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b/w or color? by muchagecko (2.00 / 0) #15 Sat Jan 05, 2008 at 01:55:20 PM EST

I'll start looking at the stories this week.

"It means more if you have to earn it, even if it's by doing something as simple as eating a meal." Kellnerin
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b/w, mostly by Kellnerin (4.00 / 1) #16 Sat Jan 05, 2008 at 02:24:20 PM EST

The interior is all b/w because it costs a lot more to print color (Lulu doesn't do inserts -- it's all or nothing). If you check out the PDFs, I left blank pages by the winning stories (in case it makes a difference whether it's a recto or verso -- I know this is sort of designing backwards, rather than having the art first and then placing it). The trim is 6 x 9, and I was thinking we wouldn't mess with bleeds, but I can give it a shot if you have something in mind that works best as a bleed.

The cover can (and, I think, should) be color. That can be whatever you want ... I can lay type over it or you can incorporate the title into the illustration.

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"Late to the party" is the new "ahead of the curve" -- CRwM
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Honestly, by muchagecko (2.00 / 0) #17 Sat Jan 05, 2008 at 06:18:48 PM EST

it was your layout that got me interested in adding an illustration.

Nice work.

I'll probably get a chance to go over stuff this week at work.

"It means more if you have to earn it, even if it's by doing something as simple as eating a meal." Kellnerin
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: thanks :) by Kellnerin (4.00 / 1) #18 Sat Jan 05, 2008 at 06:32:40 PM EST

I've seen a lot of book designs -- ranging from beautiful through serviceable-but-uninspired to pretty sucky -- but this is my first real attempt at doing one myself. I was just hoping to be north of "total crap."
I can't wait to see what you come up with for images.

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"Late to the party" is the new "ahead of the curve" -- CRwM
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