I frequently get asked what exactly a book designer does when it comes to book production. On this website, we talk frequently about the need to hire publishing professionals, to get your book properly edited and designed to compete in the marketplace. If you’re...
When diving into the world of books, we often focus on the captivating narratives and insightful information found within their pages. Yet, there’s a hidden gem that often goes unnoticed but is equally crucial to the reader’s experience: the back matter....
Many readers, myself included, like to annotate books as they read, and they usually do this in the book’s margins. Some nonfiction authors, however, use sidebars to make their own annotations; they provide additional context, anecdotes, or graphics to enhance the...
I still remember the first To Kill a Mockingbird book cover I saw. It was in eighth-grade English class and it was the mass-market paperback edition with the lavender border on the cover. As a 13-year-old kid I don’t think I entirely appreciated or even understood the...
What makes cookbook covers appealing? Great-looking food, of course! You can have the best-tasting food in the world, but without quality food photography and staging, the food might as well be grayscale on a white background. When it comes to cookbook covers,...
