Two new guides for job-hunters by Cambridge based author John Hodgson hit the heights in Amazon's Kindle chart recently - with a little help from MA Publishing student Charlotte Choules.

John offered the guides, Top Tips: Writing a CV and Top Tips: Interviewing, as a design project for students, having guest-lectured at a series of masterclasses on the course. Charlotte decided to get involved with the project, and created new covers and layouts for the booklets, which have since risen to No. 2 and 3 in the Kindle Store chart respectively.

John attributed much of this popularity to Charlotte's redesign: "A strong cover design needs to be eye-catching and informative at the same time. Charlotte's design meets both requirements and paves the way for new covers in the same series."

Charlotte found that working on the Top Tips project was both challenging and rewarding. She said: "A huge amount of patience and dedication is required to manage all the aspects of designing, editing and producing a book by yourselves. The MA Publishing course at Anglia Ruskin has certainly provided me with the knowledge of what must be done and how best to approach such a project. It is incredibly exciting to see the Top Tips books for sale and I am looking forward to working on future titles with John!"

The course has a history of bringing students together with industry contacts such as John. For more information please visit the MA Publishing prospectus page.

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