This is the second of five posts of e-book covers submitted for the September e-Book Cover Design Awards. Here are the other posts in the series: e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2011 Part 1 Fiction: e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2011 Part 2 Fiction...
I knew that the idea of an e-Book Cover Design Award was a good one when people started to submit their covers in the comments of the article, even though I said I was just thinking about it! So I gave in to necessity. Now I’ve set up a submission page, and...
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...
Case Study: The Sea Captain’s Odyssey by Marvin Shepherd Design Brief: The author retired after a long career as a safety engineer and a clinical engineer at the University of California Medical Center. Marv had a connection to the Buhne family of Eureka from...
In Part 1 of this series on Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers we looked at the specific items included on a typical book printing estimate from an offset printer. In this second part we’ll see how each item is specified when creating a...
