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How to Make an eBook Cover

So you have an ebook ready for market — or well on its way to being ready, like I do — but you need a cover.

What software or service should you I use to design that cover? (I updated this post at the end on October 18, 2012.)

I did some minimal research and came across an outfit called MyeCoverMaker. With a name like that, what’s there not to like? (Some free options closed the deal for me.) Read it all

Am I Ill?

I just got back from my morning constitutional.

(What a nice brisk walk in the cool of the cloudy morning!)

I saw two of my neighbors out and about.

Neighbor One — his shirt sleeves not reaching to his wrists — was feeding his outdoor birds.

Neighbor Two — his pant sleeves not reaching to his leg wrists Read it all

Clovis First: Illegal Immigrants?

Earlier this week, a (liberal, but does that matter?) friend on Facebook shared a photo of a tee shirt that says, “Illegal immigration started in 1492.”

I commented: “Wow! That’s quite recent! ;-)”

Now this afternoon I learn about the Clovis people, upon whom science had settled as the first native Americans. (I don’t recall ever hearing of them before.)

Turns out, though, that (until this settled science gets unsettled) Read it all

Riding a Book Is Hard

And writing a book is much more hardest

Yes, you read that right: Riding a book is hard.

I mean, seriously — would you ride it as you would a horse, a camel, or a unicycle?

But no matter how difficult riding a book may be, writing a book is much more hardest.

(Now don’t go puttin’ on airs — I know to say “much more hard,” OK? I just like my way of Read it all

Above all, love God!