There’s been an ongoing discussion in the comments to the post on Fair Use and Copyright, and it seemed like a good time to explore some of the resources readily available that can supply images for use in blog posts or books without fear of infringing someone else’s copyright.
The most common explanation I hear from [...]
From the category archives:
Cover Design
It’s not a small thing to write a book, to actually complete the project. Maybe it’s a novel you’ve worked on for years, going through revision after revision to polish it to perfection. Or perhaps you’ve put together a book of lessons you’ve drawn from your life, or a detailed history of your hometown.
You’ve had [...]
I frequently get asked what exactly a book designer does. Just the other day I spoke with a client whose book is in copyediting. I’ll be getting ready to start work on his interior next week.
“Well, do you need to do anything,” he asked. “I mean, there’s just a couple of formats, right?”
I couldn’t help [...]
The Spirit of the River (affiliate link) is a terrific novel by Diane McCarthy, published by her own Cloudland Press. I met Diane at an all-day publishing workshop run by the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) where we are both members.
After I finished the book I decided to redesign the cover. Now this [...]
This is the second article about dealing with a cover design project with artwork supplied by the client. In the first, I looked at the book cover design process for Chris Finlan’s Not A Fire Exit. This time I’m going to look at the designs prepared for Bill Goldberg’s The “And” Principle.
Here is the artwork [...]
Over the last few months I’ve designed two book covers that involved artwork supplied by the author. This is a slightly unusual situation and forces you to think in creative ways. If your client hands you a piece of artwork and says, “I love this! I want it on my book cover,” then you had [...]
The post continues the Book Construction Blueprint, a series of posts providing reliable guidance to anyone taking on the construction of a book that must conform to generally-accepted practice.
We’ve already looked at the parts of a book, book pagination, the copyright page, the use of chapters and subheads, and the elements found on the book [...]
The call came one day while I was trying to squeeze a giant squid into a 7″ x 10″ book. I was working on Search for the Giant Squid for Lyons Press, and some of those fellas are pretty big, so big I was wrestling with the idea of turning the book sideways, not something [...]
The cover of your book plays many crucial roles in the marketing of your book. But for many people, the first time they’ll see the cover is in a listing online, an Amazon page, or an email.
This makes the representation of your cover in electronic form even more important than ever. And if you are [...]
