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
- Speaking Circus
- FSA Speaker Academy Manual
- The Secret Life of My Father
- Stand & Deliver
- Excerpts From an Era
- It’s Raining Clients
- With this Last Thought
- A Hebraic Obsession
- From a Machine Shop to Gulf + Western
- StorySailing
- Product Process People
- Currents
- Writing for Robots and Readers
- The Money Mindset Book
- True Worldly Things
- Honey I’m Home
- Waves
- The Story Story
- The Ethical Speaker
- Slowing Down
- Living on the Outskirts of Heaven
- The One-HOur Guide to Self-Publishing
- The Raspberry Man
- Buy Right. Eat Right. Feel Right
- Monergy
- Death of the Guitar
- The Foreign Consuls Among Us
- It’s been Great!
- Whose Pot is This?
- Walk & Roll
- Speak Inside the Box
- The Health of Your Wealth
- GOD’s Biblical Evolutionss
- The Greatest Gift
- The Story Formula
- What I Couldn’t Tell You
- Just Go!
- Oh Palestine
- Lights Down
- White Mythology
- With Malice Toward None
- The Wisdom of 76
- Riler Town
- The Engaged Sales Conversation
- Fear of Love
- Strings: A Guitarmaker’s Journey
- The Dance
- The Blue Monk
- The Writer’s Guide to Powerful Prose
- An Instructor’s Guide to Teaching Military Students