Dusting off the Designs Skills

With Supernova and the European Tour coming up, I thought it would be nice to have some freebies to give out. So I dusted off my old graphic design skills and produced a bookmark:

It's deliberately simple for two reasons. Firstly, to use any artwork from my book covers I'd have to get permission from the publisher and artist. I could use book cover, but then I'd have the dilemma of choosing not just which books, but my first six books have three different covers – and that's just the english language editions.

Secondly, I wanted the bookmark to be able to do this:

It folds up to become a business card.

In fact, it's a longer, colour version of my business card, which I find I use for one purpose over any other: when I meet someone who, upon finding out I'm an author, asks what the titles of my books are, I know that if I start listing them off their eyes will glaze over and they'll never remember any of the titles. So I give them my card and they have the full list there and my website address, if they care to investigate further.

I only had a short print run of 250 done, but if I give them all away at Supernova I can always get more done for the tour. I don't want to end up with lots of leftovers, because in a few years there'll be another three book titles to add to that list.