Chore Day, 9/28/2019 - Cooking, Doing Linuxy Things, and Pondering Cover Pages
/Most of today’s pondering has been about my children’s book cover art. I thought it would be a good idea to check the Web for some helpful tips. First I went to Ingramspark.com to look at their Cover Page Generator. Sorry, but you need an ISBN to use that “free” tool. I don’t have an ISBN number yet, so I tried a general search “DIY self-publish cover page template tutorial”. There were 23,000,000 results, which means there must be a lot of DIY self-publishers looking for answers and lots of Web Entrepreneurs ready to provide them. As I expected, all of the links on the first page of results were just ads for miraculous solutions to the cover page problem. Sometimes the WWW is just a pile of garbage and I’m feel like searching for the little piece of real information buried under a dung heap hype.
In the end I decided that I will simply look at an admirable children’s picture book and learn from it. I’m going to use Where the Wild Things Are as my model. It has 50 pages, not counting the cover. I’ll have 40 pages, which means that I won’t have enough pages to print the name of the book on the spine. Here’s what Ingramspark says:
Spine Type Safety: For page counts below 48, spine text is not available. Spines 0.35” and larger – 0.0625” (2mm) left/right sides. Spines smaller than 0.35” – 0.03125” (1mm) left/right sides.
