokingly being called “Poet Laureate of Biochemistry,” he decided to write a more serious memoir, Vina, upon the passing of his mother. This is his fourth non-science book.
We are currently formattint Joe's next book, working title,
Potpourri, Peripatetic Prose-Poetry Paired Perspectives
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