Finished A Christmas Carol today and ordered my proof copy through Lulu. I ended up completely redoing the crutches from scratch, since I’d learned a lot about Blender mesh modelling since I first made them, and I knew I could do much better. I also replaced the back cover image with one Rikker found on Flickr (“ice-blue”, taken by mike nl).
Here’s what it looked like before:
And here’s what it looks like now:
Since the book turned out to be only 101 pages, the spine is accordingly thin. In the future I’ll probably try to make my books at least 150 pages so the spines won’t be intolerably skinny. :) Oh, the orange lines aren’t actually on the book; they’re just there so you can see where the spine is. Once my proof copy arrives (which should be within a week or so) and all is well, I’ll announce the book’s availability.
In other news, I’ll finish proofing Phantastes by the end of this week and have it available soon as well. Before too long I’ll have an RSS feed up for Riverglen Press new releases, by the way.
[tags]A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Dickens, Christmas, literature, classics, Riverglen Press, Blender, Flickr[/tags]
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