T9D has an interior! Robyn has been rocking it with her design, and all of us on the T9D team are super happy with the results. A gorgeous full-page spread at the beginning with 1960s rock concert imagery got me even more excited about this book; it really reflects the story’s themes beautifully, and I […]
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The Design of The Ninth Day Comes Together
By Annie WhitcombThis Monday, Robyn’s design for the interior of The Ninth Day will be revealed to the press. After discussing several ideas with Ruth at our meeting a few weeks ago, it will be exciting to see the completed product. Once we get the blurbs, exterior design, and page count finalized, we will be moving forward […]
Design and Promotion
By Annie WhitcombSo this week Ruth is in Istanbul doing research for her next book, and enjoying all the lovely bazaars. Back home we’ve had some very good things happening for T9D. Ruth’s book will once again have a chance at the PNBA awards, and we can thank Robyn in Sales for that. Yeah! Thank you Robyn! […]
In the Works
By Kelsey YocumAt the moment, The Ninth Day project manager team is waiting for work to come back from the departments. Bits of the project are being worked on in almost every group: Editing finished typecoding the manuscript and will be receiving back cover copy to edit any day now; Design is working on the back cover […]
The Interior and More!
By Annie WhitcombThe Ninth Day has an interior designer! Robyn Best, who is also doing an independent study this term to help TND with its sales plan, is really excited to get this project. Robyn, Ruth and I met last Wednesday to go over Robyn’s ideas and the first results of the YA interior design research. Robyn […]
Grand Design
By McKenzie WorkmanIt is now time for The Ninth Day to have its own interior designer! Some lucky Oolie will take what is now a simple Word document and turn it into a beautiful, professional layout using Adobe InDesign. From the outside, the interior design process looks simple—fonts and margins turn into square-ish pages of prose—but there […]