All my life I’ve been reading, reading, reading… but never paying any attention to a book’s interior design. Have you? Probably not!
This week my main focus has been on the interior book layout for Dragonflies at Night: More Than a Love Story. I sent Carol Coogan, my fabulous book designer, my manuscript as an MS Word doc, and she is using a program called InDesign to lay out the book in an orderly, yet elegant fashion.
There is so much to consider when laying out a book! Just think. There’s the copyright page. The dedication. A table of contents. Chapter numbers and headings. Book group discussion questions. A place for acknowledgements.Ā All of this, plus all 27 of my chapters which are divided into 6 sections, including a prologue, an epilogue, plus several “interludes” where the main character’s deceased mother shares some of the narration.
There are also the page numbers, the headers or footers on every page with my author name, and my desire to have some itty bitty dragonfly symbols here and there (still deciding where!).
It all has to flow seamlessly, of course, and I would be lost without Carol’s expertise in this gargantuan (to me, anyway) task!
The next time you start reading a book, take a moment to flip through the pages and admire the fonts, the page spreads, the tiny touches that make it easy to read and joyful to hold in your hands.
Dragonflies at Night: More Than A Love Story…
Soaring in to bookshelves on September 22, 2020.
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