FOR WRITERS: Imagining Your Cover
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: When do you start thinking about cover imagery? Is it something that percolates while you write? Are some images … Read more
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FOR READERS: Telling the Cover By the Book
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: Have you ever had that a-ha moment when reading a book, when the cover image suddenly makes sense? “Oh, it’s from … Read more
FOR READERS: My Fave Covers
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Ryane Chatman: Readers, share your favorite queer spec fic covers from the last year. Writers: This is a reader chat – you … Read more
FOR WRITERS: Stock Photo Sites
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Alicia Nordwell: Share your favorite stock websites or font websites – for authors who like to add images to their blogs/promo posts/make … Read more
FOR WRITERS: Self Pub Covers
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer SA Collins: For the self-pubbers: How do you deal with the evolution/creation of your book covers? Do you hire an external designer … Read more
FOR WRITERS: Cover Continuity
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Richard Wood: I just noted a series in which the covers for the second and third books in the series both feature … Read more
FOR READERS: What I Don’t Like In a Cover
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Alexis Woods: What visual on a cover might turn you off to reading a book? Maybe it’s a cover model who has … Read more
FOR WRITERS: Finding a Cover Artist
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Kari Trenten: Cover artists. Do you have a choice in this for your books? If so, where do look for a good … Read more
Seeing the Future
I’ve been having a lot of fun collecting digital scans of old pulp magazine covers. It’s great killing time on the Facebook group, Space Opera Pulp, where several thousand other … Read more
FOR READERS: What Grabs You?
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Denise Dechene: Everyone has their favorite authors,books and tropes. What makes you pick up a book by a new author or try … Read more