A couple of people had asked, and instead of writing long emails, I'll summarize my experience so far here. (Easier for me, I admit.)

I am now finishing my first month of intermittent fasting (5:2). Essentially, I pick two days a week and don't eat on those days.

That's a generalization. I have been consuming <500 calories those days, generally in ( Read more... )

I'm pulling my older covers from the place where they're currently listed, and may stick them on a page on my website.  (This is the YA-style set of girl covers.)


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...but I'm still not happy with the fonts I've got here. Meh.


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For anyone who doesn't know me elsewhere, my currently napping dog had a toe amputated earlier this week, throwing me into full-time dog-nurse mode. I've had very little sleep and am rather stressed and exhausted.  (The other dog is being surprisingly good through all this, although she's licking her foot, which I need to get her to stop ( Read more... )

Today I took my first stab at a Romance cover:

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Yesterday Canva was down for much of the day, so I had to work concepts in Paint.net.  Not as easy to use for some things.  I came up with this idea:

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So the first of the new covers is going up to the store. I worked on it last week on Canva, but this week switched over to PS to finish it up ( Read more... )

I'm getting back now into book cover design, and I'm going to be tracking that on this page.  This spring I'm working on individual covers (as opposed to the 'series set' I did last fall.)

Today I started with one photo, and tried it out two different ways (because I often change my mind mid-stream.

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Originally published at J. Kathleen Cheney. You can comment here or there.

Once of the decisions writers make when they’re indie publishing is whether to hire someone else to edit their work. All too often these days I run across an ebook that could have absolutely used another set of eyes on it, and even though Spell Check does a great job catching ( Read more... )

Originally published at J. Kathleen Cheney. You can comment here or there.

In the last year or so as I’ve been switching onto a more indie-focused writing track, I have read COPIOUS amounts of advice.


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