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  Timothy Bateson is now friends with Elizabeth Munro.

  • June 2, 2018
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  Elizabeth Munro liked Judith Rook's photo.

  

  This is only an interim design for my WIP cover. I enjoyed putting it together, but I'm not sure about the yellow font colour.

  • May 16, 2018

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    Elizabeth Munro I'd suggest instead of the yellow, using a colour on the opposite side of the colour wheel from the orange, such as blue. It would really pop and would balance and contrast nicely with all the orange.

    • May 16, 2018
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    Thomas Weaver The yellow for the author's name works all right (it is similar to the yellow-white of the headlights, so the eye is drawn there), but the yellow-and-black for the title and short description don't have enough contrast. Another option would be to change...  moreThe yellow for the author's name works all right (it is similar to the yellow-white of the headlights, so the eye is drawn there), but the yellow-and-black for the title and short description don't have enough contrast. Another option would be to change the fonts: a thicker font would have more contrast without having to change the color(s). When I look at this thumbnail of the cover, it's the subtitle that drops out, and I think even solid black in a heavier font might take care of a lot of that. If you make the orange of the background less intense -- lighter and a little bit less saturated -- the black will stand out rather well, I think, but the yellow may disappear at that point. The angled title looks odd to me; I wonder how that would look both larger and placed horizontally (or angled the other way so it matches the upper lines of the vehicle in the foreground).  less

    • May 16, 2018
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    Judith Rook Thank you, Elizabeth and Thomas. You clearly have better visual imaginations than my own. Excellent ideas, which I will apply to the design.

    • May 18, 2018
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  Elizabeth Munro commented on Judith Rook's photo.

  

  This is only an interim design for my WIP cover. I enjoyed putting it together, but I'm not sure about the yellow font colour.

  • May 16, 2018

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    Elizabeth Munro I'd suggest instead of the yellow, using a colour on the opposite side of the colour wheel from the orange, such as blue. It would really pop and would balance and contrast nicely with all the orange.

    • May 16, 2018
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    Thomas Weaver The yellow for the author's name works all right (it is similar to the yellow-white of the headlights, so the eye is drawn there), but the yellow-and-black for the title and short description don't have enough contrast. Another option would be to change...  moreThe yellow for the author's name works all right (it is similar to the yellow-white of the headlights, so the eye is drawn there), but the yellow-and-black for the title and short description don't have enough contrast. Another option would be to change the fonts: a thicker font would have more contrast without having to change the color(s). When I look at this thumbnail of the cover, it's the subtitle that drops out, and I think even solid black in a heavier font might take care of a lot of that. If you make the orange of the background less intense -- lighter and a little bit less saturated -- the black will stand out rather well, I think, but the yellow may disappear at that point. The angled title looks odd to me; I wonder how that would look both larger and placed horizontally (or angled the other way so it matches the upper lines of the vehicle in the foreground).  less

    • May 16, 2018
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    Judith Rook Thank you, Elizabeth and Thomas. You clearly have better visual imaginations than my own. Excellent ideas, which I will apply to the design.

    • May 18, 2018
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  Stephen Trolly is now friends with Elizabeth Munro.

  • May 14, 2018
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  Elizabeth Munro is now friends with Amy Lehman.

  • May 14, 2018
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  Elizabeth Munro joined the group The 7-7-7 Club

  • May 13, 2018
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  Elizabeth Munro joined the group Beta Readers: Science Fiction and Fantasy

  • May 13, 2018
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  Elizabeth Munro #amknitting #shouldbewriting

  

  #amknitting #shouldbewriting

  • May 13, 2018

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    Thomas Weaver Knitting is one of those repetitive-motion activities that are supposed to be good for helping the brain relax, which in turn is good for creativity.

    • May 14, 2018
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  Elizabeth Munro Outlining my June 1 Newsletter. Anyone have a free/99 cent deal going on that week I could include? SFF only, please.

  • May 12, 2018

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    Timothy Bateson I know how that goes with email newsletters. I'm still trying to get mine figured out. Drop me an email at timothy.bateson.author@gmail.com and I'll get you all the information.

    • May 12, 2018
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    Stephen Trolly My debut novel, Rising Vengeance, is going to be free for Kindle the first week of June. It's listed price is $.99

    • May 13, 2018
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    Elizabeth Munro @Stephen Trolly, can you send me a sample chapter, blurb, cover? liz (at) elizabeth munro (dot) ca

    • May 14, 2018
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    Stephen Trolly As soon as I have time tonight, I'll get that to you

    • May 14, 2018
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    Judith Rook This is not really a special deal for a purpose, but for the rest of May and all of June, my YA SciFi novella "First Steps for a Hero" is $1.00 on Smashwords http://geni.us/Hero2 and Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/First-Steps-Hero-Judith-Rook-ebook/dp/B01KUCVN6C

    • May 16, 2018
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  Elizabeth Munro #5ThingsAboutMyWIP
  1: Urban Fantasy
  2: At 42K
  3: A past his prime 70s anthem rock band singer falls from a 22nd story apartment and finds himself in the present day, hunting down a serial killer with the only person who can see him
  4: First in the...  more#5ThingsAboutMyWIP
  1: Urban Fantasy
  2: At 42K
  3: A past his prime 70s anthem rock band singer falls from a 22nd story apartment and finds himself in the present day, hunting down a serial killer with the only person who can see him
  4: First in the series? Haven't decided
  5: #ghosts #crime #cops #guitar #knitting #yepknitting  less

  • May 11, 2018

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    Judith Rook Is he still in the music scene? If so, he will have to cope with huge advances in technology,

    • May 16, 2018
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    Elizabeth Munro He didn't survive the fall back in 1984 so yes, finding himself in the present day allows me to have a lot of fun with things we have now that we didn't have then.

    • May 16, 2018
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  Elizabeth Munro Do you have a free series starter? Share your link here and find a new favourite read! (The book in which the author wipes out her own neighbourhood in a plane crash)

  

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    Elizabeth Munro Further to this, I've joined a "series starter" giveaway on Instafreebie if anyone else is interested https://www.instafreebie.com/groupgiveaway/view/d95bd2f01af185626ee53455ae30ca34

    • May 12, 2018
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  Elizabeth Munro I'm a blurb-first writer. If I can't motivate myself to read it, then I'm not going to get started writing it. And it help me keep a clear focus of where the book is heading.

  • May 10, 2018

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    Timothy Bateson I rarely manage to get my blurb written until at least the end of the first draft

    • May 11, 2018
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  Elizabeth Munro → Writing Goal support group!: My writing goal has always been 1000 words a day. I'm a spreadsheet kind of person so I have my word trackers for the past several years =) Currently, I'm reacquainting myself with a MS I haven't made much progress on since the fall.

  • May 10, 2018

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  Elizabeth Munro joined the group Writing Goal support group!

  • May 8, 2018
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  Elizabeth Munro Y'all going? If you haven't claimed your Book Bub author profile, you should! Now you can share book recommendations to people who follow you on Book Bub. And Book Bub will share your new releases with your followers. How cool is that?

  

  Book Bub Love Fest

  Author Self-Promotion is hard work! We need to work together to build readership. To that end I would like to create a love fest for BookBub authors. For...

  • May 5, 2018

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