[FM Discuss] Cover design for "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!"

[James Simmons]

This morning I tried to send a cover image for my book "Make Your Own
Sugar Activities!" to the list.  It got bounced because the attachment
size was too large.  I then uploaded the two versions I made of the
image to my Picasa account and shared it with the list.  I think that
worked.  If it didn't, let me know and also let me know how I can get
the image to you.

I liked the cover image I made enough to put it in the Introduction to
the book.  As a result the Introduction needs to be re-published.

Futura fonts on a white background works for me for the Lulu cover.  I
would want it to appear consistent with the rest of the books.

My original plan was to have a photo of a young girl programming on
the cover.  I gave up on this when I actually found a girl willing to
pose for the cover and was forced to think through how to get that
photo.  I'm not a good enough photographer to do it.  The new image
combines three screenshots from the book.

If you need anything else from me let me know.  Thanks,

James Simmons



>> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:04:04 +0100
>> From: Cara Bell-Jones <carabelljones at googlemail.com>
>> To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
>> Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Please publish "Making Sugar Activities" and
>> ? ? ? ?add a link to the "Read" page
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>> Hi James,
>>
>> maybe put in a kind of foreword saying you saw the need for the manual &
>> initiated the project, you wrote the basis for chapters on a, b & c ?and
>> that you hope that chapters on x, y and z will also be covered in time.
>> Then it serves as an invitation to participate, not as a scarecrow ;)
>>
>> with the covers, so far we've kept them ultra simple, with bold futura
>> fonts and clean bold icons on white background - but this doesn't always
>> have to be the case (see the bookstore on the right of the READ page for
>> existing examples: http://en.flossmanuals.net/)
>>
>> re: putting a photo of someone specific on cover, it could make others
>> feel like the book is only for teens? it might narrow the audience?
>>
>> also lulu lets you use full colour on covers, size is 'comic book'
>> 6.625" x 10.25" - the spine size depends on the number of pages.
>>
>> best,
>> cara