One of the more challenging aspects of book design is typography. Some covers are more about the font (the way the letters look) than they are any other design. I …
Cover Design: Finding Graphics
Book covers require both images and text. Tempting as it may be to Google and find a cute image, it can get you sued for copyright infringement. For your own …
Cover and Graphics Design Tools
Whether designing your own cover or covers for other people, there are plenty of guidelines as to how to design to genre, etc. (Techniques and tutorials are listed under our Cover …
Interior: Formatting Tools
When it comes to formatting for print and/or eBooks, however, the writing-focused software options range from so-so to a hard pass. Here’s where specialty programs come into play. I purchased …
Interior: Writing Tools
When writing a book, the first rule is to, well, write. Naturally, writing requires some type of word-processing software. The granddaddy and probably the most familiar word-processing program is Microsoft Word. It …