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Designing Genre Fiction and New Book Design Templates

by Joel Friedlander on March 27, 2017 3 Comments

Does design influence the readability of books? We introduce 6 new genre-specific pre-designed book templates at BookDesignTemplates.com

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, Apple Pages, book design, book design templates, Microsoft Word, Tracy R. Atkins

Book Design: Formatting Poetry Gets A Lot Easier

by Joel Friedlander on April 20, 2015 11 Comments

Book Design: Formatting Poetry Gets A Lot Easier with the Poetics book template from bookdesigntemplates.com

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book design, fonts, FontSquirrel, Microsoft Word, Poetics template, self publishing

New Today: Book Templates for Adobe InDesign

by Joel Friedlander on November 24, 2014 30 Comments

New Today: Book Templates for Adobe InDesign introduces the first 6 predesigned book templates for fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe InDesign, book design, book templates, bookdesigntemplates.com, font, Microsoft Word

New Self-Publishing Options from Blurb and Book Design Templates

by Joel Friedlander on August 19, 2014 19 Comments

New Self-Publishing Options from Blurb and Book Design Templates along with an examination of Ingram’s Standard and Premium color options

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Blurb.com, book design, book design templates, Eileen Gittins, Ingram Spark, Lightning Source, Microsoft Word

Now Create Your Book Covers in Microsoft Word

by Joel Friedlander on June 13, 2014 29 Comments

New Template: Create Your Book Covers in Microsoft Word introduces a way for authors to create their own book covers in MS Word

Filed Under: Book Design, Cover Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, bookdesigntemplates.com, cover design, Microsoft Word, self publishing, template, Tracy Atkins

Win a Kindle Fire, iPad Air, or one of 20 Other Prizes, Save 30% Too

by Joel Friedlander on November 1, 2013 6 Comments

Win a Kindle Fire, iPad Air, or one of 20 Other Prizes, Save 30% Too describes a sale and promotion at bookdesigntemplates.com

Filed Under: Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, Microsoft Word, NaNoWriMo, templates

Pitch or Publish? Microsoft Word Templates Go Both Ways

by Joel Friedlander on October 9, 2013 1 Comment

Pitch or Publish? Microsoft Word Templates Go Both Ways announces a new Book Proposal & Manuscript Template bundle in conjunction with Mike Larsen

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: book pitch, book proposal, Microsoft Word, Mike Larsen, self publishing, template, Tracy R. Atkins

Picture Book Templates Arrive for Kindle Authors, and a Labor Day Weekend Sale

by Joel Friedlander on August 30, 2013 45 Comments

Picture Book Templates Arrive for Kindle Authors, and a Labor Day Weekend Sale describes Fable, the breakthrough book design template for ereaders

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: book design, bookdesigntemplates.com, ebook, Kindle, Microsoft Word, template, Tracy R. Atkins

Children’s Book Templates Now at BookDesignTemplates.com

by Joel Friedlander on August 2, 2013 20 Comments

Children’s Book Templates Now at BookDesignTemplates.com describes picture book, chapter book, and pre-teen book design templates for Microsoft Word

Filed Under: Book Design, Book Production, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Beatrix Potter, book design, book design templates, book production, book template, Microsoft Word, Tracy R. Atkins

World War Word: A Book Formatting Story

by Joel Friedlander on July 12, 2013 48 Comments

World War Word: A Book Formatting Story by Tina Chan follows the author through 8 stages of formatting her book, with illustrations

Filed Under: Book Production, Guest Posts Tagged With: book design, book formatting, bookdesigntemplates.com, indie author, Microsoft Word, self publishing, Tina Chan

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