Book design is more relevant that one can think. When one says “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” the phrase should only be taken in the context of not judging a person by looks or physical appearance. However, when it comes to books themselves, it is quite natural to judge a book based on its entire packaging. This is the reason why book design is important.

Book design is defined as the art of incorporating not only the design, format and style but also the content and sequence of the components of a book to an organized whole. Hence, when one speaks of book design, one is not merely taking about the front and back cover; it entails everything about the entire book. It is true that the front cover is quite important; after all, a book is identified by its cover, as it indicates the title and the author.

More often than not, it is what makes a customer pick up the book and purchase it. The back cover is also part of the design; it usually contains the summary or description of the book. There are also times when it contains the author’s brief biography, or quotes from people or organizations praising the book.

The one thing seemingly overlooked in book design is the spine. What many people do not know is that the spine is an important element in cover design, just like a book’s front cover. The spine is the vertical edge of a book as it stands on a bookshelf. When books are placed vertically or stacked up horizontally in a shelf, the spine is the only visible surface that contains relevant information about the book, such as the title, author and publisher. Indeed, it is a very crucial part of book design.

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A book publisher is a powerful tool for many companies, who help in continuation and transmission of knowledge for the good of humanity. He also serves as a database to archive the events of life and history and various purposes of daily business.

To have a good , you need to do a comprehensive research on self-publishing companies, who deals directly with the topic of Print On Demand for today’s self published authors. Whatever fee you pay to your book publisher is a fixed cost by the number of pages and its format, and includes:
The color of the cover design (front and back)
The concept of binding color
The design of the color point
The structure and layout of text
Correction and verification of the text
The Internet publishing and website creation
Press releases
The application of local newspaper articles
The support at all times

A book publisher will help the authors to publish their poems, proverbs, quotes, letters or other documents to share original compositions with readers. Such texts can also be used to design a card of invitation, a letter of congratulations, a wedding announcement, a poster advertising, a product catalog, a calendar year or a sales brochure as a proposed presentation.

If you are a book publisher, you need to have marketing plan for the books you publish, similarly a book writer is also advised to create some marketing plan for their own book, so as to increase their chance of being published. It comes under the duties of a book publisher to make use of a large staff of editors, artists, copy editors, writers, and other members to alter the book according to the preferences of chief executive editor as well as that of author’s.

The final stage in the book publishing is producing or distributing the book, which can be accomplished using onsite facilities, or the publisher may go to a third party production company.

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There are many different categories for forex trading books. One of them is introductions to foreign exchange as well as money markets. Within this category there are a handful of top-rated books in which you should indulge. Philip Gotthelf presents the book Currency Trading: How to Access and Trade the Worlds Biggest Market which presents a grand overview about how to take advantage of the currency markets and any fluctuations therein. UK London Reuters Limited provides a grand introduction to financial education training through the publication of An Introduction to Foreign Exchange and Money Markets. Julian Walmsley presents International Money and Foreign Exchange Markets: An Introduction which functions as one of the most essential pieces of reading for any undergrad, or specifically MBA, student in the fields of finance, business, or banking.
Another essential category is fundamental analysis. R. Mark Rogers offers a Handbook of Key Economic Indicators which provides quickly accessed information which relates to U.S. economic indicators specifically for analysts as well as traders. This book includes data, tables, graphs, charts, as well as explanations for the inflation, consumer spending, and employment figures listed for each month. Louis B. Mendelsohn offers a more advanced Forex Trading Using Intermarket Analysis which offers applications of intermarket analysis for some of the most widely traded foreign exchange markets. It seeks to identify trends in prices and other market influencers. Another great offer is in E. Stansbury Carnes book The Atlas of Economic Indicators: A Visual Guide to Market Force which is geared toward professional investors, executives, as well as students and individual investors. It is a very handy and accessible resource which also includes graphs and charts. Jack D. Schwager and Steven Turner combine to produce A Study Guide for Fundamental Analysis which famously provides the foremost authority on the subject, offering insight on future trading in three different volumes.
In conclusion, forex trading books can cover a multitude of categories from the aforementioned to technical analyses, strategies for profits, basic understanding of the forex trading system, and other more intricate subcategories in the field of forex trading.

