Easy on the Eyes
Galaxy and Lee from "Behind Frenemy Lines" aren't the only eye candy in my paperbacks. It's the print, itself!
If you're like me, ever since childhood, nothing could deter me faster than tiny, bunched up text. Sadly, even when my eyes were perfect, I was a literary rebel, repelled by publications that read more like clauses in a legal document. I probably missed out on a some good reads. No matter how scintillating the topic is, if I open a book and see crammed paragraphs, it might as well have skull and crossbones guarding the threshold, which is how dreary most high school Lit material felt back then anyway.
Fortunately, tiny typesetting and mandatory assignments didn't turn off the love of reading --or writing! And luckily, I found plenty of comfortable print to bend back bindings like a security blanket.
Literature should be fun and relaxing. Readers need space to teleport. Authors work hard crafting just the right touch. Their words and sentences need room to swell and breathe... like a fine wine.
So, in case anyone ever wonders, this is why my fonts are set at eleven with a 1.5 line space. It's not technically "large print" which starts at eighteen. I originally tried ten point and single, which is roomy enough for most, but while thumbing through the proof, it still felt crunched to me. (Drat my worsened eyes.)
When someone peeks into my novels, I want the pages to say,
"Come in, sit for a spell. You're welcome here."
If you're like me, ever since childhood, nothing could deter me faster than tiny, bunched up text. Sadly, even when my eyes were perfect, I was a literary rebel, repelled by publications that read more like clauses in a legal document. I probably missed out on a some good reads. No matter how scintillating the topic is, if I open a book and see crammed paragraphs, it might as well have skull and crossbones guarding the threshold, which is how dreary most high school Lit material felt back then anyway.
Fortunately, tiny typesetting and mandatory assignments didn't turn off the love of reading --or writing! And luckily, I found plenty of comfortable print to bend back bindings like a security blanket.
Literature should be fun and relaxing. Readers need space to teleport. Authors work hard crafting just the right touch. Their words and sentences need room to swell and breathe... like a fine wine.
So, in case anyone ever wonders, this is why my fonts are set at eleven with a 1.5 line space. It's not technically "large print" which starts at eighteen. I originally tried ten point and single, which is roomy enough for most, but while thumbing through the proof, it still felt crunched to me. (Drat my worsened eyes.)
When someone peeks into my novels, I want the pages to say,
"Come in, sit for a spell. You're welcome here."
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