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Before we left the States, I put all of the ending particulars on my subsequent guide. Including sending out a survey to see which guide cowl possibility you guys favored greatest for RVing Across America!
I had employed two designers, acquired again 6 customized designs, and selected my high two. I wished to listen to which design was the group favourite earlier than I took the time to go over remaining edits with the designer on little issues like fonts and the again cowl.
We acquired 1,000 responses and the outcomes appeared…nicely they appeared like a Pepsi emblem.
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There was one clear winner—and it was my favourite design of the 2 too! I used to be able to put the ultimate touches on it and transfer ahead.
But Heath had a bizarre feeling about it.
Something simply felt off to him concerning the “custom artwork” I commissioned from this artist.
So he did a picture search on Google and located this:
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The identical design. Slightly manipulated. For sale. From one other artist.
My customized illustration was decidedly NOT customized.
I couldn’t use a design that I didn’t really personal the copyright for, so I messaged the artist, advised him that he stole another person’s work, and got down to get a very new guide design.
Yes, I might’ve gone with the runner up guide cowl from the ballot, which I favored, however I wasn’t in love with it. And I used to be a bit of extra cautious about utilizing a design from somebody I didn’t know now that I had seen firsthand somebody blatantly ripping off another person’s work.
This all occurred at 5 PM final Friday BTW, giving me little or no time to get a brand new designer and a brand new guide cowl design earlier than we left the nation.
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We reached out to a few individuals on Friday evening. Our good friend Lee, who has designed a number of of our RVE Summit t-shirts, took on the venture with an impressively quick turnaround.
SO.
I’m tremendous grateful that you simply guys voted for a guide cowl for this guide.
I’m simply not utilizing both of them ????
The remaining guide cowl is:
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100% customized and distinctive to this guide!
Plus he even added in a bit of RV—which I do know lots of people wished to see on the quilt!
I’m so proud of the way it turned out and it feels actually good to know there’s no likelihood that I’d get sued by somebody for taking their design. ????
With a remaining cowl design and the guide all completed, I’m excited to shut my laptop computer and spend a while enjoying on the seaside and exploring Italy with the household!
You can preorder RVing Across America—new cowl and all!—on Amazon now ????
—Heath & Alyssa
PS Just the e-book is out there for preorder proper now, however the guide might be obtainable in paperback when it formally comes out on May twenty fourth ????