#WordWeavers 11.17 — Do you get book cover ideas while you write, and have you ever used those?
I commissioned two covers for the serial. Each came directly from the text in the story. I even shared tracts from the draft with the artist. I'm placing the artwork as an illustration right beside the text that inspired it, not just on the cover.
I've always visualized covers from what I'm writing, but when you conventionally publish, the cover is advertising for the publisher. I gave my ideas once, and what I got didn't come close.
Time to tap those toes! Join George Jetson and me for your Saturday night spin session (and recording of 'your daily soundtrack' post).
Live and in full effect 7pm to 10pm (pst) tonight. LP #CoverArt in a thread below this post. Big Love to the Mastodon Massive, going on a full year of posting here and leaving the bird behind!
If you're into metal of the brutal death variety, the new album 'Upper Triassic Slamcataclysm' released by Blastocystia just a few days ago is epically good, and will likely be on my 'favorite albums of 2023' list.
Way back in the 1950s, there were people in America banning books and censoring comic books to keep children safe. That was what life was like in the middle of the last century. 🧐
Very Objectionable: Supernatural & "Sexy Implications" of Ghost Comics
Early 1950s Fiction House series Ghost Comics rivals even EC Comics for horror, suspense, and adult situations in the pre-Code comics era.
In June 1953, an organization calling itself The Committee on Evaluation of Comic Books, which claimed to have 84 "trained reviewers", evaluated 418 comic book titles which were then available on the newsstands of America. These reviewers placed the output of American comic book publishers into one of four categories: no objection, some objection, objectionable, and very objectionable. This evaluation subsequently became a part of the 1954 Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency during the mid-1950s moral panic against comic books.
If yes, we have something for you! The next #NeoFinder version will be able to catalog metadata of these audio files, including #ID3 tags with #CoverArt, #Lyrics, and more.
High-power lasers at the US National Ignition Facility compress iron to explore the conditions prevailing in the core of an hypothetical pure-iron exoplanet.
Image: Mark Meamber/NIF.
Cover Design: Bethany Vukomanovic.
The feature article reports the discovery of the 1st extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi, by Michel Mayor & Didier Queloz, a discovery that will earn them the Nobel Prize in 2019
Anatomy of a kilonova (2017) - Aftermath of the merger between two neutron stars, initially observed in the form of the gravitational waves event GW170817.