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    Keeping You Informed On the Real Business of Getting Published

    Well, here’s what’s going on lately. The cover got finalized after seven revisions. You know me, I believe there are only two ways to attract a reader to a book — word of mouth and the cover. Especially for small presses. It’s about the only way to advertise what the book is about. Ironic that you have to use an image to promote text (but there’s a reason they say a picture is worth a thousand words). I started getting cover art mockups a few weeks ago. The first was just a simple picture of a mermaid. I said, well this doesn’t illustrate what the book is really about. It…