Last year I wrote about the astonishing and great iA Writer for the iPad. This app provides a place to write that’s stripped to the bone, leaving a writer with nothing to do but . . . write. I use Writer every day, creating most of my first drafts in it with the...
Case Study: The Boy Behind the Gate by Larry Jacobson Design Brief: The author and his partner were the first gay couple to sail around the world. Larry, a former marketing executive, made a complete break with his former life and spent seven years traveling around...
Ed: This post is one of a series on Book Design for Self-Publishers. In the first article we looked at getting the raw materials for your book design project organized. In the second we looked at an overview of the book design workflow. With this article we turn to...
For some time we’ve been moaning about how bad most ebooks look, the poor typography, the feeble attempts to make ebooks look like printed books, which they do not resemble in any meaningful way. The litany of complaints from typographers and book designers...
Almost by definition, authors who decide to self-publish a book are new amateurs in the book world. Because of that, they often have expectations and reactions to books that aren’t conditioned by long-term exposure to “how the sausage is made.” For...
