At Standoutbooks, we love the indie author. It’s hard not to – helping creative, enthusiastic person after creative, enthusiastic person get their book to market is bound to create a warm glow and a sense of affection. Despite that, we’re also the first to admit that indie publishing isn’t for everyone – it’s one of
Typography has endless importance to a book’s cover design. The fact is, your book’s cover design can survive (and even thrive) without photography. It can’t without typography. For this reason, it’s vital to familiarize yourself with how type is used in so many cover designs today and how to choose the typography that’s right for
Self-help literature, also known as ‘Therapeutic’ or ‘Philosophical’ literature, is a huge market that does a lot of good. Its writers tend to be experts in their field, either through educational or experiential pathways, who have distilled what they know into something that can offer help to their readers. These works can take the form
Designing your book’s cover can be so many things: a labor of love, an ego trip, an uphill struggle, but what it should be is an attempt to communicate. In this article, I’ll look at some covers of famous works and explore what makes them work (or what ensures they don’t) and what they can
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