About A Book Designer’s Notebook

Hello there!

A Book Designer’s Notebook is a newsletter about book design and creative practice from the desk of Nathaniel Roy. That’s me.

Each week, you’ll receive a fresh batch of of insightful thoughts1 about designing books and living a life of making things. This newsletter is for writers, designers, and people who love everything about books.

Here’s a taste of what you’re getting in to:

Paid subscribers get How to Design a Book Cover, a biweekly bonus series in which I share my cover design process from start to finish. You can read the first post in that series here:


Here’s what some kind folks are saying about A Book Designer’s Notebook:

For those of us who love books, a closer look at books as art objects.

—Jared Henderson, Commonplace Philosophy

Thoughtful and witty insight for everything related to book design.

—Mitchell Volk, Mitchell’s Newsletter

One of the things that makes this platform great is contributors like Nathaniel Roy his knowledge and experience.

—Jesse Nunez, Fake PNG

As I work towards designing my own two horror collection book covers this year, your posts and recommendations for reading are proving invaluable.

—Erica Drayton, Top in Fiction


Thanks for stopping by. I hope you’ll stick around!

Nathaniel

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A book designer, collage maker, photo taker, word writer, and a few other things in Ypsilanti, Michigan.