As writers, it’s easy to focus on the writing of the book itself, the main copy. After all, without those thousands of words your book wouldn’t exist. They are crucial. But there are other parts to a book: Title page, dedication, contents, foreword, acknowledgments, endnotes, etc. Which parts you include depend on the genre that […]
Book Production
What is the Easiest Font to Read?
If you’ve never formatted a book before, you might not know exactly how much work goes into it. It might seem easy and uniform—it just needs to look like a book, right?—but you’d be surprised just how many decisions you’ll need to make if you’re formatting on your own. Among the most important of these […]
Book Anatomy: Revisiting Your Book’s Back Matter
I’ve recently been writing a series on Book Anatomy for the BookWorks site, and the most recent article just went live last week. In taking the opportunity to revise my own work of about 10 years ago on the Parts of a Book I found a number of places where the list could be updated […]
No Time To Write AND Market Your Book? This Should Help…
Every New Years I talk to authors who have big writing and publishing plans for the new year. And yes, as you know, most of them never pan out. Does that happen to you, too? This is all too common, and I think it’s partly due to an assumption many of us have that writing […]
New! The Book Blueprint: Expert Advice for Creating Industry-Standard Print Books
Announcing the publication of The Book Blueprint, Expert Advice for Creating Industry-Standard Print Books
Beware the Impossible Book Project
Don’t try to create an “impossible” book.
Is Offset Printing the Future for Indie Authors?
Self-published authors have ridden to fame and fortune on the wings of two technologies: e-books, and the hybrid print book production-distribution method known as print on demand. Each of these technologies reduces the financial risk inherent in book publishing. This is especially important for print books, where print on demand has eliminated the need for […]
Is This the Best Writer’s Journal Ever?
I’m betting you’re a writer. And like lots of writers, I bet you use writer’s journals. I know I do, but sometimes it gets frustrating. I’ve had lots of journals over the years, but they almost always disappoint. There are journals that are too small, or too big to handle Others don’t have enough pages, […]
The Epic Saga of WriteWell Journals: Book Production Success
The last time I visited what seems like a somewhat quixotic journey to try to create the ultimate writer’s journal, I was still waiting to see if my dream would become a reality. Here’s what I wrote a few months ago: In fact, today I’m waiting to get yet more samples, and this time, I […]
How to Create Artwork to Foil, Stamp, and Emboss Your Books
A look at how to prepare artwork for books that will be foil stamped, blind stamped, or embossed with stamping dies
