hardback

The hardback version of Think Like a Teacher quietly arrived last week, but no notification came my way, so I discovered this fact only today when I checked the book's order status. Went down to my building's lobby to pick up my book, then I opened it up at the office. 

Front cover:

Spine:

Back cover:

Two-page spread:

Holding the page manually so you can see how even the top and bottom margins are:

I'm very, very happy with the quality of the book's interior, but the cover's going to take some work. The front cover, as you see, is uneven—it's shifted a bit too far to the right. It was hard to figure out proper centering with Amazon's native cover-design software, but still, that problem is on me. I'll try to make a better version soon. The spine is missing the publisher information (Juasubul, i.e., Left-handed Buddha); this is because the cover-design software forced me to design my spine right there on the spot: I couldn't simply upload my spine graphic, and in making the spine design, I either forgot to include the publisher information, or the template didn't allow me to insert a third block of information. The back cover also required me to use Amazon's template which, as you see, looks bad because both fonts (the blurb by the photo and the main text) are too big. I'd have liked to scrunch the text down by about 20% in both cases. Still, I now have a benchmark for making future designs, so that's good. I think that making a hardback version of my movie-review book is going to be awesome if I do it right.