Joel Friedlander is an award-winning book designer and one of the Internet’s leading experts on self-publishing. Joel runs the popular blog at TheBookDesigner.com where he’s helped thousands of authors create books that readers really want to buy. Joel’s articles appear widely in online and print publications. He is also the author of A Self-Publisher’s Companion and a sought-after speaker who inspires authors to get their books into the marketplace. Joel is also the founder of The Self-Publishing Roadmap online video training course (http://selfpublishingroadmap.com/) for authors who plan to take control of their publishing career. Joel is also the book designer behind http://BookDesignTemplates.com, a Marin Bookworks company. Book Design Templates was created to solve a problem that has seemed almost impossible up until now for indie authors—getting a good-looking, industry-standard book interior from a word processing program. With Book Design Templates ready-to-use templates for Microsoft Word, authors for the first time have a reasonably-priced alternative to the high cost of professional book composition.