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Paperback Publishing Quality Checklist
3 min readDec 27, 2023
Behind the Scenes
Taking you behind the scenes of my author journey. After the camino, or hike, after the writing, the editing, the rewriting, the formatting, comes the publishing. And after that comes the checking of the physical book
The Front Cover
Check the look and feel of the cover. Because people do judge a book by a cover!
- Is the title right
- Is the subtitle right?
- Is the Author name right?
- Is the colour right?
- Is the image popping?
- Is it matte or glossy?
The back cover
Check the look and feel of the cover. Because people do judge a book by a cover!
- Is the title right
- Is the subtitle right?
- Is the Author name right?
- Is the book description right?
- Is the Author descriptions right?
The Spine
Check the spine, because that’s how it will look when on a bookshelf.
- Is the title right