Firstly, my husband is back from riding from coast to coast to raise money for the British Heart Foundation! Secondly, arriving on the same day as him was my proof copy of The Maker’s Mask. I was gladder to see him. Really. 🙂 On the whole, I’m pretty pleased with it. The good news is […]
Read More Proof copy, and triumphant return of husbandI’ve bitten the bullet, bought image rights from istockphoto.com, and been playing around with cover images. This one is for The Maker’s Mask, from a photograph by Peter Zelei and a piece of concept art from loops7: And this one is for The Hawkwood War, from a painting by Yaroslav Gerzhedovich and the same art […]
Read More Look at us, we’re cover plusWell, both books are now in Bookman Old Style (I typed that ‘Boomkan Old Style’ the first time round, which sounds like an explosive device out of an Evil Dead movie) and I think I’ve dealt with all the mysterious extra pages, and the pages at the end of a chapter with only two words […]
Read More Font saga continued and thoughts about tropes… as I discovered yesterday when trying to upload a document in a font I thought Lulu recognised. My fault for not reading the font guidelines closely enough. So, I’ve been mourning Palatino Linotype and seeing how the book looks in various other font types. And yes, I realise that this is a first-world problem. […]
Read More Palatino Linotype is not Palatino…New excerpt up here! Warning: The Maker’s Mask and The Hawkwood War started life as one book and still make more sense if read together – there is a resolution at the end of The Maker’s Mask, but there are several plotlines that carry over – so if you know you’re planning on getting at […]
Read More Read an excerpt from The Hawkwood War!My husband is planning to ride from coast to coast [1] on a unicycle to raise money for the British Heart Foundation in a couple of weeks’ time. He’s already ridden from Bristol to Cardiff. The British Heart Foundation do really important work, so if you have some spare money to throw his way, his […]
Read More And in non-book newsSo far this week has been taken up with getting to grips with Word 2010’s formatting tools and with the newest version of The GIMP, in order to make title page images for Maker’s Mask and Hawkwood War. I’ve also found a bit of time to work on Heavy Ice, and here’s an excerpt. Herakleion […]
Read More What I’ve been doing this week, and another excerptAnnoying things: looking at an inoffensive little scene that gives an outsider’s view on your heroine and her views and has some nice description in it, and realising that the reader already knows about the heroine’s outlook on life by now and that there was a snippet of physical description of her only a couple […]
Read More Annoying things, no.1Madame Guillotine has a really interesting post up On Self Publishing With Lulu. (Also, you can see me failing at threaded comments. Oh, WordPress, I am still a bumbling newbie where you are concerned).
Read More Madame Guillotine talks about why she’s publishing with LuluThe two halves of the Digital Doorstop are now to be The Maker’s Mask and The Hawkwood War, after much wailing, gnashing of teeth and failing to come up with alternate titles. I’ve never been more grateful that the project I’m working on at present turned up knowing what its title was from the start […]
Read More Read an excerpt from The Maker’s Mask!
Ankaret Wells 