Bits of Things
(This is an image from a Tiger note card.)
Be wrapped up in music and rainbows!
quote: Think of
all the writers and all the books, poems, essays, articles, song lyrics, and so
on that have changed your life. What if these authors had given up? How much
smaller your life would be then. Roseanne Bane
superstition:
Drop two acorns into a bowl of water, if they float, our relationship is safe;
if not, your relationship is sunk.
Every day omen:
twigs. (After writing this I found a tiny forked twig on my car. Ha-ha,
Universe!) A forked twig in your path, you know what that means...a which-way-do-you-go
decision. A straight twig, you go straight, unless it crosses you, which means
stop; or points to one fork or another, whereat you go in the direction of the
point. In life or in your walk, or in your decisions.
gemstone: Use a
garnet or garnets to keep away nightmares. Yeah, I know you can use a dream
catcher, but that worked too well for me, I kept dreaming that my dreams kept
getting caught in the net, so I had to take mine down! I need! my dreams, even
the not so wonderful ones to keep me on my own right path.
tidbit: Over 90%
of the people in the Hall of Fame are Aquarians or have Aquarius rising. Yay,
Aquarians!
Sara, The Artist:
I put about 6-7
illustrations in my print books. In a series, I try to add 2 new pictures per
book. Usually the pictures are portraits of characters. (Here is a photo of me
in front of my wall of character portraits. the wall I sit facing when I
write.)
Usually I rerun
the main characters-thought sometimes they get new portraits. I want to do a
new portrait of Sazzy, since she has some fun new gowns magicked for her by the
Wild Fates.
E-books get less
art, but I put one photo of me in and, usually a bon mot. I'm hoping to add
some more art once I get comfortable doing e-books and can figure out how any
pieces of art I can put in before I reach the maximum file size...
Here are a few
new illustrations from the Byran Daggers series, because that is next up in the
print-the-book zone.
In Case You
Wondered: Large-type book used to be just enlarged from the pages that went to
the printer--meaning the whole book was bigger. Hey, consider 'Gone With The Wind'
as a large print book...and the wheelbarrow you'd need to carry it around in...
Now the books are
reset (easy enough to change the font size in the computer) and the book size
stays the same--and often the same length. Why? Because the typesetter will
tweak the leading (space between the lines) and the margins to get the story to
fit in the least amount of pages.
Larger publishers
may also use thinner paper for large-print books, keeping the book at a
manageable size. But the large-print books contain all the original story--or
they would say: abridged.
Tiger print books
are available in large print, but are printed in 12 point type (an easily
readable size) anyway. To compare, trade paperbacks often use 10 point type...but
a few I've seen in excruciatingly small type. I think one must have been 5
point or maybe 4. (One of those thousand page tomes, even with the tiny type...)
Of course with
your handy e-reader, you can have any size type you want any time...
Sara, The Writer:
I am still slogging through Byran’s last book. It seems to keep expanding as I
write with things that must not be missed, as this is the final book in the
series, a last chance to tie everything up. I am at 300 pages…
I am working on
getting ‘Wishing’ into ebook form. That is just tedious checking to make sure
the word processing program didn’t add some formatting when I wasn’t looking…or
take some out…
Posts I enjoyed
this week: Janice Hardy is doing a great month of revision blogs, giving you 31
one steps to a marvelously polished book. Not that I could keep up... Her URL
is:
Merry April 1,
All Fool's Day. You can play tricks till noon. Fool's Day is ruled over by the
Norse God Loki, a shapechanger and prankster. May all those tricks make your
day brighter.
