Explorations In Reading, Writing, and Publishing
Putting words together can create Forms in a reader’s mind.
Yet, before the reader’s mind creates the Forms, the words are Content.
Reader’s would like to get a feeling of what the Content can potentially Form in their mind.
The cover of a book is the first connection between the author and the reader.
Book design is about covers but also about the typography—the Forms the letters take on the page—and a number of other design considerations.
The best space on the Web I know of to study all this is Joel Friedlander‘s The Book Designer.
A writer, even a self-published one, may not be the person who designs a book but they should certainly understand something about the process…
The quickest and most humorous way to grasp the essentials, that I’ve found, is to watch this video :-)
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Thanks for the link Alex. It was hilarious and very informative.
Sure, Barb, very glad you liked it :-)
Very nice. Will have to show this to my husband to help quell his fears on the presentation of his first book.
Can’t wait until my account is sorted out so I can join the chats on book island again.
Hope it works for him, Ann…
BTW, what’s you SL name?
It’s neffie. My name on here keeps changing from all the blogs i manage. one day i’ll get less lazy and clean it up.
Ah, Neffie!! Do hope we see you again, Soon :-)