I finished a historical fiction novel and I’m working on two more books. I also write regularly here on Medium, using some posts to also populate my website blog. Whether I publish my debut novel the old-fashioned way using a literary agent and a traditional publisher or opt into the…
Have you established your brand colors? It’s okay if you haven’t yet. You won’t need them until you launch a website, redesign your Medium profile page, or start creating graphics to promote yourself.
That said, there are other “less significant” times when you may want to customize a color for…
Your font or typeface choices in your graphics and website design tell a story about you. It may be a short story, but fonts say something.
Font styles fall into three categories: serif, sans serif, design. The graphic above shows the two serif styles. A serif is a little curlique…
Where would Valentine’s Day be without shiny red, heart-shaped boxes of candy? Or for non-chocolate lovers, do you have a bear with a red satin heart applique lying about somewhere? Though I’m not much inclined to celebrate this obvious Hallmark invention or homage to capitalism (I do love some capitalism…
In January 2022, Koinonia opened a new section on our publication called Morning Devotions.
If you haven’t applied to write for Koinonia, find our application at the bottom of this page.
The ultimate (future) goal is to have a devotion ready every morning (Monday — Saturday) for our readers. Let’s…
I’m in a variety of Facebook writing groups and not a week goes by that someone doesn’t ask about book cover design. There are a lot of rules depending on the book format — e-book, hardcover, paperback, or audiobook.
But because so many of these authors are planning to self-publish…
These style guidelines ensure consistency of appearance, so Koinonia looks like a high-quality publication. When you are importing a story from another site, please be sure to check that your imported post meets these requirements before submitting.
If you haven’t applied to write for Koinonia, find our application at the…
The first day of March 2022 will be Mardi Gras or better known as, “Fat Tuesday.”
There are numerous ways to view this day:
A Facebook Cover template is the right size for a featured graphic at the top of a Medium post. 1200x800 pixels is a good ratio of width to height. This larger size is necessary if you use either of Medium’s two right-most picture formats.
Pexels is a website featuring free photo and video content to spur creative work. I wrote about its effective use here.
Planning, creating, and distributing content is already hard enough — so we built something to make your 2022 a little easier. (Pexels’ January 2, 2022 announcement)
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