{"id":13217,"date":"2019-03-01T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=13217"},"modified":"2019-03-01T08:53:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:53:01","slug":"about-being-a-book-layout-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/about-being-a-book-layout-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"About Being A Book Layout Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/S-J-Morgan-blog-Zena-Shapter-251x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/S-J-Morgan-blog-Zena-Shapter-251x300.png 251w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/S-J-Morgan-blog-Zena-Shapter-125x150.png 125w, http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/S-J-Morgan-blog-Zena-Shapter.png 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I&#8217;m over at S J Morgan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sjmorgan.com.au\/single-post\/2019\/02\/28\/Behind-the-Scenes-at-MidnightSun-Publishing---Part-Two\">blog<\/a> talking about being a book layout designer. I worked on the internal layout for Sue&#8217;s latest release, <em>Heaven Sent<\/em> (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MidnightSun Publishing (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/midnightsunpublishing.com\/shop\/\" target=\"_blank\">MidnightSun Publishing<\/a>, 2018), and she was fascinated to learn I was also a writer. So she asked me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How I went from being \u2018writer\u2019 to \u2018designer\u2019 \u2013 what&#8217;s been my career path?  <\/li><li>About the process and what skills you need to be a good designer.<\/li><li>How different is it, working on your own manuscript, to working on someone else\u2019s.<\/li><li>How I divide my time between my various roles and do I find it\u2019s difficult working to competing deadlines? <\/li><li>Do I describe myself as a writer or do some of my other skills take priority in a professional sense?<\/li><li>And much more!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gosh, how <em>did<\/em> I get into all this and how <em>do<\/em> I manage my time?! Read my answers over on Sue&#8217;s blog <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sjmorgan.com.au\/single-post\/2019\/02\/28\/Behind-the-Scenes-at-MidnightSun-Publishing---Part-Two\" target=\"_blank\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All about being a book layout designer, and how that fits with being a writer!<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/about-being-a-book-layout-designer\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"All about being a book layout designer, and how that fits with being a writer!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writer-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/S-J-Morgan-blog-Zena-Shapter.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13217"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13227,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217\/revisions\/13227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}