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They’ll assist your editor, of course, but may also be responsible for things like identifying your book’s metadata, finding comp titles, drafting your cover copy, and probably a hundred other little details that many of us don’t even think about. 2. Production Team While your editorial team works to make sure your content sounds good, a production team is going to make sure your book looks good. A cover designer—either in-house or contracted out—will, you guessed it, design your cover. A graphic designer may also work on any interior assets you have – if you’re writing nonfiction with a lot of charts and diagrams and photos, or maybe even details like the chapter header art.

You’ll also have the production team formatting your book for you. Have you ever noticed Oman Email List that the text in a book goes fully from margin to margin? Words will be cut in half between two lines if that’s what it takes to make the paragraph edges even, or the spacing will be manipulated to make everything fit. It’s someone’s job to design those pages to look like that! Everything from line and paragraph breaks down to the page numbers and header details, the production team designs it all.



3. Marketing & Publicity Team(s) One mistake that a lot of authors make—both self-published and traditionally published authors—is the assumption that your book needs to be published before you can start promoting it. In reality, marketing and publicity efforts start way before a book’s publication date. The publishing timeline can vary quite a bit between publishing houses and genres, but in my experience marketing and publicity efforts started six to nine months before a book was published.