You've finished a manuscript, but the illustrations are scattered across separate tools. Character sketches sit in one folder, diagrams in another application, the cover is being assembled somewhere else, and every formatting change creates another round of exports. The writing may be progressing, yet the production process feels like project management rather than publishing. Technical […]
You can have a strong manuscript and still feel stuck the moment you open a blank cover file. The title is set, the story is solid, and yet the thumbnail on Amazon still has to do the hard work of stopping a distracted reader mid-scroll. That's where cover design stops being a creative indulgence and […]
You can finish a manuscript and still feel oddly stuck. The words are there, the chapters are in order, but now you're staring at a blank space where the book's visual identity should live, and every choice feels expensive, permanent, and a little technical. That's usually the moment authors realize book illustration art is not […]