As the offseason caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, hell have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his. Choose save as and give your book an original filename. Jack torrances new job at the overlook hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. Creepy kid from the shining back in new stephen king book. Sadly, the overlook is all about destroying families and twisting familial love. Blurbs are a brief description of a book typically found on the back of a book or within the book sleeve of a hardcover book. Buy the shining by king, stephen from amazons fiction books store. They also provide a pdf export profile to make sure everything will be exported properly to go through smoothly on their end. In this post, we tell you how to write a book blurb in five easy steps. To read their blurb they are the best thing ever, to use them is another matter entirely, poor. This volume of sunshining inspiration is a collection of n. Carrie, salems lot, and the shining were published before the art of blurbing had been perfected. I have used blurb and the paper and pictures are the utmost quality. When his father became caretaker of the overlook hotel his visions grew frighteningly out of control.
It deals with themes of demonic possession and maintains an unsettling atmosphere. The overlook hotel is their last chance to make it as a unit, or so they believe. I have several templates available on the blog and i am adding another set. I made a large 11 x book with 107 pages and 256 photographs. The shining is the third book published by stephen king. Access the cover by clicking the icon at the top left of the main toolbar 1. The shining meme generator the fastest meme generator on the planet. Yes, those odd numbers you see in the document setup are. Choose from a range of formats, including photo books, trade books, magazines, and ebooks.
While i wouldnt sell a blurb book to a client, the quality is really very good and ive been extremely happy with them. Get started with our free book making and design software options. In the old days, children, the back cover of novels was usually reserved for a blackand. Traditionally, it would be found on the inside back cover of a hardback. Print as you go sell one copy at a time and let blurb fulfill the orders or place a large order and sell inperson. Generally, 150200 words are more than enough for a full blurb. Back cover copy is the blurb on the back of a book. For reference, you will also find samples of their work on the home page. A simple outline for writing a killer book blurb ink and. In a nutshell, its the 200 odd words on the back cover of your book that describes the book to the reader. Are you ready to make a book but youre not sure where to start.
This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. However, there are a few things i wish i had known before undertaking this project, as it would have saved me some time and effort. Blurb bookwright guide designing a book cover cover design shares the same basic elements as page design. Although king himself remains disappointed with the adaptation, having criticized its handling of the books themes and of wendys character, it is. Stephen king has also written doctor sleep which is the shining book two. The book blurb s main purpose is to lure readers in and captivate them enough to buy the book.
Eclipsed perhaps only by its 1980 film adaptation, the novel is one of the most popular and enduring horror stories of all time. Great book with lots of very intelligently woven themes about family, devotion. Jack torrance, a loving father when sober, is a temperamental. Stephen king the shining collection 2 books set the shining, doctor sleep by stephen king, the shining by stephen king, et al. For ebooks, the description is posted on a book s purchasing page, along with the book cover and price. Affordable paperbacks and hardbacks are ideal for distribution. Despite these shortcomings, torrence starts out a decent family man. According to king, the shining has strong autobiographical undertones. The shining and millions of other books are available for instant access. After you create your photo book, you can export it to the web, to print through photo book printers like blurb.
Although he associates the hotel with luxury, he is somewhat defined by his role as its caretaker, a menial position. Whatever happened to that kid in stephens king novel the shining. His alcoholism and short temper are the themes running throughout the novel. To read their blurb they are the best thing ever, to use them is another matter entirely, poor company offering poor service. Best for books without color illustrations and graphics. Before we get into why most authors hate writing their back book cover blurb, lets clarify what it actually is. The plugin creates blank templates in the correct size and specs we require. Here are a few of the things i learnt from my experiences in preparing my first photo book using blurb s booksmart software. Ebook creator software easy online ebook maker blurb. Sell your book in the blurb bookstore, through amazon, or in the global retail network of over 38,000 retailers, libraries, and schools. But we know that is not enough reassurance for you.
