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Saturday, November 8, 2014

New book cover - Aarrghh!!


I really love the original yellow and red cover on DARK LADY'S STONE with Loriano playing to the Stone with the image of the Lady. Many people have commented favorably on it, but many others said it wasn't a good cover and would turn readers off.
So I finally got a new one to see what will happen and went to upload it to Create Space. It was endless frustration! I think The Gods are firmly against that new cover! Or maybe it's my resistance to change. First I couldn’t figure out where, on Create Space’s setup/ cover screen to input the new file. So I phoned them, and their representative quickly pointed it out. (Why I hadn’t seen that in the five times I’d looked???) So I hit “Upload cover." “Browse.” And I got a message to update Adobe on my browser. I don’t WANT Adobe on my Safari! Why did I get Firefox & Chrome except to have a browser with Adobe? And why do I need Adobe to upload a .PDF anyway? I kept hitting "Later" and "No." Create Space wouldn’t let me proceed. Update Adobe or else!
Back to Square 0. Open Firefox. Log into CS again. Find Cover Setup. Hit Browse. Choose File. I choose the file. Hit upload. And it starts loading—Ta-Da! Two-thirds of the way through a message flashes: Upgrade Firefox. Screw it! I hit Later. And thank the gods my cover file keeps loading. When it finally finishes it looks just like the old cover. I go back to my folder, double-check my artwork files—and it is the old cover!! And furthermore CS is reviewing my submission and I can’t make further changes until they finish. 
Aarrghh!



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2 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 25, 2014 at 1:04 PM

    I like the second cover. The aurora in the background leads me to think it's near the Arctic maybe Norway, Iceland, the Orkney Islands or the Faroes. I think the title should be bigger and easier to read with more contrast. PDF is Adobe so you'll have to go with their software one way or another.

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  2. Christie MaurerNovember 25, 2014 at 4:43 PM

    Thanks for your comments. You, like a goodly number of people, prefer the second cover. Yes, the book is set in a sub-arctic, heavily forested region, like northern Canada during the summer with the very long days. I do like the aurora in the sky.
    Actually Preview reads .PDFs nicely. I use Firefox or Chrome Browsers for things that require Adobe.
    I have just finished proofing the book (again) and plan to to upload it in the morning.

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