When we think about book formatting, we often think more about “typesetting” and how the words are organized on the page, but did you know that any color you add to your book’s interior pages is also considered book formatting? When you’re...
Self-published authors have ridden to fame and fortune on the wings of two technologies: e-books, and the hybrid print book production-distribution method known as print on demand. Each of these technologies reduces the financial risk inherent in book publishing. This...
Yesterday I described some of the steps I’ve taken over the last year in my quest to create what would be the perfect writer’s journal. Difficulties finding, evaluating, and specifying the materials in the journal took many months, largely due to the way...
I don’t know about you, but I hate disappointing people. Authors have something to say, a message to get out, or a story that has to be told. They may have products to sell, too, but it’s no small thing to put your name on a book and send it out into the...
Novelist Tess Collins entrusted me with the design of her new book, Helen of Troy. It’s a “quirky and lively retelling of the Greek legend” but set in small-town America. Copies of the book recently arrived at my office, and looking at them I thought...
