by Dan | Oct 22, 2016 | design, Galactic Arena, Sci-fi
Yesterday, I asked for your help in judging which cover to go for. Now, I’ve put my best team of statisticians on tabulating the numbers and analysing the data and… I can now report the results: Yep so the winner by quite a long way is cover no.1 aka the...
by Dan | Oct 21, 2016 | design, Galactic Arena, Sci-fi
I need your help! Inhuman Contact the first Galactic Arena prequel is being proofread and so is nearly ready for release. But I need to decided on a cover. Please can you look at these 4 options and let me know what one you think is best?! So, bearing in mind that any...
by Dan | Oct 5, 2016 | design, Galactic Arena, Space
I have been trying out different compositions and colours for the new book. Here’s one I quite like. If you put a spaceship on the cover of your spaceship-based book then I think that tells the reader pretty clearly that there’s a spaceship involved in the...
by Dan | Aug 14, 2016 | design, Galactic Arena, Indie publishing
If you are an independent author – as I am – then whatever you do, do not attempt to design your own cover. You will fail, it will be lame. Good advice…? Or a challenge! The advice goes like this: it’s much better to spend your time writing...
by Dan | Aug 10, 2016 | design, Galactic Arena, Sci-fi
That’s it, I’m done. I’ve been editing this book for a thousand years and I can’t take it any more (this means that it’s done). The book is ready for a proof read, then final publishing / formatting checks and I will unleash this beauty....
by Dan | Mar 13, 2016 | design, history, horror, Indie publishing, the Immortal Knight Chronicles, Vampires
New Cover for Vampire Crusader What do you think? Better than the older version? I think I like the single-weapon concept better, might redo that cover later on and make the whole series like that. For example, book 3 would have a kilij (middle...
