Dilemma? Well maybe more of “am I ready to or do I even have to … do it all?” question. Technology is keeping us book designers on our toes as it does with many other professions. I’ve seen solo designer businesses now create the look of a “company” that offers the variety of services that [...]

Book Design: Use of Cartoons MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE!! Your book cover is more than you see…it’s what you think as well. More than once a new publisher has come to me with a cartoon for their cover ‘because all the other books in the catagory’ had used a similar image so it must [...]

I like to keep up on what’s going on in the industry… sometimes I find an article that is interesting. Since there are so many things happening with the book, ebook, reader world of publishing I thought I’d pass this along to you. Publishing’s Ecosystem on the Brink: The Backstory Remember, do something every day [...]

Tuesday, April 17th 2007 Tomato Soup Cake… my Sons’ favorite! Other related subject: Great Receipe! Tomato Soup Cake (1971) My son Jasen’s traditional Birthday Cake Mix the following: 2c flour 1c sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground cloves 1/2 tsp allspice 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda Add the following: 1 cup [...]

What is it about the prospect of having to sell and promote our new book design that makes us think we don’t know anything? We wake up to the process of sales every day. It begins with us asking what we’re going to wear and progresses into who we talk to at work. The process [...]

Tuesday, March 20th 2007 This may seem off subject for my blog but I have the toughest time with things like insurance and lawyers and corporation procedures… so when I was told I needed to have general libility insurance I litteraly freaked! To put it mildly. The lawyer who told me, referred me to an [...]

Another conversation happened this morning with a loverly person about the title and image to use for their book cover. Over the years I’ve found that this is something that the client brings with them parts and pieces to the discussion and I play the devils advocate and asker-of-many-questions that will lead us to the [...]

May the new year bring you many new experiences. What was last year about for you? What was the most exciting experience? Did you write about it? Is it part of your existing book? Books come from all around us, the places we go, the things we do, the people we know. Start that book [...]

Case Study: Client looking for as teleseminar/ conferencing service that will allow them to pre-tape a hour-long interview and then schedule it and play instead of doing a live interview. There logic was that a live interview has lots of unnecessary chatter that they wanted to edit out and give their listeners only the “good [...]

I attended BEA with two intentions. First from the view of a Book Cover & Interior Designer and the second from the view of a new Author. I noticed myself falling back into the comfort of the first since this is known to me and the way I make a living. I found many interesting [...]