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Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction Instruction

by Joel Friedlander on November 26, 2010 1 Comment

Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction Instruction book using a clean and efficient book design to translate workshop contents to the printed page

Filed Under: Book Design, Samples Tagged With: book design, book page layout, Carol Benson, Payments Systems, publish a book, Scott Loftesness, typography

Book Page Layout Preparation: The Local Formatting Problem

by Joel Friedlander on November 11, 2010 25 Comments

Book Layout Preparation: The Local Formatting Problem and how to move your files from Word to InDesign quickly and efficiently by using powerful software tools

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Production, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe InDesign, book page layout, DIY book layout, local formatting, manuscript prep, Microsoft Word, self publishing

Book Page Layout Preparation: Cleaning Up Your Word Files

by Joel Friedlander on November 10, 2010 42 Comments

Page Layout Preparation: Cleaning Up Your Word Files requires use of the Find and Replace function to quickly and efficiently remove extra codes

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book page layout, book production, file preparation, Find and Replace, Microsoft Word, self publishing

Book Design & Page Layout Software: A Guide for DIY Authors

by Joel Friedlander on November 8, 2010 181 Comments

Book Design & Page Layout Software: A Guide for DIY Authors. Compares Word Processors, Page Layout Software and Hybrid Programs as tools for DIY Authors who want to produce their own books.

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe InDesign, book design, book page layout, fonts, Microsoft Word, page layout software, Quark Xpress, Scrivener, self publlishing, Storyist

Book Page Layout for a Long Narrative

by Joel Friedlander on March 9, 2010 16 Comments

One of the projects I’m working on is a memoir of growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa. It’s a very personal but fascinating look at childhood in another time and place, and I’ll talk more about this book when it’s published, but it’s a great example of setting up a straight narrative book page layout. […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, book designer, book page layout, page layout, self-publish a book, typography

Prepping Files for Book Layout: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

by Joel Friedlander on October 7, 2009 10 Comments

Do you know what’s inside your word processing file? Just words? There’s a lot more than that. Take this file for instance. It looks like a pretty normal Word file, just a bunch of words on the page. It’s like a lot of files I get from authors to use in producing their book. But […]

Filed Under: Book Construction Blueprint, Book Design, Book Production, Interior Design, Self Publishing Basics Tagged With: book page layout, file prep, hidden codes, Self-Publishing, Word

Self-Publishing Basics: 5 Layout Mistakes that Make You Look Unprofessional

by Joel Friedlander on September 17, 2009 49 Comments

Years ago my wife and I went to a wedding at a very prestigious “club” here in San Francisco. My wife looked gorgeous as always, and I wore a very nice light gray English wool suit that seemed suitably low-key. When we walked in the door I realized that I “hadn’t received the memo” because […]

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production, Interior Design, Self Publishing Basics, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book page layout, design errors

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