Just a quick post to display my new badge I was awarded by The Book Designer – a.k.a. J.F. Bookman.
Every month he opens for submissions newly published book covers by authors. I entered my latest book, Words We Carry and was so close to winning for best nonfiction cover of the month of January. The nominees selected are given a Gold Star and from that shortlist one is selected. There were 3 in my category and although I didn’t win, I was honored to be positively critiqued by JF Bookman and offered a badge to show that I was nominated.
If you’d like to click on the link below and see how the process works by J.F. please do so and have a look at some of his comments regarding photos, fonts, feel for a book, etc.
(http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2015/02/e-book-cover-design-awards-january-2015/)
DGKayewriter.com 
Doesn’t matter if you didn’t win. The fact that you were mentioned is all that you need.. And I think the cover is Fuckingfantastic!!!! ❤
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Love you Annie girl! xo ❤
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This is neat! 🙂
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Thanks Carol 🙂
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Well deserved. Whoever did your cover did a wonderful job.
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Thanks Adam. Yvonne Less from http://www.diversepixel.com did my cover in collaboration with me. I am involved in the theme and concept of all my covers. I get an idea of what I want my cover to represent and the elements in them. I search for possible pictures the artist can use which saves her a lot of time and eliminates a lot of preliminary ideas starting from scratch. We work well together. She brings my ideas to life.
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Congratulations on the nomination- awesome. And thanks for the link too:-)
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Thank you kindly A.K. The bookdesigner is a huge presence in the Indie world. 🙂
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Deb, that’s awesome about how close you came with your ROCKIN’ book cover! I think that’s great 😀
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Thanks for the kudos my sweet friend! xo
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Deb
You are the greatest. No awards needed. But what an honor! YOU are playing with the big boys now! Personally I think that there was no question, you should have won.
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Coming from one of my biggest cheering sections, lol. I am humbled at your belief in me Di. Thanks for always being so supportive and your uplifting seems to come at opportune times. xo ❤
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Congratulations for Words We Carry (a great title, BTW) and the honor of being nominated. The cover is excellent. I think we’re both learning to take the encouragement when it comes and realize we won’t get everything we want. But we might get a few things we never expected. Go Debby!
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Thanks so much Elaine for your kind words of wisdom! 🙂
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No matter, I like this cover a lot, Debby. Most likely the best of your three books to me anyway. ❤ ❤ I'm not saying the others aren't GREAT, I simply like this one best. ❤
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Thanks Tess. I appreciate your feedback. And I tend to agree with you! ❤
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Its the thought that counts.. so how great is that.. Well done 🙂 xxx
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I’m thrilled! 🙂 xo
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