Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction Instruction book using a clean and efficient book design to translate workshop contents to the printed page
Book Page Layout Preparation: The Local Formatting Problem
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
Book Page Layout Preparation: Cleaning Up Your Word Files
Page Layout Preparation: Cleaning Up Your Word Files requires use of the Find and Replace function to quickly and efficiently remove extra codes
Book Design & Page Layout Software: A Guide for DIY Authors
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.
Book Page Layout for a Long Narrative
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. […]
Prepping Files for Book Layout: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
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 […]
Self-Publishing Basics: 5 Layout Mistakes that Make You Look Unprofessional
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 […]