Archive: Riverglen Press category
I'm pleased to announce that Dickens' A Christmas Carol is now available for download and purchase:
I'll try to finish up Phantastes soon, and I'm also going to try to redesign the site (and add an RSS feed) before ...
I'm thinking about making Riverglen Press a PDF-only gig. Lulu's good, to be sure, but I like having more control over the output -- with Lulu my choices are quite limited, and it's hard to get the desired result. (Mainly with the covers; the body has generally been ...
My proof copy of A Christmas Carol arrived today, accompanied by a few problems:
Problem #1: Lulu doesn't like InDesign's transparency, as you can see from the back cover (it should be roughly the same red as the front cover). The solution: I opened ...
Out of curiosity, how many of you have read entire books online? (Etexts, eBooks, whatever you want to call them.) Where? Project Gutenberg? Elsewhere? Did you read them in your web browser, or in a separate etext-reading app, or on a handheld device of some ...
First, a blast from the past: this week a year ago I was blogging about my favorite things, designing my first book, and posting my first (and only) vlog entry.
And now we return to our regularly scheduled programming. I suppose this is somewhat regularly scheduled, but ...
Just now I was browsing through the children's classics section of the bookstore, the titles catching my eye with delight as memories of childhood swept over me. There were some editions that looked rather nice until I opened them up. Pathetic typography. Zero margins, or Times New ...
Spent a good chunk of time today working on A Christmas Carol, redoing the cover art in Blender. While these crutches aren't anything spectacular, they're a whole lot better than what I had before (as you can see from the before and after if you follow the link). ...
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 ...
Just a quick update. I finished setting the text of A Christmas Carol a few minutes ago, so all that's left now is the cover -- specifically the front image (the crutches) and deciding what to put on the back cover. It'd be nice to do a full ...
A few scattered thoughts:
1. To actively develop my photography skills, I'm going to choose a weekly theme (which will end up as a set in Flickr) and make an effort to find photo opps that fit. Things like "hope," "yellow," and "triangle," for example. This week the theme ...
