Welcome to another Open Book Blog Hop. Here’s this week’s prompt.
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How many of your own graphics do you do? Does anyone help you with them?
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With my visual impairment, if I did my own graphics, they would look like something my robotic cat would drag in if she were able to do so. Fortunately, I’ve had plenty of assistance.
Leonore Dvorkin, at DLD Books, did an excellent job designing the covers for three of the four books this service helped me publish. The cover of My Ideal Partner, the first book we did together, a memoir about how I met and married my late husband Bill, then cared for him after he suffered two paralyzing strokes soon after we were married, includes our wedding picture. Images for other covers were found online.
The front cover images for my first three books that were published by iUniverse and Finishing Line Press respectively have different origins. The cover of We Shall Overcome, featuring a young woman with a white cane and sunglasses, was designed by someone at iUniverse. My poetry collection, How to Build a Better Mousetrap, includes a picture someone took of Bill and me after his strokes, where I’m standing next to him in his wheelchair, my arm around his shoulder. For the cover of That’s Life, another poetry collection published by Finishing Line Press, a friend took a photo of a large pair of pants hanging on a clothesline, since I advise my thirteen-year-old niece to put on her big girl pants in the title poem.
My back cover photos were taken by friends. My profile picture that you see at the bottom of my posts and on my website was taken by a local photographer who offered this service free to those attending a writers’ conference one summer. I’m thankful to have had such wonderful help with my graphics.
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If you’re an author, do you do your own graphics, or does someone help you? You can answer in the comments or click below to join the conversation and see what others say. Thank you for reading.
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by Two Pentacles Publishing
New! Living Vicariously in Wyoming: Stories
Copyright 2025 by Abbie Johnson Taylor
Published independently with the help of DLD Books.
Image Description written by Leonore Dvorkin of DLD Books.
As defined in the first story, living vicariously means living your life through someone else’s. You’re invited to live vicariously through the lives of the people in these stories. There’s the lawyer who catches his wife in the act with a nun. A college student identifies with a character in a play. A young woman loses her mother and finds her father. And a high school student’s prudish English teacher strenuously objects to a single word in her paper.
In Wyoming, as in any other state, people fall in love, and sometimes relationships are shattered. Accidents, domestic violence, prejudice, and crimes all occur. Lives are torn apart, and people are reunited. Ordinary people deal with everyday and not–so–everyday situations.
The 25 stories in this collection, most of which are set in Wyoming, are about how the various characters resolve their conflicts—or not.
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