https://www.barrowsbeebebooks.org/blog daily 0.75 2024-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66394b22ffa201748e559c3b/1715783141902-JQKP6SH5A72G5XYZ8CBD/image-asset.jpeg https://www.barrowsbeebebooks.org/blog/blog-post-title-four-5zacp-rk8gy-p2w8b-l5thb monthly 0.5 2024-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66394b22ffa201748e559c3b/1715030827469-XDNSL7EWZ6578MOMI1VG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - What Do We Know? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.barrowsbeebebooks.org/blog/blog-post-title-one-ccrcf-3pphs-sxadr-4ndwm monthly 0.5 2024-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66394b22ffa201748e559c3b/1730156067733-MMPAFV8I2SB4F5PJT2Y1/unsplash-image-3FjIywswHSk.jpg Blog - Making It Up - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.barrowsbeebebooks.org/blog/blog-post-title-three-2myhm-93j8g-9pzb3-6zxsc-d2rs4 monthly 0.5 2024-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66394b22ffa201748e559c3b/38257fd6-771e-43a2-a449-e35d060028d9/IMG_1868.jpg Blog - Cover Me - Make it stand out This was the most gorgeous of the five covers with the words “Muddy the Water” jumping off the page. We’d told Suzanne we liked the cover of “Where the Crawdads Sing” in that it was beautiful and seemed to be inviting the reader into a little-known world. This one had a similar vibe and it’s a sensation our main character, Ben, experiences in the book. He grew up in Northern New England and is blown away by how lush – and alive – everything is in The Lowcountry. But we had a worry: Was it sinister enough for a crime thriller? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66394b22ffa201748e559c3b/a7fc60fe-51d3-464c-b8ce-49b3383dccc5/Screenshot+2024-10-21+at+7.41.56%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Blog - Cover Me - Make it stand out This one did the best job conveying all the layers in the book, and it really hit the octopus theme. As a birdwatcher, I didn’t love that there were a pair of sandhill cranes (not a common bird in South Carolina) in flight on the cover, but that would have been an easy fix. (Just change it to pelicans. Voila!). This one seemed to be popular with the younger people we surveyed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66394b22ffa201748e559c3b/ef5fc2aa-16e7-4515-bc59-5bda8a6d734b/Screenshot+2024-10-21+at+7.42.11%E2%80%AFPM.png Blog - Cover Me - Make it stand out There’s depth to this one. It incorporated newspapers more than any other design and signals to prospective readers the detective work inside. There’s also a splotch – Mud? Blood? – in the background and the vertical title made it unique among the candidates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66394b22ffa201748e559c3b/40158bbb-34a0-4192-96be-0b2162008617/Screenshot+2024-10-21+at+7.42.22%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Blog - Cover Me - Make it stand out I’ll be honest: This was my favorite when I made my first pass at the choices. The shadow in the water provides an element of menace and we liked the way the title receded into the marsh grass. We weren’t sure about the tentacles and worried they gave it a Sci Fi feel. But that, too, would have been easy to remove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66394b22ffa201748e559c3b/24432b6f-deac-481d-a58f-0796735b7203/Screenshot+2024-10-21+at+7.42.27%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Blog - Cover Me - Make it stand out This has the crime vibe we were going for. I like Southern Noir fiction and this looks like the cover that would go with a Daniel Woodrell or Tom Franklin novel. 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