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Designer Files: Covering City of Glass

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series The Publisher Series

Designing a new cover is fraught with false starts, preconceptions, and the reality of the stock photography you can afford. I decided I wanted to riff off the theme begun with the original flash fiction piece, but that the old cover was not going to cut it for a new fleshed-out serial.

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Designer Files: Covering The Creative Life

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series The Publisher Series

So I reworked my series pages today and how they worked with my theme. I want to do more, but alas! I haven't solved PHP coding yet. In the meantime, every post in a series now displays the series icon, which was formerly relegated to the sidebar. Wait a second. Hold that thought. It what?!

Not all of my series icons made awesome book covers, to put it mildly, and the icon for The Creative Life was certainly not going to cut it as a book cover.

Who I Am icon by photoshopfreak
icon by photoshopfreak

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