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Featuring: Birds On My Brush by Carole M. Lidgold – In April 1763, unknown artist and naturalist, Elizabeth (nee Symonds) Gwillim was born in England. She accompanied her husband, Henry, to Madras, India, in the 1800s, where she died in 1807. In London, England, in 1924, a Dr. Casey Wood, surgeon and ornithologist, discovered in an ‘out of the way shop of arts’, Elizabeth Gwillim’s watercolour paintings. Today, 2009, these painting, painted two decades before Audubon published his illustrious Birds of America, are part of the Blacker-Wood collection of Zoology and Natural History, at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. Prints of several of her painting of India’s birds are included in this novel.

About The Story: Birds On My Brush is a novel based on the few known facts of the life and untimely death of Elizabeth Gwillim. My character, Sarah Purcell, was born in the spring when birds were chirping the birth of their new offspring. As a child, and later as and adult, Sarah was obsessed with sketching precise details of the birds. She married William Cantwell, a barrister determined to live in the land of his boyhood hero, Robert Clive, and English hero in India’s development. Sarah’s younger sister, Rose Purcell, accompanied them on this journey. Rose’s tortured dream of death in India hampered her enjoyment of this new life.

Birds on My Brush Book Review: A compelling account of an unknown artist’s life!

The life and times of 18th-century wildlife artist Elizabeth Gwillim are shrouded in mystery and uncertainty. She was born in England in 1763 and moved to India with her husband in the early 1800s, where she worked diligently to perfect her art.

She never achieved public recognition in her lifetime and she died, an obscure, undiscovered artist, in her mid-40s; it appeared, for the longest time, as though her art may have gone to the grave with her.

Nearly two centuries later, Gwillim’s wildlife watercolours were “discovered” in a London, England art shop. Today, in death, Gwillim has achieved what she could not in life; her wildlife art, notably her precision sketches of birds, has been widely praised as among the finest of its era. Gwillim’s work now forms part of the Blacker-Wood Collection of Zoology and Natural History at McGill University in Montreal, one of Canada’s pre-eminent schools of higher learning.

Carole M. Lidgold, a Canadian writer fascinated with Gwillim’s life and art, has painted a fascinating portrait of Gwillim’s life in her new, fact-based fictional novel entitled Birds on My Brush. Lidgold has taken what is known of Gwillim’s history and has built around the edges, crafting a fully-realized novel from the sketchy framework of Gwillim’s remarkable life.

She has created a lead character, Sarah Purcell, utilizing the Purcell character as a standin for Gwillim, and producing a sweeping, engrossing tale that lovers of art and history will find both hugely enjoyable and dramatically memorable.

The story covers the artist’s life from the early years in England, through the productive artistic period in India, to the point of the artist’s comparatively early death. Along the way, this much is made very clear: author Lidgold’s fascination with Gwillim’s life and artwork shines brightly throughout the novel’s 280 pages. A particular bonus for readers is that Birds on My Brush offers up not only some factual context of the details of Gwillim’s life, but also some representative samples of her artistic work.

Lidgold is an accomplished writer, whose stories typically brim with life and vitality. Birds on My Brush offers something beyond that – an historic and artistic integrity that takes readers well back in time to contemplate the challenging life of an artist who produced first-rate work, but couldn’t break out from the prison of artistic obscurity.

The novel is a well-constructed triumph. It is a triumph that the artist herself could imagine only in her dreams.

Reviewed By Anonymous Reader

Book Details:

Paperback: 280 Pages

Publisher: Self-Published (April 17, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0968938116

ISBN-13: 978-0968938119

Genre: Fiction

Print List Price: $16.95

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Books by Carole M. Lidgold

History:

The History of the Guild Inn – ISBN: 0-9698244-8-3

Memories of Cayuga: Ontario’s Love Boat – ISBN: 0-9698244-2-4

Steamship Cayuga: Toronto’s Ship of Romance – ISBN: 0-9698244-3-2

Fiction:

Faces of the Night – ISBN: 0-9698244-5-9

Birds on My Brush – ISBN: 9780968938119

Children:

The Adventures of Inch Worm Willie – ISBN: 0-9698244-4-0

The Elf Who Made Snowflakes – ISBN: 0-9698244-6-7

Daisy Dee’s Party – ISBN: 0-9698244-7-5

(All of Carole’s children’s books are fun stories for children of all nationalities, from picture book to story. All three children’s books have pen and ink sketches with a colored laminated cover to withstand constant reading.)

