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Formatter's Forge [Public] / Re: Doing a book makeover and could use some advice on adding the family tree
« Last post by Jan Hurst-Nicholson on Today at 12:06:28 AM »As far as size, for paperbacks or hardcovers, you can cut it into two pages, Left and Right, so the whole thing will fit. Ebooks don't really matter because kindle readers, phones, apps, etc, can focus in on the image.
When I did my family tree for my Azure series, I focused more on appearance than content. In other words, I was looking more for it looking pretty than its actual content. If you click on my newest cover under here in my signature, Princess Sojourn, it'll take you to Amazon where you can look at page four in Amazon's sample. There's my family tree for the royal family in my epic fantasy series.
This is supplement content so I would focus more on appearance than content. I think the appearance is super important, if you're gonna do it.
Thanks. I checked out your fancy family tree. Looks good.
My family tree is important because of the large cast of characters. I always intended to put one in the front of the book but couldn't work out how to do it so published the original without one. But a reviewer said they had a hard time keeping track, so I persevered and finally figured out how to do it.
As you mentioned, the ebook readers could enlarge it, so I won't worry about that.
Thanks for the suggestion about doing it over two pages. If I were to add another page it would mean reformatting all the chapters so they still open in the correct manner. I can see myself messing it up As very few print versions get sold I'm probably better off leaving it as it is. I'm going to get a new cover, so might ask the cover designer to do it as they include a title page in the quote and might be open to an extra page.