How to Market Your Book Congratulations on writing your book! You're about to be a new author! Whether you've chosen a traditional publishing path or decided to self-publish, you will do most of the marketing yourself. YIKES - right? Well…
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Self-Publish with these How-to-Books Even if you're an experienced graphic designer, understanding the specific details necessary to self-publish a book can be challenging. The following books are fantastic resources for tackling the process of selecting fonts, page layout, cover design,…
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HOW TO BUILD A BUSINESS | LESSONS FROM 30 YEARS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP Have you ever wondered what tools graphic designers used before they had computers? This month I'm celebrating 30 years of business as a graphic designer, a published illustrator,…
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Bad Formatting Gives Self-Publishing a Bad Reputation We’ve all seen Word documents with such horrible, inconsistent formatting that it makes reading the document difficult. Transferring that bad formatting to a book feeds the poor reputation self-publishing has endured from…
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Dear Illustrator: You've been hired to create illustrations for a book! Awesome! Maybe it's a children's book, charts and graphs, accent illustrations, or epic cover artwork—whatever you're drawing, let's make sure you're on the road to success before you even…
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Tips for working with an Illustrator You've written a children's book—now it's time to create illustrations to bring the story to life! If you're not an illustrator yourself, you'll need to find someone with artistic abilities who can help. There…
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What is Brand Consistency? A well done brand needs to be consistent (even when you grow weary of it) because our customers expect it. They made a decision to purchase your product based on the whole brand, the look, the…
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Making Beautiful eBooks Can Be Challenging Becky's Graphic Design offers eBook design, formatting and cover design as well as print book design and layout. Digital book design is simple if it's just a manuscript, but when images are added the…
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Not all designers are the same One of the many things I love about my being a graphic designer is having the opportunity to work within so many different types of industries. My expectations of what they do is limited…
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Vector and Raster Images Each time I start working with a new client who already has a logo, I hold my breath. In a perfect world they will send over a vector image file (an .eps or .ai native file…
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