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9 Book Design Tips that Authors Absolutely Need to Know
9 Book Design Tips that Authors Need to Know, including how to organize your manuscript and how to avoid unnecessary formatting work, tips on how to prepare your work for page layout.
Book Sizes: Your Complete Guide to Picking the Right Trim Size for Your Book
Book sizes vary depending on genre, audience, and a multitude of other factors. If you are self-publishing, it’s helpful to have a firm grasp of what your book size should be before you take your book to print. If you traditionally publish, knowing what size book to...
7 Tips for Getting Your Book into Local Bookstores (and Why You Might Not Want To)
6 Tips for Getting Your Book onto Bookstore Shelves including starting locally, listening to your buyers, and expecting to hear a lot of “no” before you get to “yes”
X/Twitter for Authors: The Ultimate Guide
X, formerly known as Twitter, can be a powerful platform for authors looking to market themselves and their books effectively. Whether you’ve been on Twitter/X since the early days or are new to the platform, there are opportunities still to be had there. And the...
Using Real People in Your Writing: The Tricks and Traps
Do you ever worry about using real people in your writing? Fiction writers often worry about using real people’s names. Even memoirists and nonfiction writers identify people by name and worry about the ramifications. Can writers model characters after real people and...
9 Best Font Combinations for Book Design
The font combinations we use for books are a real contradiction. They can be so quiet you just don’t notice them. But if you enlarge the letters, you can see right away that they are full of idiosyncrasies and flourishes. Display fonts, on the other hand, announce...
10 Best-Selling Sci-Fi Book Covers to Inspire and Guide You
A great book cover makes the reader feel something before they read the first line of the story. It moves them to begin thinking about the book’s possibilities and whether or not they want to strap in for the ride. The sci-fi genre is all about alternative realities...
Your Dedication Page: 7 Types and How to Format Them
Your book started with a blank page. Now it’s a finished novel with chapters and everything! Congratulations! After all of that hard work. Who do you dedicate it to? Who is worthy of holding the weight of your masterpiece? While it is true that your dedication...
15 of the Best Writing Organization Tools to Use Now
Writing a book is one of the most meaningful projects you can dedicate your time to. Your book has the potential to entertain and inform people far into the future. It also sets an amazing example for those around you, showing them it’s possible to dream of being an...
Designing Audiobook Covers: Adapting Your Book Cover Design
You’d think that audiobook covers were simple to make. Just crop the original cover down into a square and move around a few words, right? Not exactly. First impressions always matter, especially when it comes to books. Treating your book’s cover design like an...
