The Great Repackaging
It may only be nine months since it came out, but I just gave the second Brain Jar Release a fresh lick of paint in the form of a cover re-design. Here it is, all shiny in its new iteration: I’ve been doing this sort of thing a lot recently, starting with the refurbishing of the Short Fiction Lab covers and the more recent decision to reformat the cover of The Birdcage Heart. it’s never a huge change–different fonts, same cover, small tweaks to the way things are presented–but it can have a big impact on the way the book looks. The original, off-centre design for You Don’t Want To Be Published was a function of the tools available. I’m largely pulling Brain Jar Press up by its bootstraps, which means working with the tools I can afford based upon the limited monthly budget I’ve allowed and whatever’s come in with book sales. When I started up, twelve months back,
