by Tor Roxburgh | May 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
I was in Melbourne today. Had lunch with a friend who works in a major publishing house. We didn’t really talk about publishing, but the Borders demise was mentioned.On the way home, I went to Borders in Highpoint. I bought $502.40 worth of books for $50.24. It...
by Tor Roxburgh | May 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Design by CommitteeThe last two weeks have been filled with some amazing and fortuitous experiences. I drove to Castlemaine the week before last and stumbled across a really good book designer, Josh Durham of Design by Committee, who has agreed to design some...
by Tor Roxburgh | May 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
‘What’s it about?’ Last post, I wrote about drafting a back cover blurb for my forthcoming fantasy novel, The Light Heart of Stone. The funny thing about back cover blurbs is that they tend to talk up a couple of opening incidents in the book, but...
by Tor Roxburgh | May 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
I have been talking about writing the back cover blurb for my forthcoming fantasy novel, The Light Heart of Stone, for a number of weeks now – talking and not writing. There are some writing tasks that writers tend to avoid: writing synopses, writing publishing...
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