For as much work as I put into illustrating a cover, the truth is that books spend the majority of their lives as a spine. So I didn’t want to skimp here! I wanted the spine to be as cute as the cover.
I took a lot of inspiration from those old Disney VHS tapes…you know, with the character portrait on the side? I knew I needed that. But I wasn’t sure how to organize all the information a reader would need (the name of the series, the number of the book, author, title etc.)
BEFORE
First, it was a hot mess of fonts. The reader-desired info was on there, but not in a beautiful fashion.
AFTER
The next day, I thought a little more about how it should be organized, and came up with this:
Maybe this is only interesting for book geeks…but I’m SUPER PROUD of how this spine design turned out!