Barbara Fister's Blog – November 2007 Archive (2)

I'm covered!

I’ve been anxiously awaiting this moment. While I’m totally useless myself when it comes to graphic design, I’m enamored of cover art and love sampling it in a good bookstore. I like covers that are unusual,

colorful, say something about the book inside, and have a bit of

mystery to them - what is that about? Hmmm, let’s take a look . . .

So I was delighted to get the cover art for In the Wind, and…

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Added by Barbara Fister on November 30, 2007 at 2:33am — 2 Comments

kindling debate

It's a trifle ironic that, on the same day that the new NEA jeremiad, er, report on how reading is going to hell in a handbasket (again) Amazon finally released its e-book reader, Kindle. So, if nobody reads anymore, is Kindle - or, as Newsweek puts it in swooningly glowing… Continue

Added by Barbara Fister on November 20, 2007 at 11:21am — No Comments