A Partial Success

My intention is to create a set of books about Irene Mawer.  The first will be the biography, and the second will be a collection of press cuttings.

The second one has actually been more or less finished for several months and I just couldn’t wait any longer to see it.  So I have printed off a single copy of what I am calling the protoype.

I am pleased with it, but there is still a lot of work to do on it.  My friend has pointed out that the spacing between the lines and the paragraphs is too big – and she is right.  Also, I was disappointed with the colour of the cover, it is not as bright as I had imagined it.  I have looked into it, and I now realise that the cover that I made on Canva uses RGB – which are colours for digital devices (ie, e-books), and I have to somehow convert this to CMYK.

I was especially keen to see how the photographs worked out.  They were sadly lacking.  I need people to be able to read the words on the newspaper clippings – but the resolution is too low.  So I have to learn about dpi’s and MB’s.  Good grief!

Everyone always says that writing your own book is easy – they don’t tell you that if you want to do it well, it is darned hard work!