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How To Create A Standout Title Page: 5 FAQs and Answers

by Sarah Rexford on April 20, 2022 Leave a Comment

Knowing how to create a title page is one of the first needs you have as an aspiring author. Yes, you have your book idea. Yes, you can write. But if you hope to get your book out into the world, it’s important to format your project in the appropriate way. Thankfully, we’ve done the […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production, Interior Design Tagged With: book design, self publishing

What Is a Glossary? (FAQ & Examples)

by Sarah Rexford on September 30, 2021 Leave a Comment

As writers, it’s easy to focus on the writing of the book itself, the main copy. After all, without those thousands of words your book wouldn’t exist. They are crucial.  But there are other parts to a book: Title page, dedication, contents, foreword, acknowledgments, endnotes, etc. Which parts you include depend on the genre that […]

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What is the Easiest Font to Read?

by Gloria Russell on September 9, 2021 Leave a Comment

If you’ve never formatted a book before, you might not know exactly how much work goes into it. It might seem easy and uniform—it just needs to look like a book, right?—but you’d be surprised just how many decisions you’ll need to make if you’re formatting on your own. Among the most important of these […]

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Book Anatomy: Revisiting Your Book’s Back Matter

by Joel Friedlander on May 6, 2019 4 Comments

I’ve recently been writing a series on Book Anatomy for the BookWorks site, and the most recent article just went live last week. In taking the opportunity to revise my own work of about 10 years ago on the Parts of a Book I found a number of places where the list could be updated […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production Tagged With: book design, book production, BookWorks

No Time To Write AND Market Your Book? This Should Help…

by Joel Friedlander on January 7, 2019 4 Comments

Every New Years I talk to authors who have big writing and publishing plans for the new year. And yes, as you know, most of them never pan out. Does that happen to you, too? This is all too common, and I think it’s partly due to an assumption many of us have that writing […]

Filed Under: Book Production, Marketing Tagged With: Kimberley Grabas, plnners, Writing

New! The Book Blueprint: Expert Advice for Creating Industry-Standard Print Books

by Joel Friedlander on May 21, 2018 3 Comments

Announcing the publication of The Book Blueprint, Expert Advice for Creating Industry-Standard Print Books

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Printing, Book Production, Cover Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, The Book Blueprint

Beware the Impossible Book Project

by Joel Friedlander on February 19, 2018 12 Comments

Don’t try to create an “impossible” book.

Filed Under: Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book production, San Francisco Writers Conference

Is Offset Printing the Future for Indie Authors?

by Joel Friedlander on February 12, 2018 17 Comments

Self-published authors have ridden to fame and fortune on the wings of two technologies: e-books, and the hybrid print book production-distribution method known as print on demand. Each of these technologies reduces the financial risk inherent in book publishing. This is especially important for print books, where print on demand has eliminated the need for […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Printing, Book Production Tagged With: Book Construction Blueprint, offset printing

Is This the Best Writer’s Journal Ever?

by Joel Friedlander on December 18, 2017 7 Comments

I’m betting you’re a writer. And like lots of writers, I bet you use writer’s journals. I know I do, but sometimes it gets frustrating. I’ve had lots of journals over the years, but they almost always disappoint. There are journals that are too small, or too big to handle Others don’t have enough pages, […]

Filed Under: Book Production Tagged With: WriteWell Writer's Journal

The Epic Saga of WriteWell Journals: Book Production Success

by Joel Friedlander on December 11, 2017 11 Comments

The last time I visited what seems like a somewhat quixotic journey to try to create the ultimate writer’s journal, I was still waiting to see if my dream would become a reality. Here’s what I wrote a few months ago: In fact, today I’m waiting to get yet more samples, and this time, I […]

Filed Under: Book Production, Book Design, Book Printing Tagged With: journalling, WriteWell Writer's Journal

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