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Book Cover Design Symposium in Your Inbox

by Joel Friedlander on March 8, 2011 14 Comments

Book Cover Design Symposium in Your Inbox. The monthly email from Goodreads, the social reading site, reveals conventions in book cover design in each genre.

Filed Under: Cover Design, Social Media Tagged With: book cover design, design conventions, Goodreads, literary genres, self publishing

Self-Publishing Bang for the Buck

by Joel Friedlander on March 5, 2011 22 Comments

Self-Publishing Bang for the Buck means no matter what, you should get your book edited and hire a book cover designer to prepare your book for the market.

Filed Under: Cover Design, Editorial, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book cover design, book cover designer, book editing, cover design, Editing, priorities, publish a book, self publishing

Lessons From a Do-It-Yourself Book Cover Designer

by Joel Friedlander on March 4, 2011 2 Comments

Lessons From a Do-It-Yourself Book Cover Designer by Will Entrekin, how he designed the covers for his first three books, and got an education along the way

Filed Under: Book Design, Cover Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book cover design, book cover designer, cover design, designing book covers, Entrekin, Meets Girl, self publish book, self publishing, self-publish a book, Sparks, Will Entrekin

Book Design Case Study: Short Stories by Erika Dreifus

by Joel Friedlander on January 13, 2011 11 Comments

Book Design Case Study: Short Stories by Erika Dreifus. Interior and cover design for a book of sensitive and literary stories featuring Holocaust survivors.

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production, Cover Design Tagged With: book cover design, book design, Erika Dreifus, Last Light Studio, micropress, poets and writers, print on demand, Quiet Americans, The Practicing Writer, typography

Lightning Source Book Cover Templates for DIY Self-Publishers

by Joel Friedlander on January 6, 2011 45 Comments

Lightning Source, Inc., the print on demand supplier that’s a division of Ingram Book Company, is arguably the biggest supplier of digital books to the publishing trade. They are used by many traditional publishers, and by competitive self-publishers who want to make use of Ingram’s distribution channels. One of the really neat features of their […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book cover design, book cover template, cover template generator, Ingram Book Company, layout, Lightning Source, self-publish a book

Book Design to Sell: Tips for Self-Publishers

by Joel Friedlander on December 14, 2010 13 Comments

Book Design That Sells: Tips for Self-Publishers. An excerpt of an interview with Laura Cross

Filed Under: Book Design, Interviews, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book cover design, design tips, Expert-Entrepreneur, interview, Laura Cross, self publishing, sell your books, teleseminar

Joanna Penn: Crowdsourcing Your Book Cover Design

by Joel Friedlander on October 29, 2010 10 Comments

Joanna Penn: Crowdsourcing Your Book Cover Design. On her blog, the author gets her readers to help decide on the final cover design for her novel, Pentecost from among the final group of choices

Filed Under: Book Design, Cover Design, Social Media Tagged With: Author 2.0, blogging, book cover design, Joanna Penn, Pentecost, self publishing, The Creative Penn

Top 8 Cover Design Tips for Self-Publishers

by Joel Friedlander on June 9, 2010 87 Comments

Cover Design Tips for Self-Publishers include avoiding white backgrounds, reducing your cover to see if it’s readable, and other practical suggestions, such as avoiding script typefaces, how to find photos to use on your book cover, and a list of resources for self-publishers creating their own book covers.

Filed Under: Cover Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book cover design, self publishing

Project Focus: Dancing on the River by Mark Susnow

by Joel Friedlander on June 3, 2010 1 Comment

The cover and interior design of a self-help book by a life coach is shown in sample cover and interior design to follow the design process. Mark Susnow worked for almost a year to bring Dancing on the River into production, and the result shows the work that went into it.

Filed Under: Book Design, Cover Design, Interior Design, Samples, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book cover design, book design, Mark Susnow, self publishing

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