Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

At the request of my mother (and the librarian at the retirement home), I have created a large-print edition of Death By Ice Cream , with more to follow if this one flies. In case others are thinking of doing the same, I thought I'd share what it took. Cover: In the best of all worlds, you'd probably do a new cover just for the LT book. Since I don't have the funds for that (the more so as I'm dubious about this making the money back), I opted to use my okay Photoshop skills to enlarge the regular cover. Why enlarge? Because to make a LT book work, you probably need to use a larger format, unless you are already at the 6x9" size. Even then you'll need a much wider spine--something I didn't adequately account for when doing this one (I decided it's good enough, though, and am not going to change it). For the next book, I will probably try taking the separate pieces and enlarging them individually to assemble a proportional cover according to the specs f...

 First, some newsy bits. A huge thanks to all the bloggers who helped with the launch of Death By Adverb. It's really taking off, and I'm grateful! Second, I have just released a new Large Type version of Death By Ice Cream. This is perfect for your mom, or anyone with vision issues. If this one sells at all, I'll work my way through the rest of the books to create large type editions of each. If it doesn't sell, I may do it anyway :) Now for the day's post: I'm appearing today at the Tick Tock blog --please jump on over and take a look at what I have to say about some of the characters in my story!