I recently had a chance to check out joel friedlanders preformatted book templates. If you like to use different fonts, you might like this article, too. Book design templates is a new program, website and tool created by joel friedlander to solve an emerging problem among indie authors getting an industrystandard, good looking book that sells using a word processing program. But you cant change the world with a book thats unpublished.
A matter of resolution, ebooks have 117 of the image information needed for print covers. Joel friedlander a personal site for the book designer. Joel friedlander the book designer recently, at a marketing conference i was attending, the leader asked us all to come up with our big why. The book designer practical advice to help build better books. By joel friedlander welcome to the e book cover design awards. This blog exists to help you get that book into peoples hands. Author joel friedlander suggests remembering this when designing. Thats why i created this free 24page ebook packed with tips, links and. By joel friedlander welcome to this issue of the carnival of the indies blog carnival. Joels articles appear widely in online and print publications. Turn your blog into a book, or book it, as author and book designer joel friedlander likes. Based on his book design experience, he offers comments on the submissions with specific suggestions on how they could be better. The following is a guest post from tracy atkins who along with the book designer, joel friedlander has developed a series of book design templates just for indie authors.
Thats why i created this free 24page ebook packed with tips, links and resources to help you reach the readers who are waiting for your books. As a book designer and author, his site provides insights, tips and practical information for the selfpublished author, as well as offering breaking news about the industry at large. Joel friedlander is a selfpublished author, an award winning book designer, and a blogger on a mission to educate writers in how to print, market and sell their books with confidence. There are many ways in which selfpublished authors can format their books. Now, im not saying youll ever be able to do that with ms word.
Im very grateful to joel friedlander, at the book designer, for taking time to answer a few questions about book design, especially as it relates to selfpublishing. How to make a professional standard print book interior with joel friedlander, the book designer the creative penn. Say hello to mr joel friedlander, the book designer. We also announce how the winning design for pentecost makes for a great book cover. Joel friedlander is a book designer, blogger and the author of a self publishers companion. Joel friedlander from gives us some tips on how to make.
The book designer practical advice to help build better. Im working on the next book in the maynely a mystery series maynely hidden. Hes a oneman information point for everything selfpublishing based. Read to the end for a discount code thatll save you almost 50%. Joel friedlander, one of the leading advocates for selfpublishing on the internet, draws on a lifetime of experience helping selfpublishers launch their books. Friedlander provides stepbystep advice and tips to help you create a retailready book.
Because of the challenges publishing a new book stirs, most authors today have decided to take the publishing aspect. Hes been launching the careers of selfpublishers since 1994 from his book design and consulting practice at marin bookworks in san rafael, california. This exercise was one of the most revealing ive ever done. If youre a selfpublished author, want to be a selfpublished author or just a writer in need of inspiration i found a great blog that may help you. How to design an ebook cover that hooks readers september 10, 2016. This hugely popular book blog, written by joel friedlanderwhos worked in the publishing and design industriesstrives to help people get their story out there. Joel friedlander, the book designer thebookdesigner on.
The man behind the site is a professional book designer and writer. Joel friedlander of the book designer, mentioned above takes care of the major details like typography and industrystandard formatting so you can add your custom text and be ready to go with a professionallooking book. Get carter is a jacobean revenge storybut not a tragedyof a smalltime london gangster, jack carter, on a trip home to yorkshire to bury his late brother, frank, and dig up the mucky truth surrounding his mysterious death. The book designer blog september 20, 2012 joel friedlander is a book designer, blogger and the author of a selfpublishers companion. Print book interiors follow industry standards of which, under normal circumstances, a selfpublished author would not be aware. Whether its advice on writing style, plot, typography, printing or distribution, joel has plenty to tell you.
Self publishing print books and interior book design. For new writers immersed and perplexed with the intricate world of selfpublishing options, joel friedlanders, a self publishers companion, is a tool they can utilize to clarify the journey and organize their goals. Betty kelly sargent is the former editorinchief of william morrow, author of seven traditionally published books plus two more that are selfpublished. Apr 7, 2020 articles from joel friedlander, the book designer. No matter what kind of book you want to publish, the advice, inspiration and downtoearth tips in this book will help you get to your goal. To complicate the matter, jack and frank, who was a squareliving bloke, ha ve been bitterly estranged for years. Joel friedlander from and i talk about the book design process and how the iterations work. Carnival of the indies issue including dave chesson, ron callari, and d. He is the founder of the selfpublishing roadmap, a training course for authors, and. Isbns dont matter as much as you probably think they do, but you might want to start owning your own anyway i was about to post an overlong response in a comment thread on joel friedlander s the book designer blog, but on reflection, realized what i was about to post wasnt a response, it was a blog entry in its own right. Change your author blog into an author website the book.
