I’m so honored today to be speaking with Pamela Wilson, an award winning designer, about how to design your book, whether traditional book or ebook.
Make sure to check out Pamela’s new project Ebook Evolution, teaching you to effectively write, design, and market your ebook, a joint production with Sticky Ebook author, Kelly Kingman.
This is Part One of this interview. Part Two of How to Design Your Ebook is here.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How to design a cover for your book that grabs attention and makes people eager to read it
- How to choose the best fonts for your ebook
- How to use images to get your message across
- The best ways to lay out the pages of your book
Listen to the design expert now:
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Download How to Design your Ebook (MP3)
Links to resources mentioned in the interview:
Stock image resources:
Free:
Inexpensive:
More expensive:
Software for making 3D cover images:
OpenOffice Suite:
Picnik online photo retouching:
Part 2 of this interview is coming up soon where Pamela tells us:
- How to hire a designer for your book, questions to ask and what to look for
- What tools you can use if you want to design your own ebook
- A sneak peak at the Big Brand System, where she will walk you through everything you need to know to design your books and create powerful marketing materials to promote it
Pamela Wilson has been helping small businesses create effective marketing materials since 1987. She’s received many awards for her work over the years. Her favorite accolade, though, is hearing that the event she did the marketing for had more turnout than ever before, or the product she helped re-position beat all previous sales records.
Her newest effort is the Big Brand System. It’s a blog that helps small business owners learn design and marketing basics so they can create some of their own marketing materials.
Her Big Brand System course launches soon, and it will be a hands-on environment where students can learn marketing and design basics and get their questions answered. People enrolled in the course will get access to templates they can use for common marketing items: brochures; website headers; stationery; e-books and more.
Pamela believes that no one is more passionate about marketing a small business than the owner of that business. With some basic training, anyone can learn enough to craft effective and beautiful marketing materials that reach out and grab the attention of the market they want to sell to.
Follow Pamela on twitter @pamelaiwilson
What would you like to learn about designing your ebook?
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Look at all those great resources linked here!
And great interview too Carole. You’re getting good at these
I can attest that BoxShot3D is awesome. I love it. I use it for more than just boxes or ebook covers. I can make a pretty graphic, throw it in there and make it ‘pop’ that much more!
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Thanks, Shawn. Pamela is certainly full of wonderful information. And it’s to her that we need to send thanks for those great resource links. I can’t wait to try out BoxShot3D for myself!
Wow! This is really excellent ladies! Well presented technically and great questions and answers given.
I’m doing an ebook as a volunteer project and you clarified the direction I need to go in with fonts and format.
All the best with your course launch Pamela. I’m positive I will be jostling with many others to be the first in line! Please hurry, I need a template! : )
Marlene, you and I can get in front of the line and hold off the hungry hordes till Pamela is ready for us. Then we’ll take a deep breath and spring through the doors first! I am eagerly waiting, too.
Just wanted to add http://graphicriver.net/ to the resources of cheap, quality, royalty-free images.
Thanks for the interview. I enjoyed it!
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I started a new ebook yesterday. This information is timely and useful. Thanks Carole and Pamela!
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Wowsa, great audio! Thanks Carole and Pamela for such rich information. Can’t wait to hear Part 2. (Does this mean I have to redesign all my ebooks now? LOL!)
I’m about to work on my first e-book, so this info came at a great time! I’m a designer myself, but I really appreciated the clear break-down of information. Thank you!
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Awesome interview. Thank you both. Very, very, very informative.
This is another great blog. My writers’ group is doing a presentation on Ebooks next month. I’m going to point them to your blog. Great, timely information.
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