Book Design

I always come up with the book’s design. It’s such an integral part of the story I’m telling, another way to extend the material. Thus, I always, always have a firm vision of story’s physical appearance.

With the “scrapbook” biographies, I not only researched and chose all the photographs, but I laid the book out as well. Using A-4 paper, a copy machine, glue sticks and scissors, I physically mapped out the pages, deciding on the order of each picture and entry. No one else could have done tha...