Book designer and typesetter with 20 years of experience. Clients include John Wiley & Sons, Addison Wesley Longman, and McGraw Hill, and many books for Smithsonian Institution. Andrea is offers free book design services for books that she typesets. Book Designer and Typesetter Andrea Reed is a book designer and typesetter with 20 years of …
There are many online book retailers today, including CreateSpace and Amazon Kindle, Apple iBookstore, Google, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and Lulu. Publishing has changed in just about every way in my lifetime, but one thing remains the same: the basic rules of good book design and typesetting (also known as page layout and composition). Main …
A Brief List of Personal Favorites from Book Editor John David Kudrick Book Editing Associates Book-Editing.com Editing-Writing.com If you’re a novelist and looking for a good book on the craft of writing, you likely have realized after perusing the Internet that you have about a bazillion choices. So, where do you start? Well, it may …
By Marlo Garner If you’ve written or are writing a picture book, you’re probably quite excited about the final product, about holding that published book in your hands. You’re probably already thinking about the other main component of the book—the illustrations. I have aimed here to include the least you need to know when working …
By: David Alan Yes, I’m going to explain how to write a book in 750 words. After writing more than seventy books myself, I feel I can boil down the book-writing process to several simple tips. Note that I said book-writing process. Before attempting to write a book longer than Goodnight Moon, a person should …
by Alice Day What story am I telling? Who are the players? And finally, the novelist must ask perhaps the most important question of all: How best to tell the story? I’m talking about point of view (POV). What is the best angle “to shoot” your story so that the world, the landscape you’re creating, …