The Publisher's Guide to Book Anatomy

If you're unsure whether to include a Preface, a Foreword, or a Prologue in your book, or don't know what an Epigraph or a Colophon are, The Publisher's Guide to Book Anatomy is for you.

If you're an independent author publishing your own book, success depends on learning as much about publishing, book design, and marketing as about writing. This reference to Book Anatomy bridges part of the knowledge gap.

Even if you're an established publishing house, this manual will serve as a useful reference for editors, authors, and designers.

Place this book next to your dictionary, your thesaurus, and your style manual. The Publisher’s Guide to Book Anatomy is the missing volume in your publishing reference library.
—Dr. Margarita Gurri, Ph.D, CSP

Lovely to look at and quite clear, The Publisher’s Guide to Book Anatomy is a supremely useful book that will likely become a part of the universal canon for those publishing on their own.
—William Scott Miller, MFA
Dean, Academic Affairs, Broward College

This is a book not just for anyone who wants to publish a book but for anyone who loves books and wants to know more about what goes into holding something precious in your hands.
—Steven Bauer, Editor