Poetry:

Journey Into Christmas – ISBN: 0-9698244-0-8

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Just Released: Confrontation – Second Book In The Axe of Iron Series

In Confrontation, two calamitous events occur that pave the way for the hostile beginnings of an assimilation process between the Greenland Norse settlers and the natives of Vinland. The first mixing of cultures occurs when a woman of the Northmen, Thora, and Deskaheh the Haudenosaunee, marry. This union, accepted enthusiastically by the Northmen, opens a window into the native mind.

For all the people of this land the way is rocky and fraught with danger at every turn, but the acceptance and friendship that develops between the Northmen and the Naskapi, another native tribe, over an affair of honor, the eventual acceptance of a young boy of the Northmen by his Haudenosaunee captors, and a scenario that seems ordained by the will of the gods, makes it all begin to fall into place, as it must for the Northmen to survive.

Will this developing relationship allow the Northmen to remain in the homeland of the Naskapi, or are they doomed to failure?

The settlers must deal with that question on a daily basis. Standing in their way are uncounted numbers of indigenous peoples, the pre-historical ancestors of the contemporary Cree (Naskapi), Ojibwa (Anishinabeg), and Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Indians. From the outset, the warriors of these various tribes violently resisted the incursion of the tall, pale-skinned invaders. The overwhelming numbers of the native peoples in Vinland hold the fate of the Northmen in their hands. The success or failure of the settlement at Halfdansfjord hangs in the balance.

Axe of Iron: The Settlers – First Book In The Axe Of Iron Series

About The Author:

J. A. Hunsinger lives in Colorado, USA, with his wife Phyllis. He writes and promotes fulltime. Vinland Publishing published the first novel of his character-driven, historical fiction Axe of Iron series, Axe of Iron: The Settlers, on August 1, 2008. The second book of the series, Axe of Iron: Confrontation, will be released to the general public in the spring of 2010. The other four books of the series will follow annually.

Much of his adult life has been associated with commercial aviation, both in and out of the cockpit. As an Engineering Technical Writer for Honeywell Commercial Flight Systems Group, Phoenix, AZ, he authored two comprehensive pilots’ manuals on aircraft computer guidance systems and several supplemental aircraft radar manuals that were published and distributed worldwide to airline operators by Honeywell Engineering, Phoenix, AZ. His first published work for the general public, Flight Into Danger, appeared in Flying Magazine, (August 2002).

Book Details:

Publisher: Vinland Publishing

ISBN: 978-0-9801601-5-4

328 Pages

Print Price: $16.95

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Submission Date: March 2, 2010

His first book ‘Smoke and Murders’ is a fictionalized story of the murder of the Hodges family as discovered in the small town of Vinton, Virginia, on August 29, 1994. Most of the characters are composites of people known to the author and, except for the murders; most of the situations are made up. Fascinated by the sequence of events as they unfolded, the author could not get the crime off his mind, and over the years, Smoke and Murders evolved. Urged by family and friends to finish the story, the author hopes that it will spark some interest in the real story of a man he believes was falsely convicted.

Books In Sync Honors DouglasChandler Graham For Service To His Country In The United States Military.

Sequel to Smoke and Murders (“Three Trailers Down”) Is Here As Promised!

Three Trailers Down by DouglasChandler Graham is the extended story that began in Smoke and Murders.

Although this may be regarded as a sequel it is a complete novel. After the small town of Vinyard is about to settle down after the murders of an entire family, new problems arise to keep the gossip pot boiling.

The story follows the Lieutenant that ran the Vinyard police department and was caught and fired for multiple criminal offenses.

Intrigue, murders, sex and money drive just about all the characters in Three Trailers Down, at least, the more sophisticated ones. The rest take life as they find it.

