One of the fun parts about starting a publishing line within The Youth Cartel has been figuring out how the heck to make a book. Before joining Marko in this start-up I’d never owned InDesign, barely knew how to use Illustrator, and was still a novice at Photoshop. And I had a Kindle… but making a book and then converting into a book I could sell on Amazon Kindle? Pfft… yeah right.
Long story, short. These are skills I’ve been learning on the fly. I’m a big fan in learning new stuff and I’ve really enjoyed becoming a student of the process. And, if you don’t know much about how books are made, you need to know it’s a process. My hope is that we don’t just create stuff that people like… but we also reshape how the process of making a book is done.
An area of our publishing that’s completely fallen to me is to design book covers. And you know what? I’m having fun with it. Here’s a look at the covers I designed in 2014.
THINK Volumes 1-2
Woo
Teaching Teenagers in a Post-Christian World
A Woman in Youth Ministry
One Body
The Jesus Gap
The Audacious Seven
I did this one today!
A Youth Worker’s Field Guide to Parents
God Parties
All of these are available for sale at our online store.
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