Creative Jobs & Freelance Opportunities

Got rock-solid design experience and organizational skills? Interested in designing books for a wide range of paying clients? If so, consider joining the BlurbNation Custom Bookmaker program.

BlurbNation provides a turnkey way for talented designers to add book design and delivery to their list of freelance creative services. BlurbNation bookmakers get marketing support and client leads to help them build their own freelance bookmaking service.

Blurb (www.blurb.com) provides everything you need to make books for your clients, including free bookmaking software called BookSmart, your own online bookstore, and a print on demand back-end that enables you to print professional-quality books in any quantity. Put your Photoshop or InDesign skills to work or create books directly in BookSmart - it's up to you.

BlurbNation provides marketing support to help you find book clients such as businesses/non-profits, individuals, photographers, and others in your local community. You might be surprised how ready companies and individuals are to hire you to put their content into well designed books. Businesses are using books for marketing and client presentations, non-profits are creating books as fundraisers, photographers, designers, and other artists for work portfolios and client deliverables, and individuals are preserving content for gifts and family archives.

BlurbNation book designers also get listed in the BlurbNation Directory (http://www.blurb.com/blurb_n...directory) on Blurb's web site, where a steady stream of potential clients can find and hire you to design their books.

Once you're connected with a customer, the relationship is yours to manage including negotiation of design fees and per book fees. There's no cost for becoming a BlurbNation Custom Bookmaker and you keep 100% of the fees paid by your clients.

To apply, please email a resume and link to design samples to blurbnation@blurb.com.