Douglas Chandler Graham tried to get dozens of organizations to look at the arrest and trial of Earl Bramblett in the five years after his trial while on death row. All were overloaded with other cases they were working, which should give some indication of justice in America, or the lack thereof. High profile cases give the impression every fact is checked and all evidence is examined. In the dark courtrooms of America “justice” is whatever the court determines, the law be damned. A prime example of this is on the ten year old website allamosa.com.

There was no justice in that trial and it cost Bramblett his life.

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ISBN: 1-4415-5755-5 (Trade Paperback 6×9)

ISBN13: 978-1-4415-5755-1 (Trade Paperback 6×9)

Pages: 278

Book Format: Trade Book 6×9

Genre: True Crime/Biography & Autobiography/General

Print Price: $19.99

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Smoke and Murders by DouglasChandler Graham

This is a fictionalized story of the murder of the Hodges family as discovered in the small town of Vinton, Virginia, on August 29, 1994. Most of the characters are composites of people known to the author and, except for the murders; most of the situations are made up. Fascinated by the sequence of events as they unfolded, the author could not get the crime off his mind, and over the years, Smoke and Murders evolved. Urged by family and friends to finish the story, the author hopes that it will spark some interest in the real story of a man he believes was falsely convicted.

Book  Details:

Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Llumina Press (March 11, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1605942499

ISBN-13: 978-1605942490

Paper Back Price: $12.95

Hard Cover Price: $27.95

Genre: True Crime/Biography & Autobiography/General

Paper Back Price: $12.95

Hard Cover Price: $27.95

DouglasChandler Graham Author’s Pages On Books In Sync:

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Published author of Peace in the Storm, Deirdre Kelley Hall won awards for some of the articles that she wrote as a newspaper reporter in Southeast Arkansas for three and a half years. She returned to her native home of Houston, Texas where she has been employed as an ASE certified Automotive Service Manager for the last eight years. Early on she was a single parent raising three loving boys to manhood. She attributes her strength and perseverance, over coming great odds, to her faith in God.

Featuring: Peace in the Storm by Deirdre Kelley

Amy Alexander’s life changed in a way she could never have foreseen after her marriage ended. Fear became her companion when her ex-husband began threatening her children in a desperate bid for money to support his drug habit. While fighting emotional battles, Amy and her sons learn their strength is a prayer away. New relationships emerge and old ones are strengthened as they seek Peace in the Storm.

About The Author:

Deirdre Kelley works as a newspaper reporter in Southeast Arkansas. She has returned to school to further her education, seeking a degree in Journalism and English the Houston native became a single parent early on raising three loving boys to manhood. She attributes her strength and perseverance, over coming great odds, to her
faith in God.

Peace In The Storm Book Review:

Peace in the Storm by author Deirdre Kelley tells the often traumatic story of divorce from a drug addicted and abusive spouse. We meet Amy Alexander as she walks away from the courthouse and the battle to save her marriage. She is free of the violence and fear of her husband, Brandon. However she can’t help worrying about her future and whether she is strong enough to make it on her own and take care of her two sons.

Over the next several chapters we learn about how Amy’s children deal with an absent father and their memories of how Brandon hurt their mother mentally and physically. Fifteen-year-old Marshall seems to be the perfect son and student; hard working, mature, understanding, a good Christian teen. He steps into his new role as man of the house and is glad his mother no longer has to endure the bruises and the fighting. Like most seven-year-olds, Sean loves video games and playing with his friends. He struggles with the belief that since his father doesn’t visit, and yelled at him for no reason, that his father must hate him.

Peace in the Storm is well written with good character development and believable dialogue. Deirdre Kelley does a good job showing the stress and fear involved when dealing with a violent, unpredictable ex-husband. She also draws a clear picture of the joy of a new beginning, of rebuilding and reaching out to help others. Throughout her struggles, Amy discovers a great strength in prayer and the new friends she makes along the way. Just when you think the Alexander family will be okay, Brandon begins harassing and threatening the family for money to support his and his girlfriend’s drug habit, culminating with Sean’s disappearance one day after school.

Peace in the Storm is a wonderful work of Christian fiction. I understand that in difficult times, many people lean on their faith for direction. However, I occasionally felt the religious passages pulled me from this otherwise interesting story. I recommend Peace in the Storm to those who enjoy stories of faith-inspired strength and survival. I hope to read more from Deirdre Kelley.

