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At MBK Book Cover Designs, we design print ready book covers for authors, presses, publishers and other designers. To begin, we read excerpts from the author’s book manuscript, read press information, do research on related books then design three preliminary book cover sketches. Once the client has approved a design, a cover and/or jacket mechanical is produced and sent out for approval. When mechanicals are approved, the mechanical/s are looked over and gotten ready for the printer that will print the final covers and/or book. Last, when the book cover mechanicals are at the printers, we check sample covers for any mistakes before the final printing. Melissa Blackmon Kohout, owner of MBK Book Cover Designs has worked in book publishing for twenty years. She has worked in most aspects of book design and production: design, typesetting, photograph preparation, illustration preparation, cover/die/jacket mechanical preparation, electronic prepress file preparation, etc. She has worked on all kinds of books (illustrated, scholarly, children’s, text, etc.) large and small for local author’s and larger presses and publishers. She loves what she does and would take much pride on working on your next book cover.
She graduated with a Design degree from North Carolina State University’s College of Design. While at her Alma Mater, she won many design awards including three national awards for design excellence as editor-in-chief of Windhover Literary Magazine.
After graduation, she worked in the Ferringdon printing district of London, England for WMK studios doing print production work, technical illustration and darkroom work.
Upon returning home she worked for Tseng Information Systems doing prepress book production work for scholarly university presses. Their clients included University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,, University of Georgia Press, Duke University Press, and many others. Still in business since opening in 1980, Tseng has won numerous AAUP awards for scholarly book typesetting.
While working at Tseng, M.B. Kohout received a grant for Women in Non-Traditional studies and earned an additional degree in engineering.
In 1997, she began prepress book production work for Kachergis Book Design. Main clients included: Templeton Foundation Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, John Locke Foundation, University of Akron Press, The Catholic University of America Press, Cork University Press (Ireland), Shakti (The Global Fund for Children), Congressional Quarterly Books, Sidran Institute Press, Dana Press, University of Virginia Press, Canon Law Society of America, Syracuse University Press, The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Coastal Carolina Press, The Ackland Art Museum, The former North Carolina Governor-Jim Hunt, Blair Publishing, Charlesbridge Press, Roman and Littlefield, Naval Institute Press, and various others. At Kachergis, M.B. Kohout worked with printers such as Sheridan Printing, Hamilton Printing, Thomson-Shore, Cushing-Malloy, Maple-Vail, C & C Offset, RR Donnelley, Transcontinental (Canada), etc. Still open after twenty-five years, Kachergis Book Design has also been the recipient of numerous AAUP awards for design excellence in scholarly publishing.
We would be happy to talk with you about your next book project.
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