Greetings! The light is at the end of the tunnel and the book is about to emerge from print to begin its journey. After the laborious cycles of copy-editing, read-aloud and proof-reading the book was sent off to the printer a couple weeks ago! Although I don’t drink alcohol, I think I could have used a strong drink that day to relax a bit and celebrate the hard-earned milestone! Now, we wait for the books to arrive, initially in my hands, and then yours. With some delays in supply chains (no surprise there I guess!) the paperback should be in

Greetings! They say “Do not judge a book by its cover“. However, the reality is that most of us do just that. Very often they say a prospective reader makes a split second decision whether or not to pick up the book based on… you guessed it, the cover! One of the most exciting parts of the publishing journey is to design and see the book book cover come to life. The book cover design includes visual elements including a book title and subtitle, illustrations or images and text with an attractive color scheme with spine formatting, back cover design,