As a design educator, I'm often asked to critique book covers. The most common stumbling block is typography. Here are some simple tips for designers and do-it-yourselfers. 1. Title text often tends to crowd the space. Ideally it should either sit comfortably within the cover and have some breathing room, or alternatively, it should expand past the margins altogether and … [Read more...]
Getting Your Book Ready to be Noticed
So…You’ve done the final edit. Now what? Among the many steps you still have to take is: page design. Page design? Big deal you might say. What I need is a great cover for my book. Your potential reader has perhaps 5 seconds to look at your cover. Maybe 10 seconds or more to read the back of your book, before deciding if they want to open it and scan the first few … [Read more...]