I was working with my artist yesterday (it sounds like I have my personal, resident artist! Well, maybe I do!) on the final layout and design for my next novel, The Recluse Storyteller.

And can I just say, I hate fonts. They all look the same to me. I’ve already made font mistakes in my young Indie author career because I didn’t know any better. (but that’s for another post, depending on how vulnerable I want to be)

My artist has been pressing me to choose a font for the book title and my name. I kept telling her “I don’t know, you please choose!” But she kept pressuring me to choose. A designer friend told me to keep it simple for a title font and make sure it’s ‘sans’ – I do know what that means.

So, she showed me about 20 fonts and I kept saying, ‘yes’, ‘yes’, ‘that would work, ‘OK’. So finally, I think she got sick of me and went to the computer to pick it our herself. Something I really wanted her to do.

While she was doing that, I was looking on DAfont and I came across a couple that caught my eye. I was so proud of myself that I finally chose something. I took my ipad over to her and said what about this. She immediately said, “No!”  Then I showed her the next one. Another emphatic “NO!”

I think she finally got the picture. Don’t ask me about fonts. Just please pick them for me.

I’ll take care of the wording.

An artist’s eye I do not have.