Category: Book Design

WNN Podcast: Jim Kukral on Self-Publishing Books Successfully

Why look for a contract with a big traditional publisher when you can raise your own money for an advance and control your project start to finish? Jim Kukral can’t think of many good reasons. I thought I’d begin podcasting with a bang! That’s why I decided to make my first interview with Jim Kukral [...]

Friday February 17th, 2012 in Book Design, Book Marketing, Self-Publishing | No Comments »

10 Tips for Prepping Your Manuscript: A Self-Publishers’ Checklist

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 printed. I say ”hopefully” because all too [...]

Thursday November 17th, 2011 in Book Design, Self-Publishing | No Comments »

Anyone Can Write a Short Book…and Publish It…Fast!

Did you think I disappeared? Did you think I simply forgot to write a blog post on Monday and possibly today, too? Nope. I’ve been busy. (Again.) As of today, I have sent off three short books to the printer, www.360DigitalBooks.com. I have upgraded my self-publishing activities from a booklet press and will now have [...]

Turning an E-Book into a P-Book with InDesign

I bet you wondered what happened to me when no blog post showed up n Monday. Well, I was a bit busy learning how to design a book in Adobe InDesign. I was going to try and hire a designer, but I had the program and I used to do a ton of design work [...]

9 Book Design Tips for Authors

Most writers don’t think about book design until it comes time to independently publish their books. They approach a print-on-demand publishing company and discover they need to hire a designer. Suddenly they are thrown into the world of book design.  They need a cover. They need an interior design for their book. They never thought [...]

Monday June 14th, 2010 in Book Design | 2 Comments »