Designing book covers is like giving birth, it can be a "pain" and sometimes no "labor" at all. There is a pleasure in the end result, when everything you put into it finally comes together and says, "THAT'S IT!" Not always does it come right away, but after many trials and errors (and I haven't had many of them)you find something that works and it unfolds in front of you. My most difficult cover was "Water Hazard" took me weeks only because the author couldn't make up his mind and when he did, he didn't quite like it and it needed to be tweaked a bit (more like ALOT), and when the cover was finally to his liking...he didn't use it! Now, of course, he wasn't an author from Vamplit, because all authors from Vamplit are awesome! Am I right?! I've never, ever had a problem with doing a cover for Vamplit, NEVER. In fact, I can usually spit out a cover in record time and have it turn out perfect usually the first ...
NOT GOOD! Sorry you had a bad experience with them.
ReplyDeleteIt's all spilled milk...I cleaned it up right away! LOL I'm just sorry for the unsuspecting authors who are still with them and don't know!
ReplyDeleteAll the writers that are still with Trestle- and there aren't many, over 40 quit in the first week of February- know about this situation but are sticking with Trestle, for whatever weird reason.
ReplyDeleteGio to me is a sneak,will go to great lengths to avoid questions that make him answer truthfully. The man avoided my questions to the point where I treated him like a 4th grader. In that I wanted yes or no answers to my questions. Then, and only then did I get what I asked and he retorted that he doesn't answer yes or no questions. The man is sly and I, nor anyone else should trust him. Those who stay with him are blind.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen this interview that Elaine didn't publish at the time? http://ashedit.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/trestle-press-alleged-stealing-art-for-e-book-covers/#comments
ReplyDeleteI read that and thought, "yup that's Gio for ya." Elaine wasn't asking anything cyptic or something shouldn't have been asked. The guy is hiding things that normally are brought out publically. I mean, that's how you get your authors!
DeleteSomeone had sent my husband a link to Trestle Press and suggetsted he enter their anthology. He asked me about them and after I checked them out, I told him they sounded fishy. They had something on their website that said to send them whatever you had, whether it was full of errors or not, that you never know, you could be the next Steven King, Lee Childs, etc etc. That set off alarms, but then they didn't list how much they were paying or a word count and when I asked them how much they paid, they said to send them an email with any questions. If they can't list publicly, for everyone to see what they pay, then I have to wonder. Jeff will be glad to know he dodged a bullet.
ReplyDeleteAuthors get 70% he receives 30%. The thing he is getting paid for the editing, marketing and promotional side and the book cover. I want to laugh right now. The man does NOTHING! He is using copyrighted images, all the authors are doing ALL the promoting and marketing and if he does the editing, it's not all that good, he should receive zip because he does not a thing. You are lucky your husband did not sign up with him.
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