I'm a designer. I love things that are well designed. The cover of The Chamberlain Key was designed well enough to get me interested in picking it up. The cover itself has an image referred to as temple scroll and there's a lot of hebrew in the background on the front cover that looks decorative at first; it's little things like that which made it so inviting to pick up. Before starting to read, I felt like the cover would give me a sense of what it was all about. A quick flipping through the pages gauges that an editorial designer wasn't in use for the creation of this print job. Mainly indicated by hyphenations, single words or short amount of letters on one line. This isn't problematic, although a little distracting for my well-trained eyes. Additionally, having an editorial designer work with all the text and images would probably make the cost too high to get Smith's message out. I'm also not much for religious stories. Reading "The Chamb...
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