by Joel Friedlander | May 15, 2013 | Book Design
Ed: This post is reprinted from Catherine Ryan Howard’s excellent blog Catherine, Caffeinated. The interview was part of a series of stops on blogs I undertook as part of the launch of our BookDesignTemplates.com site. However, I think there are some valuable...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 20, 2013 | Self-Publishing
Where we left off: “Wouldn’t it be better to help those poor authors struggling to turn a word processor into a layout program?” I wondered. “Isn’t there some way I could help them create books more easily, ones that didn’t make people cringe, that...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 18, 2013 | Book Design, Self-Publishing
It must have started even before the era of print on demand. It probably had its roots in the fabled past called the “Desktop Publishing Revolution.” Authors, sensing the freedom that would be theirs in just a few years, started to gravitate to the joys of...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 1, 2013 | Book Design, Self-Publishing
Okay, so you’re sitting at your keyboard pounding away, working on your latest work in progress. You get to the end of a section, hit [Enter] a couple of times and then type the subhead for the next section of text. You’re an experienced word...
by Joel Friedlander | Jan 14, 2013 | Cover Design, E-Books & Readers
Welcome to this edition of the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during December, 2012. Here’s what we received: 103 covers in the Fiction category 18 covers in the Nonfiction category Guest Judge: Damon Za I’m pleased to welcome...