My friend Suzanne Murray leads writing workshops, acts as a creativity coach, and leads literary trips to Ireland. I was fortunate to work with her for over a year. In the near future I’m going to introduce Suzanne to you more formally through an interview, but...
We’ve all heard about it, we talk about it, we call it by the wrong name, but do you really know how print-on-demand book distribution works? You will by the end of this article. I’ve written in an earlier post about the confusion over the terminology...
So you’ve written your masterpiece, had a friend look it over for errors, run it through your word processor’s spell check and created a cover with a “cover program” on your publishing company’s website. You are ready to do battle in the...
In these posts I’m reviewing the steps that I take to create a PDF file for digital print-on-demand printing at Lightning Source (LSI) from Adobe InDesign CS4. File creation using this process must be performed at least twice for each book submitted to LSI; once...
Podcast: Self-Publisher’s 5-Minute Guide to Book Printing Processes With all the talk about print on demand, digital printing and the future of the publishing industry, it’s easy to forget that we’ve got books to produce in the here and now, and we...
