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Nearing graduation and a new website
I have three days left of my publishing course. THREE. This is too few by at least several hundred; I've had an amazing year and met so many fantastic people at and through the course that I'm quite sad to be leaving. Who will provide me with Friday morning coffee and cakes now?
In pursuit of employment and infamy, I've put together a small website ( Read more... ) -
Colours? NO COLOURS.
As part of my publishing course I've been working on a design scrapbook that picks at elements of book design: Bibliosection.
I haven't actually updated it since the assignment proper finished, but I'm sure I will sometime! It was great fun to put together, and I really enjoyed trying to figure out what does and doesn't make a book work for me as a ( Read more... ) -
NZ YA in 2011
One of my projects for the publishing course I'm doing involves looking into book design, and I want to do a small module on NZ YA to accompany it - particularly after reading blog posts like Kate Hart's. Hart was working from a pool of over 600 covers. After some digging around on Wheelers, I have found ... 25. Ahh, yes, this will be a far less ( Read more... ) -
A different take on the changeling story
From Wikipedia:
"One belief is that trolls thought that being raised by humans was something very classy..."
Hah!
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Question about NZ schools
Does anyone know if it's frowned upon for small publishers to directly contact primary schools (' librarians) about purchasing copies of their books? I feel like it can't be illegal, though whether it would have any result is another question ...
