I so love making books!
I mentioned to Debby here a day or so ago that I have been building an omnibus edition of the A Love Poetry Trilogy set of books and poems as a single volume, with a working title Alive Is What You Feel, just for the fun of it. A little more than just fun, actually. I have wanted to achieve a few things:
- A Jacketed cover template for a 9 x 6 book.
- A Case Laminate cover template for a 9 x 6 book
- Multiple collections laid out within a single book.
- A detailed working template for a poetry interior (6 x 9, as is my usual).
- To know that I can manage large book projects.
All good, so far. I’ve just received the first e-proof of the completed book draft back from IngramSpark. 328 pages
Revisions to do, but looking good, so far. No pictures yet, as there is work to be done, but gee, it’s a buzz!
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Frank Prem Poetry 
I love writing books, but I don’t much care for making them (except for covers).
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I have quite a lot more to learn about cover designing. I’m much more satisfied with my image-work these days, but font choices and text placement are a kind of artform I’m still coming to grips with.
Should be an interesting year of development coming up, I think.
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So, do I!
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There is an educational group called Domestika that I have occasionally done courses with. I think I’ll sign up for a couple of their deep dives into cover design, just to see what they’ve got. Not too expensive to play.
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I’ll be interested to hear what they have to say.
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Th eproof will be in the pudding, Liz. I’ll post anything that comes out of it.
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Sounds good, Frank.
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As a beginner, I am overawed by all this All credit to you for your successes so far, and looking forward to more
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Still many things I need to learn and work on, but great pleasure for me on the path, Claire.
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Yay for you Frank. And thanks for the mention. I am looking forward to reading. Yes, we as writers love the writing – but the publishing part, no so much, lol. 🙂
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I’m about to do a deep dive into cover design, Deb. There are elements of what I do that are not quite there – especially font choices and text placement. I’m happier with what I’m doing with imagery.
Will see how it goes.
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I look forward to seeing what you come up with. 🙂
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Will share, Debby. Thank you.
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And you were worried about what to do now that you are retired! I’d say you’ve accomplished a lot in a short time!
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It’s proven to be a non-existant problem, Janet. Thank you.
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