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 Strivers
Row by April Smith Coley is a must read! It's fast paced, easy
to follow and is a story line that we can all relate to. Strivers Row
has something for everyone. Check it out. Strivers Row is available
at Amazon.com!
A book’s cover art is used not only on the book. It can appear in publisher catalogs, promotional ads, on Web sites, and on marketing materials (like posters, bookmarks, business and post cards, T-shirts, even e-cards). The possibilities are limited only by your imagination. Authors
often ask me how to find ideas for their covers.
I suggest that they go to bookstores and supermarkets, wherever
books are displayed, to get a sense of what appeals to them, as well as
what doesn’t, so they know what to avoid.
I’m continually scanning newspapers, magazines, and even TV
shows and commercials for visual inspiration. Happy, satisfied authors for whom I’ve designed covers have followed up with results such as: “Walked into my local Barnes & Noble bookstore to try and set up a booksigning. They took one look at my new book cover and scheduled me for the first week in March.” “(At this book fair)…there were 40 or so vendors at three long rows of tables…several people commented that I had the nicest and most professional looking book out there. And five of them even opened their wallets to me.” In summary, you show your readers that your writing is worth reading by the cover you present to them. Cathi
(“Cat”) Wong is a free-lance artist/illustrator affiliated with
Infinity Publishing, a P.O.D. (Print On Demand) publisher.
Between cover art and illustration assignments, she wears the
hats of Author’s Advocate and Art Director for Infinity.
She can be reached at 1-877-289-2665, Ext. 14 (leave a message),
or e-mail her at caw004@aol.com.
Her Web site is currently under construction.
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When I receive email messages titled “New virus! Do Not Open!”, I immediately ask the sender if they have a anti-virus application that would have notified them of such virus. More often than none, the answer is no. Upon opening the email message, I look for the name of the virus. This is what I place into the search engine on the McAfee or Symantec website. I search both the virus and hoax files. If I find this to be a true virus, I will immediately download the latest DAT file so that I am protected and so that the virus application can indeed identify and quarantine (isolate for deletion) the virus. If I find that this message contains information to be considered a hoax (not real), I copy resource information and forward it to the sender of the original message. I inform them not to continue the cycle of sending hoax information...that is how attention is drawn to the incorrect information. The latest hoax to be sent via email is the Sulfnbk.exe virus email. The email message details how to locate this file on the computer system and tells users to delete this file. Well, this file is a needed file located in the C:\windows\command folder in the Windows 98 operating system. Based on the location of this file, the command folder, it is a necessary file needed to execute commands in Windows 98. True enough, this file can be infected by a virus, if a machine were not protected from an invasion, but this file ALONE is not a virus. Again, I cannot put enough emphasis on keeping your computer protected from viruses. Visit the two vendors mentioned in this article for information on purchasing. You can purchase virus software online and in stores...even at your local Wal-Mart. I have seen the affects of virus invasion first hand, from my home computer to a email servers at a large corporation. No one is exempt from the targets of an invasion. If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to email me by clicking on my name below. Happy Computing! Lisa R. Cross is a 16 year computer geek who works as a Network Administrator/Computer Specialist for the feds. She also owns a very small communications and technology business, Cross The Network. A native of Denver, CO she resides in Dallas, TX. Infinity
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