by Kayla Cook | Apr 26, 2022 | Book Cover Design, Book Design, Finding & Evaluating a Designer
If you’ve been around this blog for very long, you’ve undoubtedly seen us discuss all of the ins and outs of self-publishing many times. Perhaps you’ve even been hard at work completing your own manuscript, long awaiting the day when you’ll be ready for the next step.... 
by Michele DeFilippo | Sep 20, 2020 | Book Cover Design
Self-publishing is a personally rewarding and exciting endeavor for most indie authors, not to mention a good business strategy. The problem is when the final product ends up looking self-published. If a book looks self-published, reviewers, retailers and buyers will... 
by Michele DeFilippo | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Cover Design
Indie authors understand that good cover design matters. Yet many don’t understand what professional book designers bring to the process; they don’t know what a book cover designer does. In short, a book cover designer will: Research your book’s genre Research the... 
by Michele DeFilippo | May 5, 2020 | Book Cover Design, Book Printing
By Sandy Gould, Direct Sales Manager, Color House Graphics Originally published on the Color House Graphics blog as Book Binding Styles. Whether you are putting together a softcover book or a creating deluxe hardcover edition, the same quality and attention to detail... 
by Michele DeFilippo | Jul 2, 2019 | Book Cover Design
I’ll just say it upfront: of all the cover design mistakes authors can make, the number one mistake is to design the cover themselves. Mistake #1: Do-it-yourself Covers If you’re looking for cover design tips, you’ve come to the wrong place. I know, affordability is... 
by Michele DeFilippo | Feb 27, 2019 | Book Cover Design
A book series is more than one book tied together by a common theme and author. If fictional, the series may continue a story with some of the same characters. Alternatively, the books may be tied together by a location or a genre. Or, the only thing the books have in... 