For resources, you cannot do better than this site. For the month of october, there were 99 book covers submitted for the category of. If you have a blog, theres a high likelihood theres a book in there somewhereor at least the beginning of one. Indeed ranks job ads based on a combination of employer bids and relevance, such as your search terms and other activity on indeed. Beta readers hub is a source blog for beta readers. The imperative this createsboth for me, in making sure these books get published properly, and for you, to make sure the story that only you can. Let me go through the individual points provided by mr. Joel friedlander on book cover design for indie publishers. Hes been launching the careers of selfpublishers since 1994 from his book. Joel friedlanders book design templates provide sizing, layout, and. Joel friedlander author of the selfpublishers ultimate.
He covers all sorts of topics including ways to become. Recently, at a marketing conference i was attending, the leader asked us all to come up with our big why. His name is joel friedlander and he does a lot for those of us in the selfpublishing world. Joels influential the book designer blog not only reflects joels own extensive expertise and experience, but it leverages the comments and. Joel runs the popular blog at where hes helped thousands of authors create books that readers really want to buy. I finished writing two other books before setting sail on the good ship maynely hidden. This edition is for submissions during march, 2020. He started a blog, the book designer, which focuses on elements of book design like spacing, margin, typography and layout. The book designer features more than 1,550 articles on everything from writing and editing to publishing and marketing your work, all from the. He has won the aiga 50 books of the year award for his work at aperture publishing, and the printing industries of america gold award for his book design and production. In 2010, at 62 years old, joel friedlander decided to get back into the industry he left many years prior independent book publishing. Joel friedlander is a award winning book designer and blogger.
How joel friedlander started his book design blog case study. I keep thinking of all the people i know who have been affected. Joel friedlander is an awardwinning book designer and one of the internets leading experts on selfpublishing. Joel friedlander is the proprietor of marin bookworks in san rafael, california, a publishing services company where hes helped launch many selfpublished authors. Hermann zapf, a legendary type designer jds writers blog. Book design includes not only the graphic design of the front and back cover, but also the layout and typographic design of every page within your book. Book layout made easy with a professionally designed word. One of these other books was written, edited and submitted in one month i was inspired. He plans to publish a book about himself to settle some scores and restore his tattered reputation. Joel friedlander, veteran book designer, publisher of the book and author of over 700 helpful articles for selfpublishers, just launched a new service offering affordable, professionally designed templates that allow you to produce a polished book project with microsoft word. He blogs about book design, writing and selfpublishing at.
What i am saying is that you can have an awesome printed book for little to no cost. Im always looking at fonts, especially when im working on one of my childrens books. Indeed may be compensated by these employers, helping keep indeed free for jobseekers. So this article by joel friedlander from the book designer, stood out for me. My good friend jacqueline church simonds of beaglebay inc. Kaye and many others joel friedlander, the book designer. Fortunately, joanna penn on the creative penn hosts book designer joel friedman in the video interview, how to make a professional standard print book interior with joel friedlander, the book deisgner. M4 cp book cover design part 1 an odyssey reimagined.
How to make a professional standard print book interior. Joel friedlander of the book designer has published the results of last months ebook cover design awards. Each is designed for a specific purpose, such as nonfiction, memoirs. Hawthorne brings his own agenda to the hunt for ms. Simple things, a christian christmas middlegrade novel, and for adult. Joel is the proprietor of marin bookworks in san rafael, california, a publishing services company where. Bookbaby asked selfpublishing expert joel friedlander to write the definitive guide to producing a great printed book. No writer himself, this modern sherlock holmes needs a watson to follow alongside as he brilliantly solves the murder of diana cowper, revealing his genius to the world. But you cant change the world with a book thats still on your hard drive or in a box under your bed. Joel friedlander, the book designer writers change the world one reader at a time. So it is the responsibility of your book designer or you, if you choose to design your book yourself to ensure that the details of your book lead your future readers to your book, give off a. As blogger joel friedlander comments, people who have just selfproduced their first book have a lot of trouble visualizing just how to a get that book out onto the market, and b get that book noticed. Carnival of the indies blog carnival post for february followed by januarys ebook cover design awards for january on monday, the 24th.
1104 96 918 273 485 1394 246 176 1314 1242 825 1442 1416 440 1197 325 1440 1498 286 687 1564 344 678 523 151 793 1359 1246 981 781 928 470 271 945 934 1276 651 438 191 1482 712 571 1 39 644 196 399 287