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What’s in a name?
I am approaching the final chapters of the first draft of the novel that I am currently writing and I have a problem. It’s something that’s been niggling away at me for weeks to develop into an issue.… more →
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Terrible Book Covers 11: Holy Christ-in-a-Poncho!
wrote 1 week ago: Apparently even Nobel prize-winners can have awkward book covers. He looks like a confused David Cro … more →
Terrible Book Covers 7: That Lovely Miss Violet
wrote 1 week ago: Another Bonnie Beckeman watercolor cover for micro-vanity publisher AG Press. It Happens at Miss VIo … more →
Picture Perfect
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wrote 1 month ago: A dear friend of mine works for Young Life. YL had a seminar about how social media was making peopl … more →
Wednesday women ... an illustrator
wrote 1 month ago: I came across Jan’s Journal by Ronald Duncan yesterday morning; it needed a slight repair to t … more →
Dust Jacket Logic: It Exists
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wrote 1 month ago: Many novices to book collecting don’t get dust jackets. How can a single piece of paper make the dif … more →
Leroy Neiman
wrote 1 month ago: It is an unusual path, to say the least, from Playboy magazine to golf. Leroy Neiman, who died last … more →
Book Jackets
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wrote 2 months ago: I have a some what odd habit of taking the book jackets off of my books once I’ve purchased th … more →
What's in a name?
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wrote 2 months ago: I am approaching the final chapters of the first draft of the novel that I am currently writing and … more →
The Greatest Literary Controversy Of The Last Century
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wrote 3 months ago: Today’s topic is one that I’m almost scared to even broach on this blog. It’s a to … more →
What we can learn from 19th–20th century dust jackets in 21st century Communication Design
wrote 5 months ago: The Journal of Decorative Magazine and Propaganda Arts 1988 I just finished reading a great informat … more →
In all their full-size glory
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wrote 5 months ago: That’s one small step for English literature, one giant leap for my self-publishing. Actually … more →
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
wrote 6 months ago: A couple of days ago I posted that I had run into problems with my e-book covers and that I t … more →
A ha'porth of tar.
wrote 6 months ago: Another day, another…cloud. But wait. Another cloud another silver lining – perhaps. Over the … more →
Mediaeval manuscripts used as dust jackets
wrote 7 months ago: Reblogged from King Harold Day: We have found a really interesting story about how mediaeval manuscr … more →
Stripped Naked
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wrote 7 months ago: I always take off the dust jacket before reading a hardcover book. If not it bothers me when … more →
Creating an e-book cover
wrote 7 months ago: I’m keen to do everything myself that’s involved in my foray into self-publishing. That … more →
Friday Snapshot ... Val Biro
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wrote 7 months ago: During a recent exhibition here at Special Collections of items from Westerby Press; some dust jacke … more →
Dust Jacket Cover Art Unveiling!
wrote 9 months ago: Hi everyone, I just uploaded a cover image on the Goodreads page. Here’s a large-size preview … more →
Friday's Library snapshot ...
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wrote 10 months ago: These pictures were taken at a small exhibition in the foyer here at Special Collections. The entra … more →
