Hey #reading and #writingcommunity and #bookstodon people, I have a cover and title question
My fiction work is mainly short story collections. I publish the shorts when the pile of completed work reaches around 50k words, and thus far, have kept the same cover and title, and just incremented the volume counter.
Keeping the cover static saves a ton of cost and time, but in the D2D views, the Title and collection being the same may be hard for #readers to tell them apart.
Any thoughts?
@knbrindle
I was hoping some brainy person would blurt out "yeah, here's ho to deal with collections and many volumes" :)
But topmost thoughts are
- can I avoid having to vary the covers (because that is a big schlepp)
- is there a better way to distinguish the title of each collection than "volume #"
- is there a smart way to give each volume a unique name and keep the same series name
My novels are all part of a "Princess of Darkness" series, but each is unique enough to get its own title
Well, I'd consider maybe doing something like this:
1. Remove the "volume" from the cover, because more words == more things the same.
2. Make the volume number the most prominent thing on the cover.
3. Ditch the roman numerals... they're difficult to differentiate to the uninitiated, and even those who know how to read them might trip over them in small fonts
But barring cover changes, it looks like you are using the Series and Volume Metadata fields... beyond that, I'm not sure what else you can do but change the titles.
You could do a "subtitle" for each volume. I think the typical format is something like
"The Screw Turns: The Turneningā
But then, I'd also expect to see that on the cover so š¤·
Humphrey Archer
K.N. Brindle (they/them)