How to format nonfiction concerns such as subheads, quotations, bullet points and numbered lists when using a Book Design Template.
Tracy R. Atkins
How to Make Trim-Sized PDFs for Print on Demand Publication
Here’s how to create a print-ready PDF version of your book for print, set to the proper trim size for your book project.
Pre-Designed Book Covers (12 Beautiful Examples)
Introducing pre-designed book covers from BookDesignTemplates.com
Designing Genre Fiction and New Book Design Templates
Does design influence the readability of books? We introduce 6 new genre-specific pre-designed book templates at BookDesignTemplates.com
New! Full-Service Book Design and Production from The Book Makers
Announcing The Book Makers, a complete book design and production service
Top 15 Tips for Webinar Wannabes
Webinars are powerful tools in the author’s book marketing arsenal. Here are 15 Top Tips for Webinar Wannabes.
Happy Holidays from The Book Designer Family
To All Readers, contributors, and friends I love taking time around the holidays to look back over the year that’s coming to an end. And what do I find? More good fortune in the people who I have the pleasure and the honor to work with, collaborate with, speak to, and write for. And enormous […]
Successful Print, Ebook, and Audiobook Publishing with Amazon
Last week we introduced our new Amazon Success Toolkit, a collection of guidelines and productivity tools for publishers using CreateSpace, Kindle Direct Publishing, or Audible, all portals for Amazon. The response has been impressive, and I can see why. Keeping track of all the policies, procedures, and programs at Amazon is more than most of […]
CreateSpace Title Information and the New Amazon Success Toolkit
Is there any subject that excites so many emotions in indie authors than Amazon? From its ever-changing programs for self-publishers to its shifting positions on book reviews, Amazon is both the democratic gateway to the biggest market of book buyers in the world, and the 800-pound gorilla overshadowing our world. Trying to figure out the […]
Review: PDF to InDesign Conversion Software for Book Layout: Recosoft PDF2ID
Review: PDF to InDesign Conversion Software for Book Layout: Recosoft PDF2ID Tracy R. Atkins walks through this conversion software