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As someone who is a visual storyteller and not a book cover designer, but who has had a book cover request land in her inbox this week, this made me laugh and terrified me in equal measures 🙈

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Hehe. You can do it!

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Optimistic and kind of you to say so. I’ll no doubt be sharing (crying and asking for wisdom) further down the line.

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Happy to help if I can 🙂

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I certainly appreciate that supportive kindness (and promise not to abuse the offer). Like all work requests that land in my inbox I try and keep it at arms length until it’s actually a legit job so for now I will be reading your archive and trying to absorb the wisdom you’ve already shared whilst waiting to see what materialises 🙂

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I appreciate that! And I think that's a good mentality for almost-projects. I've certainly been burned by getting too excited about something that didn't end up materializing.

Thanks for reading—I hope it helps!

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was wondering if u know anymore resources on kerning? in uni for graphic design and i have somewhat mastered photoshop but indesign is just so difficult to me🥲

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Here’s a game to help you practice and learn kerning 🙂

https://type.method.ac/

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This was hilarious and in some strange ways very relatable, as a freelance writer -- I guess a gig is a gig is a gig! LOL!

SUPER EXCITED for this new series, let me tell ya'!

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Ha! I'm glad to hear it was relatable :)

I'm excited too. I think you're gonna love it.

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Yup, this all checks out. Glad I’m not the only one who finds printers’ templates utterly baffling! Love how every single one will, without fail, introduce some new bit of obscure/made-up terminology that you’ll have to google.

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Oh that makes me so happy to hear, haha. I had one mechanical recently where the AD admitted the template was not only confusing, but flat out wrong.

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Love to see this peek inside the process!

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Love the notebook shots! So fun to peek inside the creative process.

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They are often far more ugly than this spread 🙂

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