S1E1 - Pictures & Pages Q&A with Andy Warren on Cover Design

Welcome to Pictures & Pages with Amy Freund, a Kelly's Writerly Q&A Podcast spin-off series that takes you behind the scenes of the Australian publishing industry!

Listen to Amy's 1st episode where she chats to Andy Warren, the award-winning book designer of The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams and Affirm Press and many more books published by Hardie Grant Books, Bonnier Publishing Australia, Five Mile, and Harper Collins Australia. He's the designer behind so many books for all ages across a wide range of genres.

This episode is all about:

• How a book actually gets made.
• How much say an author really has in their book design.
• If we should we judge a book by it's cover.

Thank you for listening!

Chapters

• 0:04 Welcome to Pictures and Pages with Amy Freund
• 0:27 What's this episode about?
• 0:41 Meet Andy Warren!
• 1:08 What's it like working as a freelance book designer?
• 2:17 How many books do you design per year?
• 3:01 How are you contracted?
• 6:14 Do you create by hand, digitally, or both?
• 7:48 What's the most amount of changes you've ever done?
• 9:45 What are your favourite covers?
• 14:27 Are there book cover trends?
• 17:18 How important is it to judge a book by it's cover?
• 19:15 Do you approach cover design differently for adult versus kids books?
• 21:16 Who is the one author you'd love to desgin for?
• 22:56 How can aspiring book designers break into the industry?