Design tips
At Virtus Publishing, our goal is to provide guidance and assistance to authors to ensure that the highest levels of quality throughout all stages are achieved.
To this end, we provide this author resource section, which will include a wide variety of mostly short posts, focusing on various aspects of the publishing process.
These posts are based on decades of experience managing and producing publishing content.
David George
Director of Publishing
Virtus Publishing
Our tips
This includes tips related to interior text and cover design.
What Makes a Good Cover?
Creation of the cover for a book can be a difficult, lengthy, and at times, controversial process.
In the last post we looked at cover design. Nearly as important an aspect is the design of the interior.
For a recent title, the Virtus creative design team was faced with a dilemma.
An important aspect of the interior design is the font (or typeface) that’s selected.
What Are the Options for Printed Books?
One important aspect of publishing a book is the format: paperback versus hardcover, and size (known as trim size).