Sorry for the sparse posting here.  I’ve spent the last couple of weeks deep in preparation for a comic con over this last weekend, and then the time since fighting through my stacked-up email, and putting in some extra hours on the day job.  Regular posting will resume soon.

I know that the contact form has been spitting out occasional errors to the effect that “Cannot modify header information – headers already sent” yada yada yada.  To the best of my knowledge, I have still gotten all of the submissions which return those errors.

I’ve consulted the support forums for the contact form plugin and make a minor php tweak that should solve the problem.  So rest easy.

Hi y’all,

Wanted your input on this.  A particular author, who has had both an original cover and a resubmit featured on here, now wants me to redact the title from the post so that it won’t interfere with her search engine optimization. (Her original response was that I remove the posts entirely, but I pointed out that part of the purpose of CoverCritics.com is to allow other indie publishers to learn from the examples and discussion here.)

What do you think?  Should I be open to that kind of after-the-fact revision?

There’s been more interest in CoverCritics.com lately (largely spurred by a presentation I did on indie cover design at LTUE in February), with a corresponding rise in the number of submissions.

However, I don’t want to post more than three covers for critique per week, as I want commenters to have time to give thoughtful critiques without feeling that things are “piling up.”

The upshot is that the submissions themselves are piling up a bit.  There are currently five submissions in the hopper, or almost two weeks’ worth.

If you submitted and have not seen your cover here yet, please be patient.  (If, however, you’ve already submitted and don’t see your cover in two weeks’ time, feel free to drop me a line.  I have to rescue at least half of the submissions I receive from my spam folder.)

This Thursday through Saturday (February 11th through 13th), I’ll be participating in Life, the Universe & Everything (aka “LTUE”), a slightly fannish symposium on science fiction and fantasy held in Provo, Utah.  On top of having some items in the art show, participating in discussion panels, and barking sudden nuggets of wisdom to bewildered random passers-by, on Friday at 5pm I’ll be giving a presentation on “Book Cover Design for Self-Publishers.”  If you’re local and you don’t participate in LTUE, you’re missing out on so much I can’t tell you.