FROSTBORN: THE MASTER THIEF print edition

Now working on the layout for the print version of FROSTBORN: THE MASTER THIEF.

Print layout is tricky. I prefer to do as little fancy formatting (custom fonts and such) as possible on my ebooks, because one of the great strengths of ebooks is that you can dial up the font as large as you wish. I know several visually-impaired people who have gotten back into reading simply because they can make the font enormous on their Kindles and iPads.

Additionally, I know of several writers who ran into trouble because they used custom fonts for their books, and then when Amazon released the higher-resolution Kindle Fires, those writers received quality complaints because their custom fonts did not render properly on the new Fires. So my approach is that an ebook should have just enough formatting to be comfortably usable and no more.

But in print books, everything has to be specified, because the book is printed (he said, stating the obvious) and the printer does exactly what the book file tells it to do. So the font and margins and everything else must be exactly specified.

Still, people keep buying FROSTBORN print books, so there will continue to be print editions of the new FROSTBORN books!

-JM