Design Mom

Design Mom
Author: Gabrielle Stanley Blair
Publisher: Artisan Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1579655718

New York Times best seller Ever since Gabrielle Stanley Blair became a parent, she’s believed that a thoughtfully designed home is one of the greatest gifts we can give our families, and that the objects and decor we choose to surround ourselves with tell our family’s story. In this, her first book, Blair offers a room-by-room guide to keeping things sane, organized, creative, and stylish. She provides advice on getting the most out of even the smallest spaces; simple fixes that make it easy for little ones to help out around the house; ingenious storage solutions for the never-ending stream of kid stuff; rainy-day DIY projects; and much, much more.

Adventures in Bookbinding

Adventures in Bookbinding
Author: Jeannine Stein
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1610580214

Each project in this book combines bookbinding with a specific craft such as quilting, jewelry making, or polymer clay, and offer levels of expertise: basic, novice, and expert. Illustrated step-by-step instructions and photographs demonstrate how to construct the cover pages, and a unique binding technique, easy enough for a beginner to master. Each project also features two other versions with the same binding geared to those with more or less experience. The novice version is for those who have no knowledge of the craft and want shortcuts, but love the look. For the quilter's book, for example, vintage quilt pieces become the covers so all that's needing in the binding. Or if you're interested in wool felting use an old sweater. This offers great opportunities for upcycling. The expert version is for those who have a great deal of knowledge and proficiency of a certain craft - the master art quilter, for example. For this version, an expert guest artist has created the cover and the author has created the binding. This offers yet another creative opportunity - the collaborative project. Since crafters often get involved with round-robins and other shared endeavors, this will show them yet another way to combine their skills. No other craft book offers the possibilities and challenges that Adventures in Bookbinding does. Readers will return to it again and again to find inspiration and ideas.

Fiction 100

Fiction 100
Author: James H. Pickering
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-06
Genre: Short stories
ISBN: 9780131825871

International in scope, this collection contains fiction from the early 19th century to the present day, and features 130 traditional and contemporary works.

Make Your Own FREE Kindle Book Covers

Make Your Own FREE Kindle Book Covers
Author: Robert Stetson
Publisher: Robert Stetson
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2012-11-29
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1481088971

Book covers sell books. People don't read, they scan when selecting books. Catch their eye and increase your income with a better cover. You can publish your paperback for free! Create book covers for paperbacks as well as EBooks. This comprehensive, step-by-step, how to guide shows how to make that snappy cover for FREE.

Affinity Publisher for Basic Book Covers

Affinity Publisher for Basic Book Covers
Author: M.L. Humphrey
Publisher: M.L. Humphrey
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Sometimes you just want to put together a basic book cover for a lead magnet or a short story related to your main series. Or maybe, like me, you have the patience of a gnat and don’t want to wait six months to have a cover designed by someone else when the book is ready to go NOW. Or maybe money is tight and you’re trying to see if that book you wrote has any potential without bankrupting yourself. Or you’re ready to put that book out in print, but in your genre you know it’s not going to sell all that many print copies. Or in large print. Whatever the reason, you’re looking to design your own cover but you don’t want to go through the trial and error of figuring out a design software on your own. Well, good news, especially if you already read Affinity Publisher for Ad Creatives. This book is here to walk you through how to use Affinity Publisher to create three basic ebook covers: one with a central image, one with a side image, and one with an image that fills the entire cover. And then we’ll walk through how to take that ebook cover and turn it into a paperback for Amazon KDP and IngramSpark as well as a hard cover for IngramSpark. When you finish this book will you be able to create a book cover like the masters who charge hundreds or even thousands of dollars for their work? No. But you will be able to put together a nice, servicable cover that leverages stock photos. And sometimes that’s all you need. So let’s go. Take your self-publishing to the next level today. Please note that the print version of this book is in black and white but the ebook version has color images available if your ereader is in color. You can learn the skills you need from either version, but there are certain images in the book that are better viewed in color.

Judging a Book by Its Cover

Judging a Book by Its Cover
Author: Nickianne Moody
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351924672

How do books attract their readers? This collection takes a closer look at book covers and their role in promoting sales and shaping readers' responses. Judging a Book by Its Cover brings together leading scholars, many with experience in the publishing industry, who examine the marketing of popular fiction across the twentieth century and beyond. Using case studies, and grounding their discussions historically and methodologically, the contributors address key themes in contemporary media, literary, publishing, and business studies related to globalisation, the correlation between text and image, identity politics, and reader reception. Topics include book covers and the internet bookstore; the links between books, the music industry, and film; literary prizes and the selling of books; subcultures and sales of young adult fiction; the cover as a signifier of literary value; and the marketing of ethnicity and lesbian pulp fiction. This exciting collection opens a new field of enquiry for scholars of book history, literature, media and communication studies, marketing, and cultural studies.

Book Production

Book Production
Author: Adrian Bullock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136508449

The digital revolution has brought with it a wider range of options for creating and producing print on paper products than ever seen before. With the growing demand for skills and knowledge with which to exploit the potential of digital technology, comes the need for a comprehensive book that not only makes it possible for production staff, editors, and designers to understand how the technology affects the industry they work in, but also provides them with the skills and competencies they need to work in it smartly and effectively. This book is designed to satisfy this need. Book Production falls into two parts: The first part deals with the increasingly important role of production as project managers, a role which has not been adequately written about in any of the recent literature on publishing. The second part deals with the processes and raw materials used in developing and manufacturing print on paper products. Case studies are used to illustrate why and how some processes or raw materials may or may not be appropriate for a particular job. With expert opinions and case studies, and a consideration of the practices and issues involved, this offers a comprehensive overview of book production for anyone working, or training to work in or in conjunction with the books industry.