How to Create a Great Title and Eye-Catching Cover
A few decades ago, most book covers were a solid color with a standard font and a title that almost always told you nothing about what was inside if you didn’t already know. Those days are long gone. Today, we judge books by their covers in a nanosecond, so your cover not only has to stand-out as a thumbnail image, it has to hold a potential reader’s attention for five seconds or more, and have a title that is alluring and able to be listed on page one in Amazon’s search engine.
That’s a lot to cram into one image and three to ten words
So, how do you do it?
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Finding Your Book in a Foreign Language
It’s always fun to find your book translated into a language you don’t speak, even a little bit. Leaping Lemmings has been translated into German (my great-grandparents were fluent) and … Continue reading
Schenectady Today Interview: Leaping Lemmings
Host Ann Parillo asks me about my picture book Leaping Lemmings!, as well as lemmings themselves, on Schenectady Today. Check out the artwork, the story behind the book, and some … Continue reading
Leaping Lemmings (Officially) Released Today
Larry and company make the leap into bookstores! Regular readers of this blog have heard about Leaping Lemmings! for months now. This brightly colored picture book with a cogent message … Continue reading
Leaping Lemmings – Cover Reveal
Here it is at long last — the final cover for my first picture book, Leaping Lemmings! I won’t go into all the details that took this book … Continue reading
Book Trailers
Announcing the release of Leaping Lemmings! September 6, 2016! Just because it looks very cool: Leaping Lemmings! in Mandarin. Announcing the release of Pete Seeger, The People’s Singer … Continue reading
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