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		<title>I’ve About Had It with Book Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I’ve about had it with book design. Or a particular kind of book design. I don’t even know whether to call it bad design or what, but this book I’ve been trying to get into has finally driven me away with a headache and a very tired feeling in my eyes. At the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tianobookdesign.com/blog/?p=293</link>
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		<title>Tschichold: One &#8230; More &#8230; Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Late one night during this past week I was reminded of the torturous times I spent reading of Jan Tschichold, his work, and his own writings, when I found Alex Charchar’s piece, “The Secret Canon &#38; Page Harmony” on the blog Retinart. I say “torturous” because I have all kinds of mixed feelings about him, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tianobookdesign.com/blog/?p=290</link>
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		<title>I ♡ Designing and Typesetting Self-Publishers’ Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time out I may have sounded a little like the stern lecturer or a schoolmarm, admonishing self-publishing authors with my short list of “shoulds” for their success. But I return this time to make clear that working on self-publishing authors’ books beats working for traditional publishers in many ways. That is not to say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tianobookdesign.com/blog/?p=288</link>
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		<title>How to Succeed as a Self-Publisher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve read a lot on blogs and Twitter recently about the question of whether self-publishing is just another name for “vanity publishing.” A little deeper is a discussion on Joel Friedlander’s The Book Designer blog, “Top 10 Worst Self-Publishing Mistakes—Explained!” A lively conversation, it takes in the “Does self- equal vanity- question.” But, with an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tianobookdesign.com/blog/?p=261</link>
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		<title>I’ve Been on Hiatus Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From this blog, that is. I have five books in progress as I write this. Tuesday I completed the first pass, over 600 pages, of a nurse practitioner’s textbook. After that I zoomed into correx—the corrections and author’s changes—for a 1,000+ page novel, which I had begun while working on, and alternated with, the nurse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tianobookdesign.com/blog/?p=258</link>
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		<title>Seems Like Old Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing in what has become the busiest year of my life so far, and certainly the most successful in my career as a freelance book designer/layout artist, I am about to begin another “straight layout” job. That is, where I am provided a template and make some other designer’s pages. This is, you might say, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tianobookdesign.com/blog/?p=198</link>
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		<title>New Tech and eBooks Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To recap: my first experience noodling at the making of an eBook left me cold. So the arrival of Adobe’s Creative Studio 4 and its direct-to-EPUB capability was welcome—even though I did not upgrade to CS4. And with the coming of CS5, an upgrade I have already ordered, I hope the InDesign-to-EPUB path is even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tianobookdesign.com/blog/?p=196</link>
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		<title>Another One That Got Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed the initial design and layout of my first medical novel. Although only the first pass is complete, with corrections and changes sure to come, the best part of the creative bump is likely over. I had begun two other books while working on that novel. And I fielded other inquiries in a typical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tianobookdesign.com/blog/?p=194</link>
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		<title>Project Juggling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe I’ve said and written it before: I like working on two books at once. They each provide breaks from the other, thus keeping me fresh and the work seeming new—or newer than it would otherwise seem. Having worked this way a few times in the past, I know it is rare for two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tianobookdesign.com/blog/?p=183</link>
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		<title>6 Things a Freelancer Needs to Be</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back I read something called The Cohen-Miller Report: The 6 Core Attributes That Make a Team “Click”.  The thinking impressed me, how it distilled the traits necessary to prepare a creative team for success. The way Emily Cohen expressed it, While there are many important aspects that influence a great team … six [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tianobookdesign.com/blog/?p=173</link>
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