What did you blog about today?

The answer is that unless you have a backlog, it's hard for most people who are not Enid Blyton to be much more often than annual. With Self Publishing, I think, momentum is important, so perhaps interleave larger and faster projects to have stuff to fill the gaps?

The answer partly depends on if you have a productive editor and good beta readers allowing you more time to write and your natural productivity.
 
Juliana, nice piece and very well-timed for me as I'm struggling to decide what approach to take for my trilogy (I want the covers to have a consistent style).

Right now it's between styles 2 and 3, the character hook and the symbol.

I'm always indecisive about covers (except the first Sir Edric one, but that's because he's the total centre of the story so that was easy). Trilogy's got a large number of POV characters with different weight to each from book-to-book. Hmph.
 
Juliana said:
Sounds very productive, Pam! Well done. :)

Here's a slightly tongue-in-cheek and not very serious blog post on Fantasy book covers...
Book Cover Sunday: Fantasy Cover Art
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Great post Juliana, and fitting for us right now! I've been spending a lot of time looking at covers online, at the library and at the bookstore.

It is hard to know which direction to go sometimes.

I love the sweeping epic of Whelan's work, but also have a soft spot for that hooded assassin, or wizard. Then there is something nice about the simplicity of a symbol done right.
 
I know what you mean, Ratsy. Another advantage of stand-alones is that you only have to pick one cover, not multiple with a consistent style.
 
Been waiting for something like this from you Jo, great post really enjoyed reading it and picking up some neat ideas :)

BTW loved the 'not the operating theatre' line :D
 
Yeah, i was going to tag you on it somehow, then forgot! That book was really good. Loved the sand, and the almost slow tension building around it...and Luker and his girl from NYC were such unique characters. And any book that starts with a funeral where the family stab their loved one through the heart, is a keeper :)
 
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