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John Byrne Barry
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in Chicago, The United States
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April 2012
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Creating a Unifying ‘Brand‘ for My Book Covers
I have long wanted to create a “brand” for my four books to unify them. Make them look like they belong together. My books are not a series, but they share enough similarities that they do indeed belong together. But the covers do not demonstrate that.
Here are the front covers as they exist now — in the order published.
They do not look like they belong together, though the first and the fourth
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"Fun, unpredictable, and entertaining! When you have characters like Fenton Felton, a bankrupt developer with a vengeful wife and a pregnant mistress, Honest Abernathy, who never gets out of his pirate get-up, and his sister, Fate, who wears her porta"
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Pirates of Sausalito: Houseboat Wars Murder Mystery:
"I loved listening to this audiobook so much. I was laughing so hard I had tears coming from my eyes. I just loved this story.
This takes you on a ride with a cast of characters that you will definitely going to fall in love with, as I sure did. The ch" Read more of this review » |
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Pirates of Sausalito: Houseboat Wars Murder Mystery:
"As someone who once lived on the Sausalito Waterfront, when I noticed this title on Victory Editing's Instagram feed (my own mystery The Corpse in the Trash Room is also on their feed), I knew I had to read this! The advance reader edition available "
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