by Joel Friedlander | May 12, 2014 | Cover Design, E-Books & Readers
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during April, 2014. This month we received: 77 covers in the Fiction category 17 covers in the Nonfiction category Comments, Award Winners, and Gold Stars I’ve added comments (JF: ) to many of...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 11, 2014 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
By Samuel Hawley If you are a regular reader of The Book Designer, you have probably seen our monthly e-Book Cover Design Awards. These posts showcase many books each month and provide examples of what to do and what not to do when it comes to having covers designed...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 8, 2013 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
As week 1 of NaNoWriMo draws to a close, authors everywhere are checking their word counts to see if they are keeping up the pace. If you plan to hit 50,000 words by the end of November, you’ll need to crank out about 1,667 words every day. By today (the 8th)...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 1, 2013 | Self-Publishing
Another November has rolled around, and that means it’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Every November, writers commit to creating a complete novel (or at least a first draft) and aim to produce 50,000 words in the process. That’s pretty scary in...
by Joel Friedlander | Oct 28, 2013 | Book Design
I had been working on a book with editor Sharon Goldinger of PeopleSpeak. This fiction author is fond of dropping ellipses into his dialogue. Consequently there were hundreds of them in the 300-page book. Some authors will just type three periods where they want an...