Note: This is another post summing up the experience of the first year of TheBookDesigner. It follows Top 10 Blog Posts of My Rookie Blogging Year. Keywords. Those elusive targets of internet marketers and everyone who tries to get traffic to a site on the web....
People do different things when confronted with choices for their book cover design. As a book designer, I like to present clients with real differences. This starts a dialogue between us that will eventually end in the final cover design that goes to press. But how...
Case Study: Opening the Gates of the Heart: A Journey of Healing, text and photos by Carolyn CJ Jones Design brief: Use the author’s prototype book as an inspiration for a book design and manage a cost-effective production of a hardcover full-color book....
Case Study: Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves by Kathleen Barry Design brief: Create a complete book design for the important launch of a new imprint. Constraints: None. The author was committed to turning out...
In my recent blog redesign I added the “Start Here” categories on the left sidebar to make it easier to find articles with basic information about self-publishing. Each introduces a stage on the journey to publication with links from the archives of...