by Adam Robinson | Feb 13, 2018 | Production, Theory |
Putting out a book is like building a house—you need to start with good plans, and it takes a lot of work. And if you approach self-publishing with the amount of rigor it takes to build a house by focusing on the blueprints, hiring the right contractors, having...
by Adam Robinson | Jan 29, 2018 | Bookselling, Production |
File under production and distribution Barnes & Noble has announced an overhaul of their self-publishing platform. What does that mean for writers? How does their platform stack up against the other “Print On Demand” companies? If anyone is interested...
by Adam Robinson | Oct 12, 2017 | Production |
In 2015 I wrote a post about free image resources and how they can be useful. Here’s an update to that post: also check out Pikwizard. They reached out to me and asked to be included in this list. I flipped through their site and the images download with no...
by Allison Bolt | Jun 25, 2017 | Production |
You are familiar with the concept of a book. In fact, you are eager to transform your digital manuscript into this tangible form. You just need pages, a cover, and your story. Right? Surprisingly, the qualities that create a visually elegant and cohesive book are all...
by Adam Robinson | Jun 14, 2017 | Production |
How we went from all these words to what you see today (we asked a flash fictionist to do it). The old goodbookdevelopers.com was a handsome site (if I do say so myself)—but it was too dense. There were over 1200 words on the homepage. That’s more than anyone...
by Adam Robinson | Oct 27, 2016 | Production |
Did you ever see an awesome typeface and think, what is that, I want to use that? There’s actually a great resource through MyFonts (which is like Amazon for fonts) called “What the Font.” You just upload an image of the font and it analyzes its...
