book design | book design
Feb.13.2013
Ever wonder what goes through a book designer's mind with a manuscript to promote? How a cover should represent a novel or nonfiction book?
The link below is a presentation by former Knopf designer Chip Kidd on just this subject.
Lesson to learn re: presentations - -Make the intellectual/...
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Nov.18.2011
If you want to self-publish your book, completing the manuscript constitutes only the first step. Then you need to take that (hopefully) professionally edited piece of work and have it turned into a book. That means you must have it designed (hopefully) by a professional designer and then...
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Nov.17.2011
If you want to self-publish your book, completing the manuscript constitutes only the first step. Then you need to take that (hopefully) professionally edited piece of work and have it turned into a book. That means you must have it designed (hopefully) by a professional designer and then...
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Jun.03.2011
Today I start the formatting stage for Endangered Memories. Seeing how the paperback version takes significantly longer to create because of proof ordering, mailing times, and the process scrutinizing the book for formatting errors, I've made the decision to release the ebook version of the...
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Apr.07.2011
Book contests. You see them advertised everywhere, sponsored by book publicists, advertising agencies, consultants, “book shepherds,” and even book publishers. The questions are: What will winning a contest do for you? And––how can you win a book contest if you enter it? I know something about...
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Nov.25.2010
If you have decided to self-publish your book, you must now consider an essential part of a successful self-published book: design. (As mentioned yesterday, editing also is essential. You can learn a bit about that here.)
Without a great cover and interior book design, your self-published book...
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Aug.30.2009
Vintage printed Dave Eggers' What Is the What clothbound without a jacket, and Eggers' McSweeney's followed suit (or suit-less) with Zeitoun. Now Penguin will release in October/November a beautiful series of clothbound classics, designed by illustrator Coralie Bickford-Smith. These are a relief...
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May.23.2009
Back when my first book came out, somehow I got the idea that it would be excellent to force my cats to pose with copies of it. A big box of copies of this new book came yesterday (which means it’s been released from the warehouse which = on sale very soon), so in the interest of consistency, I...
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May.21.2009
Boy, do I love my mail carrier. An Apple Pie For Dinner yesterday, Raising Hell On The Rock 'n' Roll Highway today...
Yes, Raising Hell is the UK version of Roadwork: Rock & Roll Turned Inside Out, the memoir I helped rock photographer Tom Wright put together. The book's been out since...
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May.14.2009
Supurna Banerjee, my editor at Holt, sent me a batch of books yesterday, and they are super super super awesome looking. The book is designed by Rebecca Seltzer, and the new design has a glossy treatment on the title lettering that’s hard to see in pictures but looks great in person. People have...
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