In Brief: In book design we have to decide which style of pagination to choose: whether to keep widows and orphans or allow the bottoms of our pages to be slightly misaligned. This article presents both so you can make an informed choice. People often seem to divide...
In this previous article, we gave a breakdown of the different book sizes (or trim sizes) available and recommendations for which one to use for your book. Below we’ll recap what was previously shared about standard book sizes, along with popular POD and offset...
The vast majority of books are divided up into chapters. Whether they’re fiction or nonfiction, regardless of genre or subgenre, the chapter is the basic building block of a book. But what is a chapter, exactly? And what about chapter headings and subheadings?...
If you’ve spent any time on BookTok, you’ve likely come across the Magnolia Parks series by Jessa Hastings. And if you’ve looked any deeper at the series there, you’ve almost certainly seen videos talking about the change in book covers when Hastings signed with a...
What exactly is grammar? Grammar consists of words (morphology) and how we put them into sentences (syntax). Most people also put punctuation into the grammar category. There are two schools of thought when it comes to grammar rules: Prescriptivism: If you are a...
