They can range from little artsy accents on the page numbers, all the way up to full-blown illustrations. I personally love all incarnations of art in written works, and believe they can enhance the experience for the reader. Here are a few examples from Honey Queen, by Christina Mercer:
You'll see there's a bee hovering at the page number in the bottom right corner, and here's a closeup of the chapter headings:
Christina includes titles for each of her chapters, and I think this sort of artwork is a great way to draw the reader's attention to each one, while also tying it in with previous chapters.
For Crow's Rest, I had already bought a bunch of vector artwork of crow silhouettes and wanted to sprinkle them throughout--fortunately, Errick A. Nunnally, who designed the interior layout, went along with it and I love how it turned out:
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| The title page |
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| The top of each page corner features a tiny crow, and what else do you use for section breaks but a line of crow tracks?!? |
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| These are the chapter numberings |
Those are definitely nice touches inside your book. Love the chapter numberings. I have a self-published book I've been thinking of having reprinted with a different cover design, but now I think it should also have more interior design as well. I'm not exactly sure what a "vector artwork" is. Can you explain?
ReplyDeleteYes, Elizabeth--depending on when you self-published it previously, you may find there are also sorts of new options available for design and distribution now. I recommend checking out Indie-Visible's website--they have a list of editors and designers they've vetted.
DeleteA vector artwork is saved in a different format than a regular image (i.e. jpeg), so that it can be resized without losing its sharpness. Especially with dark images like the silhouette of the crow, if you tried to make a small image larger, the edges would turn pixelated (that blocky look you sometimes see on the edges of illustrations).
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