Because of my love for the written word, I assist a limited number of bold authors each year.
Book cover design is available for authors who want to be different, classy, artsy, avante garde, unique, or remarkable. I also offer “old-school” book typography, guidance through the publishing process, and editing/coaching/encouragement on “the writer’s journey.”
- Design Qualifications: Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, 15 years of university design teaching experience, Adobe Site-of-the-Day Winner, Runner-up in Adobe Design Achievement Awards.
- Book Cover Design: If I design your cover, I will read all or most of your book so I can capture the essence of what it’s about. Final art is adjusted to production specs and prepped to print properly the first time.
- Book Typography is a specialty. This includes creating drop-caps by hand, use of typefaces specialized for book typography, classic page layout, and elimination of widows and orphans and runts (one word on the last line of a paragraph). Every paragraph and every page is inspected and adjusted to pre-digital standards. Compare a book you find in an antique store to one you find in a bookstore. Call me if you want your pages to “glow in the dark” the way they used to in the days of hot metal type.
- Developmental and Technical Editing is priced after I’ve inspected your manuscript. I’ll mark up a thousand words or so at no charge, and this will give you a sense of my style and value, the readiness of your manuscript for release, and what working together will be like.
For details about publishing services and endless, useful advice on writing, publishing, and book design, see http://theworldsgreatestbook.com
- The Story Formula
- Strings: A Guitarmaker’s Journey
- Riler Town
- Buy Right. Eat Right. Feel Right
- An Instructor’s Guide to Teaching Military Students
- The Dance
- Honey I’m Home
- The Money Mindset Book
- The Wisdom of 76
- StorySailing
- The Greatest Gift
- Monergy
- It’s Raining Clients
- The Writer’s Guide to Powerful Prose
- The Story Story
- Whose Pot is This?
- The Secret Life of My Father
- GOD’s Biblical Evolutionss
- Just Go!
- Waves
- The Ethical Speaker
- The Raspberry Man
- Lights Down
- From a Machine Shop to Gulf + Western
- With Malice Toward None
- Speak Inside the Box
- True Worldly Things
- Slowing Down
- Product Process People
- Oh Palestine
- The Blue Monk
- With this Last Thought
- Death of the Guitar
- The Foreign Consuls Among Us
- FSA Speaker Academy Manual
- The Engaged Sales Conversation
- Currents
- What I Couldn’t Tell You
- Living on the Outskirts of Heaven
- Fear of Love
- Speaking Circus
- Writing for Robots and Readers
- A Hebraic Obsession
- White Mythology
- It’s been Great!
- The Health of Your Wealth
- Stand & Deliver
- Excerpts From an Era
- Walk & Roll
- The One-HOur Guide to Self-Publishing