Dear Blog Friends, Well, I’ve been a busy woman this weekend. I got two new stories up and published on Smashwords. The link is here. These are much funnier than the last pairings of short stories. Both of these humorous fantasy short stories involve cats. The A side, “Mean Little Kitty” is available for the …
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Jun 01
Cover Art: “Voice Like a Cello” and “Bear Country”
Here’s the cover for my second pairing of short stories. I made it bigger on this, since it’s my art blog and this site is all about the art. Finding an interesting photo to work from was the easy part. I do a lot of gardening and have zillions of photos of my plants. This …
May 23
Seeing Things, Part 8: Formatting
Dear Blog Friends, One of the things I read, when I first started this journey into the wilds of epublishing (what feels like such a long, long time ago) was that formatting a book was one of those difficult and time-consuming things best done by a professional. Now maybe I’m speaking too soon, but after …
May 22
“Voice Like a Cello” and “Bear Country”
Dear Blog Friends; Since last week’s pairing of short stories was so successful, I decided to put up another pair. Making the cover art was a lot easier this time. I guess practice makes perfect with anything, even new software. I was originally going to pair “Voice Like a Cello” with another short story I …
May 17
Cover Art: Emily’s Fifth Birthday
I’ve been working on using Gimp to make cover art for a pair of my short stories that I intend to publish soon. I’ve never used Gimp or Photoshop before, but I had a copy of Gimp that I downloaded when a friend raved about how much she loved it. I found it quite difficult …