Here are 10 book cover design trends to help get your book noticed and sold.

This case study looks at how Insight Guides have updated their travel guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

Indie Author Dale L. Roberts conducted a cover design experiment on Fiverr which ended in success. Is it an option for you?

This case study looks at how Frommer’s designs their destination guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

This case study looks at how Marco Polo guides designs their destination guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

This case study looks at how DK guides have updated their travel guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover, including the use of contrasting colors.

This case study looks at how Rough guides have updated their travel guide covers. This review also includes design prompts for designing your own cover, including the use of contrasting colors.

Your nonfiction book cover serves one purpose—to get people to click for more details about your book and read the description. It is a main contributor to your book’s success, and helps you sell more books.

There are multiple options for creating a flowable ebook file to upload to Amazon KDP. Choose one of these paid or free tools or software to take your book from final draft to published.

Do you want to take a simple or complex approach for formatting your ebook? There’s many paths you can take, and there’s no right answers. Just what’s right for YOU!

This case study looks at how Moon Travel guides have updated their old style design to create a cover that is more indicative of a Lonely Planet travel guide cover. Includes design prompts for designing your own cover.

If you’re including images in your ebooks you don’t have to settle for single inline images. How about including some full page image grids to wow your reader?

Here’s some tips for choosing the words and terms to include in your nonfiction book’s index. So that you can print a paperback that your readers find easy to navigate.

Do you want a professionally numbered nonfiction but, but aren’t sure which pages get numbered, and which don’t? Here’s how to handle blank pages, and front and back matter.

Take the guesswork out of whether you should include images in your Amazon KDP ebook. Here’s a way to calculate the financial implications of choosing the 70% vs 35% royalty rate.

Check out this cover design case study from prolific, but lessor known travel guide publisher, Luster. See how they’ve incorporated niche norms into their covers, and what they could have done differently.

This case study looks at the different line-looks Rick Steves uses for his travel guides. He’s carved a niche for himself in Europe, and is a one-man travel dynamo. See what design tips you can pick up from his book covers.

The cover for my book A Turbulent Mind is in the top ten nonfiction covers of 2018 in Kobo Writing Life’s Cover Competition.

Here’s some tips about how I used PDF Index Generator software to create an Index in a new paperback anthology about Alzheimer’s and Dementia.

Here’s my paperback design diary for the page tab design I plan on using for the updated edition of my Bodrum Peninsula Travel Guide.

Read about my internal formatting progress and lessons of my paperback travel guide. This is day one of my design diary to help you decide whether you want to format your own book.

Nobody sells more travel guides than Lonely Planet. So when it comes to designing your travel guide cover, their covers should be the first ones you refer too for design inspiration. This case study article looks at the different line-looks they use for their guides.

I released A Turbulent Mind: A Poetry Collection of a Mother’s Journey with Alzheimer’s last year, and submitted it to Joel Friedlander’s monthly cover design award, and it won best nonfiction cover for May 2018

Are you ready to establish your subject matter expertise and earn passive income by transitioning from travel blogger to author, but don’t know where to start? This new self-publishing podcast will help you write, publish, and sell your books.

Authors of nonfiction paperbacks need to create a table of contents and a robust index. Here are the tools you can use to create an index for your paperback.

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing have announced the availability of Early Access features for Kindle Create, which is relevant to travel bloggers who want to include images in their travel guides.

Scrivener and Vellum have just announced an update to their software, making it easier to use these two programs together and preserve your formatting when compiling out of Scrivener into Vellum.

Does your book have a new cover design and now you need to choose the one you’re going to use to self-publish your book? Whether you’re working with a cover designer, using a cover design service, or designing your own cover you could end up with the same dilemma: “which cover should I choose?”

If you’re new to Kindle Direct Publishing and want to self-publish your own book via Amazon KDP but don’t know where to start, you’re in luck. Amazon have just created KDP Jumpstart, which is a streamlined, step-by-step process for self-publishing your book on their KDP platform.

Do you want to know what your Book Cover will look like in all the different display positions that are offered by Amazon? Bookalyzer is a free author tool that shows you.

I decided it was time to bring out a print version of Freewriting for Travel Writers. At the moment I’m working on the internal formatting and new cover, which you can see here.

Stepping through the process of cover design for my new book Free Writing for Travel Writers, I show you what elements we started with and how we built up the finished cover.

Get to know Vellum Joanna Penn chats to Brad Andalman, one of the co-founders of 180g, which produced my favourite ebook formatting…

I’ve created this reference post for the Vellum Artisanal Book Style to you with the decisions you need to make when formatting your book in Vellum.

I’ve created this reference post for the Vellum Meridian Book Style to you with the decisions you need to make when formatting your book in Vellum.

I’ve created this reference post for the Vellum Trace Book Style to you with the decisions you need to make when formatting your book in Vellum.

I’ve created this reference post for the Vellum Sudo Book Style to you with the decisions you need to make when formatting your book in Vellum.

Big week this week .. I finally finished gathering and compiling all of the updates to my Bodrum Peninsula Travel…

I’ve created this reference post for the Vellum Oxford Book Style to you with the decisions you need to make when formatting your book in Vellum.

I’ve created this reference post for the Vellum Kindred Book Style to you with the decisions you need to make when formatting your book in Vellum.

Here’s my reference page of Resources For Authors And Writers, and includes all of the invaluable tools that I couldn’t…

I’ve created this reference post for the Vellum Artisanal Book Style to you with the decisions you need to make when formatting your book in Vellum.

I’ve created this reference post for the Vellum Artisanal Book Style to you with the decisions you need to make when formatting your book in Vellum.

A trio of Cover Design Articles The following articles were featured in the London Book Fair Indie Author Fringe, which is…