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Sentencing Kershaw, Judge Jonathan Rose told him: "I find this case to be the worst case of dangerous driving it has been my misfortune to come across.
Kershaw was travelling from his home in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, to the Beat-Herder Festival in Sawley, Lancashire, on July 1,3 2018 after spending the previous night drinking and taking ketamine with friends.
Miss Henderson, who lived with Mr Keane and his parents at their home in Billinge, described how they were celebrating her boyfriend's birthday with a trip away on the day of his death.
One of the unintended consequences of doing your own novel’s cover is having to translate what you had originally created in written form to a visual form. Usually, authors don’t have much input or control over what happens to their book after it sells to a publisher. But when you do it yourself, you become the producer of a product and as a result, must make tough decisions on how to market that product.
It suddenly becomes a terribly important issue, almost as important as polishing your manuscript. This is the first thing your reader will see in regards to your story. What will make them pick up the book and then turn it over to read the back cover copy? Will that copy be engaging enough to make them crack it open and look inside? Will that in turn get them to bring your book to the cash register? It must be. Because unless you are famous, your good name alone is not going to guarantee you any sales.
Cover art is so important that it could literally determine if your book is sold or passed over. Many, many buyers judge books by their covers. It’s a fact of marketing. Even on Amazon, if your cover does not engage the reader, it will be passed over. If a reader can’t grok what the book is about by looking at the cover, they will move on and leave your book in the digital wasteland.
For my latest SF book, Tyrmia, I have struggled quite a bit to come up with a good cover. The story is SF, but the traditional SF elements are at the beginning and at the end. For much of the story, the hero is alone with indigenous aliens in a rain forest.
Our first attempt involved showing the hero’s space ship crashed in the tree tops of the rain forest. It hinted at the story but it was just not engaging enough.
Our second attempt involved showing a scene from the book that involved the hero killing a tiger-like animal with a bow and arrow. While dramatic enough, it was not clear that the story was even SF. It could have been a Fantasy novel.
The final idea involved something more intimate and realistic in nature. An extreme close up of the native alien’s eye. Inside the pupil of the eye, would be a reflection of the heroine. The Tyrmians are green with yellowish eyes so the color scheme was locked in. The shape of the eye and details of it would suggest human but at the same time would be very alien.
Here is my original sketch of the idea.
This is the first mock-up from the cover artist, Jeremy Wynn.
I moved in closer on the eye to better match my original sketch and added the title and author name in the correct font. This is pretty much how the final form will be. Details will change, but the overall design is now set.
The final cover will be engaging, unique (at least as far as anything else on the SF book shelves) and immediately says Sci-Fi. As an added bonus it also communicates something about the plot.
In order to guide the artist in bringing the title aliens to life, I had to have a clear image in my head of what they looked like. I always allow artists to have a degree of freedom, artistic license if you will. But the end product must be clear in my mind and I have to communicate that effectively. It’s very similar to being a movie director.
All the hard work and imagination that goes into creating a good cover can pay off big time in book sales. I firmly believe that the military coin idea for the Starstrikers book has led to more sales than anything else. People who are in the military get that its a Unit Coin and people who are looking for military SF are attracted to it for similar reasons.
With any luck, the cover for Tyrmia will also inspire readers to give the book a chance.The Student Travel Program is a student fee funded program that provides travel grants for MSU Denver students. These grants help fund the cost of transportation, registration and lodging for qualified individuals or student groups wishing to attend regional, national, or international professional conferences or conventions. Individual students, pairs or student groups may apply for funding once each fiscal year (July 1 – June 30).
Individual Funding - One student presenting original research at a conference. Eligible for up to $625.
Pair Funding - Two students presenting original research at a conference. Eligible for up to $1,250.
Group Funding - Three or more students who just want to attend a conference (not presenting). Eligible for up to $1,875.
The lead student must complete a consultation meeting (click on the following link for consultation request form:https://roadrunnerlink.msudenver.edu/submitter/form/start/183989 prior to the proposal deadline. This consultation meeting is required so that the specifics of the funding process, including the proposal and presentation, may be discussed. Failure to complete a consultation meeting prior to the proposal deadline will result in a 10-point deduction from your scoresheet. Please pay close attention to proposal deadlines. No late proposals will be accepted. The Student Travel Program proposal and presentation must be student-led.Issue 68 of #Shill zine.
in #Shill zine.
than interacting. No purchases.
considered, you may not have seen that hopefully causes you to look deeper.
Enough said. You know the drill.
create the NFT in your image.
calling it a “r__ in disguise”.
media conglomerate CNN into web3.
NFTs with better odds.
and is minting today on Magic Eden’s launchpad.
of qualified professionals in the web 2.0 space.
further spur their growth.
inspired by the original NFT collection.
attribute, from 0.25g all the way to 10g.
of 5555 NFTs and a 1 Sol mint price.
better rewards from their game.
quickly turned to disappointment, then disgust.
the community was not pleased.
allowed to sell their NFTs whenever they pleased.
positions, drawing confusion from the community.
even sell their NFTs.
yet to properly address these issues.
in. The floor price has since come down to 7 Sol.
chain attack" is.
developers, not just @solana.
nucleus for fine art on Solana.
husaensadam and premier creators like @septadenata.
one of the most decorated art galleries in the space.
Oct 21 over 67 issues.
participants across the Solana NFT ecosystem.
the first on-chain art DAO on Solana.
and I'm seeing a lot of strong feelings on my timeline.
There's nothing wrong with being paid to market.
corner of the blockchain.
I said I would never sell my God - and I haven't.
Want to know where it went? Read on.
diversity and inclusion in Web 3 and NFT projects.
The problem, as I see it, is two-fold.
when the space looks like this?
and smart traders.
himself a "caller".
Should marketing be more obviously labelled?
but, in Australia...
it sometimes) I still see no change for the better.
encourage her to get involved.
meaningful sacrifice to onboard someone new.
challenge and inspire.
help improve diversity in our space.
@PrimitiveMoney @credlessk @TopoGigio_sol.
The threat of yellow fever continues in Angola where slightly more than 2,000 suspected cases of this infection have been registered. Of these, 258 people have died. In just 1 week (ending April 24th), there were 115 new suspect cases and 8 new deaths. The epidemic continues principally in the capital city Luanda.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there are reports of 37 yellow fever cases (16 confirmed by laboratory tests and 21 probable). All 16 confirmed cases previously travelled to Angola. The results for the 21 probable cases are pending. In addition, at least 2 probable cases acquired their infections locally in Kinshasa and in Matadi (Congo Central province).
The outbreak in Uganda involves 39 suspect cases reported in 7 districts, including Masaka and Rukungiri. Based on available information, this outbreak appears to be unrelated to the epidemic in Angola.
Given the present situation, all travellers to these 3 countries should obtain a yellow fever vaccination at least 10 days prior to travelling. All 3 countries require arriving travellers to provide proof of yellow fever vaccination.
There’s no chance of passage so why are Republicans pushing it now? “Just because something may not pass doesn’t mean that the American people don’t expect us to stand up and be counted for the things that we believe in,” says McConnnell.
The more honest explanation is that a fight over a balanced-budget amendment could get the GOP back on the same page — reuniting Republican government-haters with the Party’s fiscal conservatives. And it could change the subject away from social issues — women’s reproductive rights, immigration, gay marriage