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  • Consider these details before formatting your book!

    When you start typesetting (a.k.a. formatting) your book, the tiny details that are so easy to overlook are some of the most critical to ensuring a comfortable, pleasant reading experience! Here are some to keep in mind, plus publishing standards or suggestions for each one. Typeface (a.k.a. font) Fiction is typically typeset in a serif Keep reading

  • A Roadmap to Marketing Your Self-Published Book

    This isn’t your typical “here are five marketing tactics to try”. This is more of a roadmap, a start-to-finish outline to find your readers. If your book is already published, you can use this as a checklist to see if you skipped an important step or need to revise a strategy. Keep reading

  • How to Conceptualize Your Cover Design (and how not to)

    What’s spookier than the thought of coming up with a cover concept that’ll sell your book? Um… not much? Maybe finding the right cover designer or coming up with a marketing strategy… But what if I told you the process of brainstorming ideas for your cover will ultimately help with marketing too, so you can… Keep reading

  • 10 Easy Hacks to Polish Your Book Cover’s Text

    One of the worst offenders on self-published book covers tends to be the text. I’ve seen a thousand covers with great photomanipulations or artwork, only it’s (to be perfectly frank) totally ruined by the way the text is added. Keep reading

  • Welcome to Kairos Book Design – an introduction

    Hello! And welcome to Kairos Book Design. Whether you’re an author who for whatever reason has to make your book cover yourself, or you’re an aspiring book cover designer looking for some guidance to level up your skills, you’ve come to the right place.  Keep reading