1 THE PROFESSIONAL DUMMY DEEP IN THE bowels of the London Palladium, Argyll Street was a corridor filled with dressing rooms. Each dressing room door had a bright gold star painted on its outside. On one particular door, the name of the act currently occupying the room was papered beneath its gold star: The Great Bentley and his Talking...
1 A HEARTLESS CRIME Aberdeen. Friday, 2nd August 2013 DARKNESS FINALLY FELL and began to cool the effects of a sweltering day as a light breeze swept down a tranquil Sunnyside Road near the University of Aberdeen. The huge grey-stoned tenements that lined one side of the street hid a ghastly secret … Two streets away, a pair of police...
1 Anthony the Ant Gets Lost THE SUN WAS dropping heavily, huge and red, at the end of a summer’s day. Anthony was an ant, and Anthony was lost, very lost indeed. “Oh dear,” moaned Anthony, “The sun is disappearing, and the stars are coming out to twinkle, and I’m lost.” Anthony stopped walking, sat on a pebble,...
PROLOGUE ONCE UPON A … Hmm? What is that missing word? In the world way, way into the future, everyone has forgotten it! For this is a fairytale from the future and not from the past—although a Fairy of the Past does come in to it! In this future where Amy Ivystone lives, thick forests, lonely mountains and roaring rivers dominate...
1 THE NEO MIRROR Anil Choudhry knew that no moving parts and a relatively flat design meant escape from poverty. His determination—his obsession—had cost him everything. So here he was, all alone in his government sponsored work-unit applying his moulding machinery to the formula and materials that should produce a near as damn it flat section of mirror, two...
1 72 FRITH STREET THERE ONCE WAS a young girl, only six years old and very short for her age. She was the smallest girl in her school, and her name was Sally Murphy. She was an only child and lived with her father Martin Murphy. On the very day she was born, her mother died. Sally always asked, “Was...
1 MAGICAL BEGINNINGS “Mum, this is the end, isn’t it?” said seven-year-old Tammy, looking with her big sad green eyes at her mother. “The end of what?” asked her mother, who also had big green eyes, but her green eyes showed no signs of sadness, in fact, quite the opposite, her big green eyes showed signs of playful excitement. “The...
Foreword
Just to say I’ve written this story in British English, so there will be some minor differences in grammar, punctuation and the use of slang words and phrases when compared to other forms of English (such as American English).
Chapter 1. The Writer. Hello. I’m about to write a story. What’s it about? Not too sure yet because it’s only this morning started to flood into my head like water from a bath tap that someone’s turned on to the full. I can’t turn it off, so I had better get my act together.
One of the skills I love to attempt to employ is the creation of standout, original characters.
This is my first visit to homes to bring my books to people’s attention. I will probably hand deliver some web-cards (business-like cards that advertise my web page).
The basic complication with VAT is that because companies like Amazon would operate their sales from countries with the lowest VAT rates the EU was forced into changing the law so that companies would have to pay at the rate of the buyer’s country VAT.
The basic complication with VAT is that because companies like Amazon would operate their sales from countries with the lowest VAT rates the EU was forced into changing the law so that companies would have to pay at the rate of the buyer’s country VAT.
Just so you know, this article will end with my blurbs for my novel Pride and Prejudice and Superheroes. Before taking on blurbs, I’ll just mention loglines and tagline. There is definitely some slightly different understandings of these two structures, but one thing is agreed: both are different.
Welcome to Part 1 of my 5 part book cover design series. In this article I will be examining a graphic design fundamental subject in relation to book cover design; namely, basic colour use in book cover design.
Welcome to Part 2 of my book cover design series of articles. In this article I will be concerned with the basic components of a book cover.
Welcome to Part 3 of my book cover design series of articles. In this article I will be concentrating on archetypes in book cover design.
Welcome to Part 4 of my book cover design series. In this article I will further examine the fundamental aim of a book cover.
Welcome to Part 5 of my book cover design series. In this final article of the series I will be tackling the topic of poor choices in book cover design; some might be as cruel as to say “mistakes” in book cover design. Come on then, let’s get started.
In this series of articles, I will examine texts that we use on book covers. As stated in other articles, the main texts we use on book covers are: the Author Name, the Book Title, Series Title combined with Book Episode Title, any Taglines, any Logos and the back matter Book Blurb.
Welcome to Part 2 of my book cover text series. In this article we will look at more advanced techniques to present our book cover text. In my 5 part Book Cover Design series, Here we use the appearance of the text to literally resemble the nature of the book’s content.
Welcome to Part 3, the final part in this series, of my book cover text series. In this article we will look at Text Orientation and Combinations of Texts on our book cover text.
Welcome to Part 1 of my 3-part book cover copy style series. These 3 articles will deal with the emulation of bestselling book cover design styles. In this series I will show how a professional book cover can be achieved by taking examples of professional well-known covers.
Welcome to Part 2 of my book cover copy style series. In this article I will tackle the Dystopian genre. First let’s look at a collection of highly professional bestselling dystopian books.
Welcome to Part 3 of my series on book cover emulation styles. In this article I will tackle the Science Fiction genre. I will examine Isaac Asimov book covers.
Welcome to my two articles on book cover series (and collections) design. The idea here is that we are considering a predetermined series. For instance, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series all the books.
Welcome to PART 2 of my series of articles on book cover series (and collections) design. In this article I will show a method of creating a unique book cover template system for a book series.
Welcome to my articles on HOW TO CREATE AND DESIGN COMMON BOOK COVER IMAGES. In this article we will concentrate on astronomical bodies, planets being probably the most prominent.
