Not exact matches
We have a graphic
designer and someone who
books and edits the Baby Got
Booked podcast, and I have an assistant who also helps me with my schedule
as well
as content (she's just
starting).
My plan is to do some freelance work
as a
designer, try my luck
as a food photographer, keep on developing our apps, perhaps
start working on another
book and a bunch of other projects that I have sketched up inside my head.
Your
designer will discuss concepts that reflect the feel of your
book (such
as fonts, chapter
starts, title page design, etc.).
And that's how they came to write
Book Design Made Simple... it's the book they wanted when they were starting out as book design
Book Design Made Simple... it's the
book they wanted when they were starting out as book design
book they wanted when they were
starting out
as book design
book designers!
It's an amazing
book cover design video to watch the
designer start with a blank canvas (just
as we writers
start with a blank page)-LSB-...]
It's an amazing
book cover design video to watch the
designer start with a blank canvas (just
as we writers
start with a blank page) and all the work involved to create this beautiful
book cover:
Here is an article to
start you off from the
Book Designer, and more info to come for fiction authors
as -LSB-...]
It's nice to
start here because
as a
book cover
designer it really winds me up when it's not considered an important function by authors.
Be that
as it may (and don't
start me down the Snooki path), presumably the literary agents were gatekeepers of quality, who then passed their clients» wares to publishers, who further thinned the herd, resulting in a clumsy industry algorithm that spat out
books at the opposite end of the sausage machine — and the presumption was those
books were competently written, would be of interest to someone, and were executed in a superior fashion; professional cover
designers drew up art, professional editors checked grammar and punctuation and spelling, etc..
A: Our Editor - in - Chief, Sally Robertson,
started off
as a BlurbNation
book designer, then turned publisher.
Lulu will have a
designer create a
book cover for $ 130, and it provides groups of services like editing, design and formatting,
starting at $ 729 and going
as high
as $ 4,949.
As an experienced
book cover
designer, your prices should
start at $ 350 minimum, and go up from there.
This serves
as the
start of a creative brief you can give to your freelance
designer, to help them create an appropriate cover for your
book.
Usually they
start out
as freelance editors,
designers, or marketing people who have also published a
book or two they wrote themselves.
From time to time I've thought about
starting sort of a «writers» coop» site that could support aggregating information, allow
book production teams to form (editors,
book designers, etc.; there is a site already that does this, but it's run
as a business rather than by those directly involved).
I've openly recommended CreateSpace
as a strategy for many clients
as a test, stepping stone, even a way to enter the publishing world with the giant Amazon in play — but, and always a but in the mix — there has to be editing, get a professional cover done and yes, lay it out — don't do the template Amazon version... than have the layout
designer do the uploading — for less than $ 3,000 (most likely), you have quality cover design, interior, editing and you are rocking and rolling with the big boys — you get max percentage on eBook payout, you have print
books available on demand and you can
start marketing your work and words like crazy.
Most ebooks
start off
as print
books, so
book designers are still busy.
Taking the elongated form of the hanging wire works
as a
starting point, the
book's
designer, Michelle Nix of McCall Associates, has addressed the challenge of conveying sculpture on the flat surface of the page through a vibrant combination of inset images and full bleeds, varying indents, and a playful approach to scale.
Wendy is an interior
designer and a mother of four whose blog, The Shabby Nest,
started as a passion project and has evolved into a subsequent
book Decorating for Real Life and has been featured in national publications, like Country Living Magazine.