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selfmadeherogn:

Cast your eyes on these two books: 

Notice anything? They look quite similar from afar, don’t they? 

Look a little closer. 

Bingo: the colour’s different. The yellows. One’s like an African sunset; the other has the hue of a wet sandpit. 

There is sadness in that yellow.

And, hold on, I’m no designer, but is the one on the right… pixellated? Surely not. SelfMadeHero don’t do pixellation.

Wuhhhhaarrrrgggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!

What’s happened here? How did that slip through the editorial net? Did SelfMadeHero supply the wrong file? Is the one on the right the large print edition?

Let’s take a look inside. Page 1.

(Brace yourselves.)

OOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, there’s a difference. One has words; the other has words and pictures. 

I prefer the one with words and pictures. I like how the chapter heading is on the right-hand page.

That’s normal, isn’t?

Not with every book, it seems.

But this book - the left-hand book, if you’re wondering - is a fake. 

The offending “publisher” has used the cover of I. N. J. Culbard’s graphic novel adaptation of The King in Yellow for his own CreateSpace release of the original book.

So, while they might nestle together as if they belong on the same floor, SelfMadeHero’s floor…

They don’t. One is a SelfMadeHero book. The other is a CreateSpace book.

#CreateSpace #thieves

derpygurl:

by derpygurl

First of all this list is in no way comprehensive. (I could probably list 50 things). Second, this is just my opinion. I know a LOT of artists and I keep seeing the same things happening at cons year after year. I feel people need to start operating differently, otherwise cons really are going to be a waste of money and time. So this is what I think most artists are doing wrong when they try to sell their stuff at cons…

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