How to Spot a Professional Book Shepherd: Questions to Ask Your Book Shepherd Before Hiring by Mary Neighbour
Use these questions to help you spot a book professional, a book shepherd, and make a good choice, by Mary Neighbour.
Use these questions to help you spot a book professional, a book shepherd, and make a good choice, by Mary Neighbour.
How do you spot a professional book shepherd. In this post, Mary Neighbour shares the telltale signs your book shepherd is a professional.
In this post by book shepherd, Mary Neighbour, learn the publishing terms you’ll want to know so you can publish your fiction or nonfiction book.
Book shepherd is a common handle for such an overall publishing consultant, though you’ve likely heard book doctor, book guru, and others. The best work within industry standards. Here they are…
by Guest Contributor · Published September 30, 2019 · Last modified September 26, 2019
If you want to hire an interior book designer, here are some important questions to ask. Part of an ongoing series by book professional, Mary Neighbour.
by Guest Contributor · Published September 21, 2019 · Last modified September 19, 2019
Of all the professionals discussed in these posts, an expert interior book designer may be the hardest to spot. Use this checklist by book professional Mary Neighbour to identify the diamond from the cubic zirconia.
Interior Book Design – When you bring your manuscript to a professional typographer, that person is an artist who will style the way everything appears on the printed page, and they will possess the education and expertise to do so.
In this post, learn the terminology that your interior book designer uses, so you can have designed a beautiful book. By author and book professional Mary Neighbour.
Here are good questions to ask cover designers as you interview to find the right one in our How to Spot a Book Professional series.
A professional cover designer must know how to work creatively with imagery, colors, and typography to create a cover that will help you sell books.
It behooves authors and publishers to understand some basics of the printing and binding processes that will deliver that gorgeous cover design into the world.
Arguably the most difficult part for an author in choosing a cover designer is to adopt an objective viewpoint.
To help you determine whether a freelancer is a professional—and whether she’s got the right experience for your book—you need to ask her questions to assess her level of experience and expertise, because you cannot spot a true professional just by looking at her.
Because a professional editor needs to know a great deal about the minutia of words, sentences, paragraphs, and storytelling, there are countless ways to spot a professional.
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