[FM Discuss] Please publish "Making Sugar Activities" and add a link to the "Read" page

[Cara Bell-Jones]

Hi James,

I love your extra chapter, you should definitely add it, especially 
after all the work you have done.
and I look forward to seeing your cover :) email the list when you feel 
it is ready for lulu, and I can put it in the on line book store (but 
remember you can use as many colours as you like for the front/back/spine).

all the best and thanks,
cara


James Simmons wrote:
> Cara,
> 
> Last night I put together an "About The Authors" chapter with my own
> bio.  I didn't add it to the Table of Contents yet, and I may not.
> The book already has an Introduction that I'm reasonably happy with.
> 
> The idea of the cover picture was to sell the idea that older kids
> could write their own Sugar Activities.  I like the idea of
> posterizing the picture (kind of like the effect of the famous Obama
> poster).  This would reduce the number of colors needed for the cover
> and make the kid less identifyable.  Maybe shoot the kid over the
> shoulder from behind while she works on a PC with sugar-emulator
> running.
> 
> The older kids are the ones I most want to reach, followed by
> teachers, then everyone else.  There are only two books on this
> subject in existence, so I can't imagine someone not reading the book
> because they didn't like the cover image.  On the other hand if it
> looks like a book for teens then teens might check it out.
> 
> In any case, I have nobody to photograph at the moment and the book
> isn't ready for Lulu yet.
> 
> 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
>>
>> James Simmons wrote:
>>> Cara,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your assistance.
>>>
>>> The idea about having an authors page is not bad.  Unfortunately, so
>>> far I'm the only author.  If it looks like more authors will join up
>>> this could be a good idea.  I'm a little concerned that if I blow my
>>> own horn too much in the book that will prevent other authors from
>>> joining later.
>>>
>>> I like the idea of this book being available on Lulu -- eventually.
>>> The book isn't ready for that yet.  If you could point me to
>>> information on creating a cover I would be interested.  If I just need
>>> a cover image what would be the constraints on size, colors used, etc?
>>>  What I'd like for the cover would be a photo, maybe posterized, of an
>>> older child working on programming something.  I may have to pay a kid
>>> to pose for it.
>>>
>>> Thanks again.
>>>
>>> James Simmons
>