The shining themes from litcharts the creators of sparknotes. Blurb is a fairly good website to make a notebook out of pictures and customized templates. You can also change the font size and color since all covers print in color. The shining is a gothic horror novel by stephen king, first published in 1977. Design your books with ease in lightroom with a blurb. Jack torrance, a loving father when sober, is a temperamental alcoholic and. More than 1 million books in pdf, epub, mobi, tuebl and audio book formats. Fully modifiable, these templates come with different colour palettes to harmonize content and showcase food photos. Caption a meme or image make a gif make a chart make a demotivational flip through images. Click download or read online button to get the shining book now. Though he strives to assure danny that the images he sees in the hotel are just like pictures in a book and cant hurt him, dick sternly warns danny to stay out of that room. A simple outline for writing a killer book blurb september 25, 2016 september 25, 2016 kaitlin hillerich in my last post, i mentioned that ive been working on a novella and shared some reasons why you should write one of your own.
As winter closed in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seemed to develop a. King answers that question with his new book, doctor sleep, delving back. For a demonstration of how to use this template, please check out this youtube video. I am a book designer that used to love blurb, but recently they changed vendors for trade books that are generated from a pdf. It deals with many of kings recurring themes, including alcoholism, domestic. Published in 1977, it is kings third published novel and first hardback bestseller. Click on the text containers to edit the book title and author name. The lightroom book module is a superuserfriendly feature you can use to create photo books quickly in lightroom. Fully modifiable, these templates come with different color palettes to harmonize content and. With ghosts, visions and psychological horror, the shining by stephen king is a very good horror story, i would say one of his best, right up there with the likes of salems lot which is another sk novel that i recommend if you enjoy horror. The novels protagonist, fiveyearold danny torrance, has psychic abilities, and the overlook hotelwhere dannys father, jack, is the winter. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you.
Dont modify your document size or it will fail our preflight check or need to be resized which can distort your artwork. The shining download free book online pdf teach of time. A collection of poetry inspired by nature, beautiful places, the age. How to write an irresistible book blurb in 5 easy steps. You can also edit the blurb flourish ornaments just like any font, experiment with changing the size and color. Danny was only five years old but in the words of old mr halloran he was a shiner, aglow with psychic voltage. How to use the lightroom book module pretty presets for. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. The shining read online free by stephen king novels22. As winter closed in and blizzards cut them off, the. The blurb plugin for indesign lets you create and lay out books and magazines without ever leaving your regular workflow and output in both print and digital formats. Review the tips for starter templates to get started. Firmly situated in the working class, jack begins the film unemployed, and we meet him at a job interview.
In the shining, socioeconomic class is presented as an underlying motive for jacks descent into madness. New selfpublishing options from blurb and book design. Share and sell your ebooks through the blurb bookstore, apple ibooks, or upload it to amazon without being locked into any single channel. Blurb makes it easy for you to make a book or magazinein both print and digital formatsfor yourself, to share, or to sell. As paperback publishing developed, readers began seeing the blurb appearing on the back cover. I used premium luster paper, they will send you a small sample. Automatic customized template creation based on your book size and. More lustrous than premium matte, this paper offers great tonal range and contrast.
Make the shining memes or upload your own images to make custom memes. Ironically jack cannot fulfill the potential he envisions for himself and types the same sentence repeatedly instead of the book he wishes to write. Copyright page samples you can copy and paste into your book. Have you tried using shining moms free printable daily planners. Aside from the overlook hotel itself, there is no clear. The shining mainly takes place in the fictional overlook hotel.
Best practices for using the indesign plugin help center. To ask other readers questions about the shining, please sign up. When youre done you can output a pdf to send to blurb or other book printing services. A blurb is a short description of a book that is written for promotional purposes. I dont like their notice and logo so i am going to pay extra to have their authorization to you my own notice and the photographers company logo. Use the button to work in layout mode just like when youre working on pages. Your blurb will be an important part of your marketing. You can also make entire books out of this website. The shining is a story of a desperate family, made up of jack and wendy torrance and their son, danny.
I used your template today for my book coming out on amazon soon, so you think you can write. Your book blurb must be wellwritten to get a readers attention. Search for the shining books in the search form now, download or read books for free, just by creating an account to enter our library. This new one is my prettiest free printable daily planner ever. The novel reflects many of the themes originally established by the gothic, but it goes further. Bookwrights book templates and layouts are a great place to start your book. I have had a number of books from blurb over the past year but i feel it is now time to move on.
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