Covered It

Now I'm also creating a few collections from my novels. I've always done this, but it;s never as simple as just binding three books together. The main issue is that the 'gutter' in the middle of the book needs to be larger when there are more pages. 

The thing I usually forget? To ensure that the page size I'm using is the same in Word, Photoshop and In Design. Otherwise it's almost impossible to get things to align.

Mysteriously this doesn't seem to happen on smaller novels of say 250-300 pages.

The other factor is the choice of cover art. If I open it to mr ARC-readers, they will inevitably pick two different covers. It happened with Artificial, one of the Christina Nott books and now with Secrets. I've rationalised it by having an International cover and a U.S. specific one.