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ana said: Much easier on the eye, though I think I'd like to see a figure in the landscape.
There is a little sailboat on the back cover. I'm not clever enough to put in a figure. This was a photograph I took and then fiddled with to make it slightly more unusual.
With my other paperbacks, Amazon allows you to see the back cover, too. Maybe that will come in time.
Yes, Stan, you can't just let your books hibernate - you've got to get them out there. I got Hubby to do some technological wizardry last night and my email signature now has hyperlinks to my author page, facebook and twitter sites and underneath is a row of all my book covers, all hyperlinked to their Amazon pages. Can you add something to your email signature for your books?
Yes, those colours seem to go with the territory, Neph! My shelves are much the same.
I just looked at the cover of one of hubby's books ('It's Our Turn to Eat' by Michela Wrong) on the bedside cabinet. It's appropriate for the subject matter, but aesthetically I don't like it. I didn't like the covers of the Marina Lewycka books (tractors/caravans) either.
I've been reading some of the older ones to my mum, just to pass the time when I visit as conversation is long gone.
I don't like it when there has been a TV or film adaptation and the actors appear on the front, especially when the actors look nothing like the character description in the books.
Me too! Hehe! But I had to get it as it was book group book last month, and oh, my, what a dreary story it is. She openly admits she got back at her ex-partner and one of the other characters, not a nice man, is her father, so it may be that her story was besieged by wanting to take it out on them, but really it would be hard to find anyone in that book to like. You need a protagonist you like to enjoy a book i think.
I've bought yours, Nell, hope it arrives before i go...
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For some reason, it's not showing on my Author Page.
I hate computers.
I just tried ordering myself a copy!
There is a little sailboat on the back cover. I'm not clever enough to put in a figure. This was a photograph I took and then fiddled with to make it slightly more unusual.
With my other paperbacks, Amazon allows you to see the back cover, too. Maybe that will come in time.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Bites-Helen-Laycock/dp/1499170246/ref=la_B006PGFVL6_1_4_bnp_1_pap?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398273296&sr=1-4
But I don't know where my little sailing ship has gone.
The kindle version's still not there (only the old version).
*sighs*
Another of my books has recently become available as an Ebook & Kindle.
An 'Amazon version', Stan? Do you mean kindle?
Great about your books. It's good to be able to offer different versions.
I am planing to send an update on my books to friends and others about my books especially to encourage sales of the e/Kindle versions.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Bites-Helen-Laycock-ebook/dp/B00JTIQIRS/ref=la_B006PGFVL6_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398338068&sr=1-9
Yes, Stan, you can't just let your books hibernate - you've got to get them out there. I got Hubby to do some technological wizardry last night and my email signature now has hyperlinks to my author page, facebook and twitter sites and underneath is a row of all my book covers, all hyperlinked to their Amazon pages. Can you add something to your email signature for your books?
Would never even consider buying a book that was pink or pastel.
I just looked at the cover of one of hubby's books ('It's Our Turn to Eat' by Michela Wrong) on the bedside cabinet. It's appropriate for the subject matter, but aesthetically I don't like it. I didn't like the covers of the Marina Lewycka books (tractors/caravans) either.
I go for subtlety too. I do judge books by their covers, can't help it.
I don't like covers that depict characters in detail - I want them to be created in my imagination.
*swoons*
I don't like it when there has been a TV or film adaptation and the actors appear on the front, especially when the actors look nothing like the character description in the books.
Remembering when I saw "Casual Vacancy" on the bookshelves I hated the cover and wouldn't have bought it, so covers do matter.
Ditto!
I've bought yours, Nell, hope it arrives before i go...