I've decided that I'll try and post every night this month (starting 2 nights ago) with something that relates to the fight against Publish America over at the AW boards. And maybe some personal stuff too.
The Atlanta Nights book that brought me to AW has spawned a thread over there where people have posted their cover art concepts. I volunteered to help narrow the field to 10 so Jenna Glatzer, the site owner can post a poll and we can all vote for the winner. Jenna will choose her ten and I've sent her mine. Somehow from that we'll come up with a final list.
UPDATE: The finalists are chosen and the poll is up! I'm not sure if you have to be registered to vote but you can scroll below the poll to see links to all the covers.
It was so hard choosing my 10! I started with 20 and really had to do some soul searching to narrow that down. The thing that helped was to copy the graphics into a word doc, resize them to thumbnails and look at them as a group over and over and over...well you get the idea.
Finally got my short list over to Jenna just a little while ago. Good luck to all the finalists.
I've made a new online friend recently and I can't wait to read her book. (You know who you are but I won't share your identity unless you give me the ok) I've also ordered Jenna's book Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer. Even if you're not interested in becoming a freelance writer, go read the page I linked because its damn clever and then the rest of the site; it's interesting and fun to read!
"Memphis Ed" Horrell has a radio show about customer service. Last week he featured Ed Williams and 'changling'. Ed is an author advocate and 'changling' has a book with PA but he's one of the many who is trying to get his rights back. The program is available online. The interview with Ed Williams (changling calls in) is towards the end but the whole show is great listening.
This weekend Ed Horrell is interviewing Jenna. Show starts at noon central and runs for 2 hours you can listen live online
Posted by Dawno at May 6, 2005 11:01 PMI decided to join the board over there at AW. It's too late to start wandering around much, but I am registered as "wordwrite".
I said you referred me, but I am half sure I gave out the wrong name,I said dawno.
I do have to admit to being intimidated a bit, my spelling and grammar I think have gone a little by the wayside lately, so I may lurk a little and get a "feel" about the place. I don't want to alienate people by my lack of English skills or percieved lack thereof.
But thanks for sharing the link.
I have a new LJ that's under the name of "wordwrite" , by the way.
Its so cool you've joined AW! Don't worry about the speeeling and grammer :-) It's really a great group there and much more supportive than nitpicky.
Posted by: Dawno at May 8, 2005 08:50 AM