February Sundown Healing Arts Newsletter

[sonia]

Try a new narrative: “My perceptions and responses make sense. I am intrinsically good. I am doing my best with the resources and knowledge I have.” Naomi Ceder kindly sent me an update on how she's doing four years later, which I added at the end of this article based on her work from 2016.
Prefer Narratives with Hope, Updated

New book responses at Curious, Healing. Have you read these? Comments welcome!

• "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking" by T. Kingfisher
  
• "Across the Green Grass Fields" by Seanan McGuire

Embodying Hope so close!
I uploaded the final files for Embodying Hope to LightningSource today, following an epic struggle with Photoshop about ink density on the cover. When I receive and approve a physical proof, I'll make the book available for sale. You can see excerpts linked from the table of contents, as well as a list of links found in the book so readers don't have to type them in.

I might send out a rare second newsletter this month when the book is available, or you can keep an eye on the book's page for Buy buttons. Next I'll be working on the epub and Kindle ebook versions, which have also involved technical struggles in the past.

Curious, Healing is a blog, and you're welcome to comment there or here about the books. The articles don't have a comment section. You're welcome to comment here or send me email with any thoughts.

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Comments

[asakiyume]

The cover looks lovely--had you posted it before? (Quite possibly you had... I can scroll back and take a look)

[sonia]

Thank you! I am pleased with it, even after wrestling with it for days on end. I am crossing my fingers that the printed copy looks equally good...

I posted it larger last month. Although I do still need to reupload it with the lightened photo. I don't know if the difference will be noticeable at that size anyway.

If you peer very closely at the post icon, you can see that I changed my mind about capitalizing With in the subtitle. (Do you have opinions on that? Internet research results were mixed.) I need to reupload the icon too. Lots to do!

[asakiyume]

So you went from lowercasing it to capitalizing it--or the other way round? (Which is your current version, the icon or the picture in the post?)

I prefer it lowercased, and that's what Chicago Manual of Style would advise, but really when you're talking about cover design, you're absolutely in your rights to go either way, and as it's the first word in second line of the subtitle, you have a good argument for going uppercase if you like.

(By the way, I liked the article you linked to in an earlier post on line editing versus copy editing--she was talking in the context of editing fiction, but I agree with what she was saying.)

[sonia]

I went to lowercase, partly because every time I typed it I made it lowercase and then had to go back and correct it. Also a previous cover had it lower case. Thanks for the info!