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How to Build a Better Ellipsis with Adobe InDesign

by Joel Friedlander | Oct 28, 2013 | Book Design

I had been working on a book with editor Sharon Goldinger of PeopleSpeak. This fiction author is fond of dropping ellipses into his dialogue. Consequently there were hundreds of them in the 300-page book. Some authors will just type three periods where they want an...

Old John Baskerville and the Birth of Modern Printing Paper

by Joel Friedlander | Jun 2, 2011 | The Joel Friedlander Archives

Is there anything more mundane than a piece of paper? Really, paper is one of the more forgettable parts of daily life, and as book producers, paper is often an afterthought for self-publishers. Part of the reason for this is that most self-publishers these days are...

Book Design to Sell: 5 Book Interior Page Layout Mistakes to Avoid

by Joel Friedlander | Apr 26, 2011 | Book Design, Self-Publishing

Ed: This article is an excerpt from a teleseminar I recorded with Laura Cross, who helps educate authors about the publishing process. In this excerpt, we talk about the importance of book interior page layout. Laura: Now book interior page layout is another important...

Authors: Wondering How Long Your Book Should Be?

by Joel Friedlander | Feb 1, 2011 | Book Design, Book Production, Marketing, Self-Publishing

Almost by definition, authors who decide to self-publish a book are new amateurs in the book world. Because of that, they often have expectations and reactions to books that aren’t conditioned by long-term exposure to “how the sausage is made.” For...
8 Drop Caps For Chapter Openings in Adobe InDesign

8 Drop Caps For Chapter Openings in Adobe InDesign

by Joel Friedlander | Sep 2, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing

When you start to design your book, one of the first things you might realize is that the chapter opening pages have the greatest potential for design elements, including drop caps and ornamentation. The rest of the book has to do the duty of conveying the meaning in...
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