Peace In The Storm by Author Deirdre Kelley

200 pages

AuthorHouse (May 16, 2005)

978-1420829808

Review Submitted by WR Potter for Reader’s Choice Reviews

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Peace In The Storm Book Details:

Publisher: Author House

Publishing Date: May 16, 2005

Paperback: 200 Pages

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1420829807

ISBN-13: 978-1420829808

Genre: Christian Fiction/ Fiction Inspirational

Print Price: $13.50

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Author’s Websites:

http://www.myspace.com/cachlyn

http://christianworks.blogspot.com/

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Our Written Voices

by Members of The Written Voice

This book is a collection of various short stories and poems written by members of ‘The Written Voice’.

The profits obtained from the sale of ‘Our Written Voices’ will be used to support ‘David’s House’, a non-profit organization that helps families with critically ill patients in the hospital.

About The Authors:

‘The Written Voice’ is a featured writing group on the popular website for mothers, ‘CafeMom’. Established in May 2008, ‘The Written Voice’ welcomes writers and readers alike and is comprised of passionate, talented, and supportive women. Collaboratively, members of ‘The Written Voice’ created Our ‘Written Voices’, a compilation of their original works.

Book Details:

Publisher: CreateSpace

Publishing Date: 12/14/2009

ISBN Number: 78-1449901103

Number of Pages: 248

Genre: Short Story Anthology/Fiction

Book Proceeds Charity

Book Print List Price: $11.34

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Submission Date: April 2010

Featuring: Caught Between Life & Death by Marcia P. Cole

What are you leaving behind for others to remember you by?

A life insurance policy?

A family heirloom?

In Caught Between Life & Death, Marcia Cole, believing herself on deaths edge, writes her will. Her son, Danny, has just returned from the hostile Iraqi desert and announces his newfound career choice. Concerned for her son’s obsession to be part of Hollywood’s rich and famous, the author looks deep within her own frailties to leave behind something more valuable than just a life insurance policy. Inspired by her son, the author cleverly finds a unique way of leaving behind a part of herself through a tale of wealth, poverty, and faith.

Caught Between Life and Death exposes valuable lessons that shed new light on old perceptions giving us new hope for old problems.

Caught Between Life & Death Book Excerpt:

It appeared as if I was caught between life and death when the paramedic placed the nitroglycerin pills under my tongue.

Nitroglycerin? I thought to myself, surely I’m not having a heart attack. Everything was a blur. I felt like Darth Vader behind this oxygen mask as I could scarcely breathe with this crushing chest pain. Despite all the commotion going on inside this body of mine, I was more amazed by the hub of the fire and rescue squads that caused more attention in the neighborhood than I would have liked. I could feel the eyes of curious onlookers peering at me wanting to know the obvious question, “What happened to her?”

“Wow, who’d have thought it, me riding in an ambulance causing people to part the road like the Red Sea. Lord knows I never saw this day coming. Aren’t I supposed to be too young for this?” I smiled within.

I wasn’t afraid to leave this world. As far as I was concerned, everyone I would possibly leave behind had somebody. I wouldn’t be leaving anyone alone. However, I will never forget the look on my son’s face when he arrived at the house to find the paramedics wheeling me out on the stretcher. It was a defining moment in my life. I glanced over and noticed a frightened boy instead of the usual jovial, confident young man. What I saw in my son’s eyes that day unnerved me to the core more than any health issue I’ve ever faced. I saw an indescribable fear in his eyes as his expression revealed a lost look of utter hopelessness. Danny appeared worse than I felt. Life withdrew from his face like the waters from the shore when the tide goes out. The light instantly went out of him. He looked about as different as I did to him. Apparently, I had more influence in my young adult son’s life than I realized.

Details:

Genre: Inspirational/Religious

Price Print E-book: $11.99

Date Joined Books In Sync: June 19, 2009

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Tate Publishing Book Purchase Link

http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-60462-877-7

Marcia Coles E-mail Address

Marcia1628@aol.com

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Submission Date: May 2010