Book Cover Design Tips – The single biggest mistake you don’t want to make… A book cover gives your prospective reader their first insight into the story within. If it’s going to be suitable for them, and they will invest their time and money in your writing. That’s what they
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Top Ten Fantasy Tropes for Authors In my quest (pun intended) for fantasy genre work, I love digging around for details on what makes fantasy authors and artists tick. Fantasy has been shaped over hundreds of years from mythology spanning continents, through to works of fiction by CS Lewis and
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What is a hybrid author? Hybrid authors are writers who publish their work through both traditional publishing and self-publishing avenues. . This trend is great for the self-publishing community as it highlights a growing acceptance of self-publishing as a legitimate avenue for authors to maintain creative control and reach their
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Domain of the Deathless King – DnD art One of the holy grails of the fantasy artist is getting to work on Dungeons and Dragons art. Luckily for me, I was commissioned to illustrate five dynamic DnD art pieces for Archmage Press. The Kickstarter was a roaring success and was
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Celebrating 100 book covers! It may be late… but I wanted to celebrate reaching the lofty goal of illustrating 100 book covers. I hadn’t realised I’d met the goal a little while back, I think I’m clocking about 130 covers now… What have I learned from illustrating over 100 book
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