Thread: David Moratto Book Designer

Hi everyone I'm a book designer, book cover designs and interior book designs.

A little bit about myself,

In-between designing I'm writing a fiction/science fiction short novel . It won't be a great book, because writing fiction/science fiction takes inner talent, but the story has been in me for as long as I can remember and to me the story it-self is a good one - original and unique and I want to get it out of me. Good or bad, I'll finish it then pass on the manuscript to a story editor and see what takes - nothing may happen and that's ok with me.

If anyone needs help or advice if your designing your own book and a lot of you probable are, ask away.

David Moratto Book Designer
davidmoratto.com

Glad you made it here, David.
Hope you find this a congenial site.
You're way to shy about your talents.

People, check out THIS ARTWORK

Originally Posted by lin

Glad you made it here, David.
Hope you find this a congenial site.
You're way to shy about your talents.

People, check out THIS ARTWORK

Thanks Lin)

Hi David, welcome to the forums! You have some nice artwork there. I look forward to seeing you around the forums and would love to read some of that short novel you're working on.

Originally Posted by Gumby

Hi David, welcome to the forums! You have some nice artwork there. I look forward to seeing you around the forums and would love to read some of that short novel you're working on.

Hi Gumby,

Thanks for the welcome. I can't wait to share the book once it's done. I'm doing artwork for the book - having 1 artwork of a main characters for each chapter. I'll probably share that soon.

Welcome.

Originally Posted by WhitakerRStanton

Welcome.

Hi WhitakerRStanton,

Thanks for the welcome. I'll see you around.

Hello, David, it's nice to see another visual artist on the forum. I look forward to seeing your point of view as book cover art is a subject that comes up in discussion very occasionally. Also will be nice to see your writing.

Welcome to WF,

~Foxee

Originally Posted by Foxee

Hello, David, it's nice to see another visual artist on the forum. I look forward to seeing your point of view as book cover art is a subject that comes up in discussion very occasionally. Also will be nice to see your writing.

Welcome to WF,

~Foxee

Hi Foxee,

I love book covers also. I love this site, check it out: The Book Design Review

With the cost of marketing + printer + editor + book designer + book cover designer, it all comes down to budget. But when one can afford it, looking at some of those designs hiring a book designer make total sense.

We with a limited budget we all inspire to create something thats timeless by being inspired by true book designers.

Welcome to the forums, David. I checked out some of your art and it's awesome. The ability to render images on paper has always eluded me. Other than stick-figures, hah. Playing with words is my thing (though God forbid I ever work with them). Look forward to reading your stuff.

Hi Caelum,

Thanks for the welcome. I read your Captain Coufoufle Versus the Narwhales. Great writing and story. I mean it, you pack so much visuals into every sentence. It's stories like that, that are made and inspire into movies. Have you done that before, create one of your stories into a movie script and send it to - I'm guessing - film houses?

My script is in writing, I think I'll type some out and place it in a blog like you did. I'll let you know when it's up so you can tell me what you think.

Wow, thanks man. I had a lot of fun writing that story. I've never tried to get anything published, but I'm just about to. Just finished my first novel and am going to be sending it out to publishers soon (or more specifically, writing agencies that deal in fantasy/fiction). In my biased opinion, it's extremely powerful and rich, colourful and unique, but I'll see what the publishers think. It's similar to Coufoufle insofar as it retains the absurd humour, but it loses the profanity and is darker overall. At times, bloody. Scary, even. One of the characters, Lord Lodvark, is mentioned in Coufoufle.

I'd be glad to offer you feedback on your script. I'm a canuck, too, grew up in Saskatchewan though live in BC right now.

Originally Posted by caelum

Wow, thanks man. I had a lot of fun writing that story. I've never tried to get anything published, but I'm just about to. Just finished my first novel and am going to be sending it out to publishers soon (or more specifically, writing agencies that deal in fantasy/fiction). In my biased opinion, it's extremely powerful and rich, colourful and unique, but I'll see what the publishers think. It's similar to Coufoufle insofar as it retains the absurd humour, but it loses the profanity and is darker overall. At times, bloody. Scary, even. One of the characters, Lord Lodvark, is mentioned in Coufoufle.

I'd be glad to offer you feedback on your script. I'm a canuck, too, grew up in Saskatchewan though live in BC right now.

Awesome caelum,

Your work is definitely publishable. I'll let you know when I add something from my story, sometime this week, it won't be much, but it'll be good and weird. I'm thinking of making it into a comic novel.

yeah, caelum's one of our bright sparks and hello David, nice to meet you

and welcome to the world of Writing Forums, i hope you enjoy your time here

i'm yet to meet a Canadian i didn't like - i say that with all sincerity and cheers!

ash

Oh, he's Canadian? Well, that explains it. They're decades behind Americans in the evolution away from basic humanity.

David, take a look in "New Media" section here, especially the X Mann series and the Soryan Order serial.
Also, Not the "Merchandising at Cafe Press" post by John there--no matter what format an artist/writer publishes in, merchandise can be a big help.