05/03/2026
Happy World Book Day!
I remember when WBD was also a collab with publishers who produced special editions of books to hand out, to encourage reading. There was a social group online where we shared ideas and it was quite a giddy day.
It passes me by now though kudos to the parents doing Where's Wally this morning. My neighbours children walked past me and Molly. We did the 'pretend not to notice .... oh there you are!' thing.
Currently I have 10 books at different stages of design and production in my designer life, with publishers and self-publishers across non-fiction and education. This brings me joy!
We book designers do more than fonts.
- we make it easy for your readers with secret super power interior design as it supports the text and guides, but readers notice if it's wrong - think a poor point size, wrong font for the genre, huge margins, text lost between the gutter (the binding) and long, exhausting, line lengths.
- we create flawless PDF files for print because there's nothing so pants as endless messages from IngramSpark and KDP with file errors and we'll deal with the niggles too
- we take off the load so that you can plan your speaking events, build up an email list, write the next book, plan the book launch or just collapse into a chair and think, 'blimey I wrote a book'
- we can be a cheerleaders, because it's more than design. You get a shout out in my newsletter, mentioned on my socials and I'll even turn up to your book launch if you want talk about design.
The National Literacy Trust shared studies that show connections between regular reading and mental wellbeing and this is huge as books are generally easy to find via libraries, Little Free Libraries, gifts or lends from friends or indie book shops. I love reading, it's like a dose of calm or a distraction.
There are four ways I can help you be an author with costs that will work for your budget.
- a one to one consultation to help you improve your book or solve a problem
- Hello Lovely Learning is my learning hub, and you can sign up to "Self Publishing Foundations" for very helpful self-study course from writing to book launch via lessons on editing, design, page planning, marketing, promotion and websites.
- a VIP day to get you started on a book design, we can create a template that you can use or you can pass to a formatter or typesetter.
- Bespoke design, which means I'll provide practical support from editing to publication, I can even create your author brand and your website, and set up your email marketing and support you along the way.
Drop me a DM or head to the Hello Lovely Design website.
