{"id":2927,"date":"2007-03-31T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:30:38","slug":"cover-art-makes-such-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/03\/31\/cover-art-makes-such-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art Makes Such a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/Rg6f8C2jpXI\/AAAAAAAAACw\/M6K-23szpUs\/s1600-h\/EMPEROR-titledb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/EMPEROR-titledb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048148086235571570\" \/><\/a>Last year I tried selling one of my novels, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.io.com\/~hmelton\/stories\/0\/W0001.html\">Emperor Dad<\/a>, as an ebook off my website.  While I had a few buyers, I was not satisfied.  It needed cover art and I asked around for someone who could do it.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Cupp pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/104-4107112-0671102?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;search-type=ss&#038;index=books&#038;field-author=Wes%20Hartman\">Wes Hartman<\/a> who was working for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antarctic-press.com\/\">Antarctic Press<\/a>.  With a few emails exchanged, he worked me in.  The end result of numerous emailed prototypes and a hangup in getting the final work sent to me while I was off in California makes a big difference.  I reworked the formatting of the ebooks to include the cover art and notified everyone who bought it so that they can get a free upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Now I need to see just how many ways I can use this.  Advertising flyers, bookmarks, posters.  Hmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I tried selling one of my novels, Emperor Dad, as an ebook off my website. While I had a few buyers, I was not satisfied. It needed cover art and I asked around for someone who could do it. Scott Cupp pointed me to Wes Hartman who was working for Antarctic Press. With&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2007\/03\/31\/cover-art-makes-such-difference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cover Art Makes Such a Difference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/EMPEROR-titledb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Ld","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}