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Writer's Wednesday: Large Print Books

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At the request of my mother (and the librarian at the retirement home), I have created a large-print edition of Death By Ice Cream , with more to follow if this one flies. In case others are thinking of doing the same, I thought I'd share what it took. Cover: In the best of all worlds, you'd probably do a new cover just for the LT book. Since I don't have the funds for that (the more so as I'm dubious about this making the money back), I opted to use my okay Photoshop skills to enlarge the regular cover. Why enlarge? Because to make a LT book work, you probably need to use a larger format, unless you are already at the 6x9" size. Even then you'll need a much wider spine--something I didn't adequately account for when doing this one (I decided it's good enough, though, and am not going to change it). For the next book, I will probably try taking the separate pieces and enlarging them individually to assemble a proportional cover according to the specs f