Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #6
DIGITAL BOOKS VERSUS PRINT BOOKS All the previous posts in this series have been about producing printed books, especially trade paperbacks. But now let’s...
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Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #5
Before I get to today’s topic, I just found out that John D. Berry’s ebooks on type and design are free for download: Dot-Font: Talking about Fonts ...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #4
Let’s start with hyphenation today. USE HYPHENATION: DON’T AVOID IT I see a lot of small press books where they try to solve the problem of a word p...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #3
Ok, now we get to the real stuff that no one tells you. Let’s say you’re using Quark or InDesign, you’ve flowed all the text of your novel or ...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers POST #2
Okay, so you’ve decided you’re going to design and typeset your own book. The first thing to note is that I have never come up with a way around nee...
Type and Design Tips for self- and small publishers
Self-publishing and niche press publishing is going through an explosion right now, thanks to the ease with which modern tech lets us produce digital books and ...
Black Feathers new cover design poll. Comments wanted.
Cover design poll! So, I’m going to do an ebook edition of my old collection of erotic short stories that Harper Collins published back in the 90s, BLACK ...
The Prince's Boy: do you want a sequel?
So, now that The Prince’s Boy is really and truly done with, all chapters and the epilogue are posted… of course I’m starting to think about a...
The Prince's Boy author's notes!
Thank you for reading The Prince’s Boy. The whole fun of doing an online serial is sharing it with readers every week. I hope I inspired at least as much ...
Get a preview copy of The Prince's Boy: Sergetten's Tale (non-holiday re-post…)
(Reposting this as the holiday weekend was not a good time for it… duh.) So, volume 2 of the ebook/paperback (and also the complete hardcover) include a s...