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Book Design 101: The secrets of paper in self-publishing

In every first-time author’s life there comes a moment when someone – or a self-publishing platform’s interface – asks a very important question: what kind of paper would you like to use for y

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Book Design 101: How to prepare your manuscript to make your designer cry tears of joy

If you want to make your designer’s day, here’s a few simple rules on how you can prepare your manuscript before sending it off for formatting – four DO’s and three DON’Ts!

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EPUB accessibility 101 – and what does it mean for authors

How to make sure that your EPUB meets the accessibility criteria? And what does accessiblity even mean?

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6 formatting mistakes that make your book (layout) look self-published

The goal of correctly formatting a book is giving your reader a comfortable reading experience… but sometimes, you’re faced with a choice of “what will make the reader the least uncomfortable”

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5 ways to make your novel’s layout unique

A short guide to make your novel’s layout fun, unique, and eye-catching - with decorations, drop caps and small caps, and other methods.

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Book Design 101: File Formats You Should Know as an Author

Self-publishing means dealing with A LOT of different files – in all possible formats. Here’s short guide to all the textual and visual file formats that you might find useful as an author.

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"Moonblade" by Nicolas Stevens, a fantasy novel wi "Moonblade" by Nicolas Stevens, a fantasy novel with antropomorphic characters - book cover design and illustration. 🌙 

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I'm missing both urban fantasy and men in my digit I'm missing both urban fantasy and men in my digital painting portfolio, so... here comes "Ambush"!🪦Featuring a necromancer who can feel there's something creeping in the background and knows he'll have to deal with it, but man, he's tired. 😅 

This would have been a perfect Halloween piece, so I guess this year I painted a bit too quickly 😆 

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Non-fiction book cover design and illustration for Non-fiction book cover design and illustration for "The Faces of My Husbands" by Joyce Correa - @joycecorreaauthor - a memoir. 

Love the colour scheme and illustration style in this one. I had a chance to really stretch my wings when it comes to working with different styles this year!

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