ARE YOU A WRITER?
Professional file and cover creation
Many new and established authors are taking full
control of their writing career and turning to
independent or self publishing as a vehicle to get
their writing out without delay to readers and at
the same time, use writer marketing sites and
social media as potential channels to interest
traditional publishers. Becoming hybrid published
where an author both self-publishes as well as
becoming traditionally published through an agent,
is a sensible objective to aspire to in a digital age.
In addition to applying rigorous editing, you as a
writer need a professional and appealing final
product, better than a raw manuscript, to show to
the world and potential readers what you’ve
created.
We provide an independent book service to do this
and enable any writer or author to self-publish
their work. With our competitively priced support
in digital typography, layout & formatting, book
cover design, writer websites plus individual
creative consultancy we will help you quickly
achieve your goal. A professionally printed
paperback, hardback or digital eBook, ready for
immediate marketing, retailing and selling.
What we need from you
Whether
you
self
publish
through
CreateSpace,
Ingram
or
use
a
local
printer
they
will
want
two
uploaded
print-ready
Pdf
files
to
manufacture
your
book. An inner text file and a cover file.
For
the
inner
file
you
provide
us
with
your
final
and
completed
manuscript,
edited
and
ready
to
send
to
an agent or publisher.
Using
professional
typography
we
prepare
the
file
to
the
correct
specifications
wanted
including
style,
font, size for paperback, hardback or eBook.
For
the
cover
file,
we’ll
use
copyright
free
images
or
illustrations
which
we
can
provide
to
your
liking
or
you
supply.
We
then
create
a
front,
spine
and
back
cover
to
suit
the
inner
file
and
book,
again
typed
and formatted to the right specification.
We
communicate
with
you
online,
continuously
along
the
process
path
until
you’re
happy
and
sign
off
the
final
versions.
These
will
be
ready
to
be
uploaded
for
publishing
and
printing.
And
if
you’re
not
confident
of
doing
that
yourself,
or
don’t
have
the
time,
we’ll
set
up
your
personal
account,
secure
to
you,
with
CreateSpace
or
Kindle
Direct
Publishing
and
your
book
will
be
on
Amazon
in
a
trice
with
all
sales
profits
going
to
your
bank
only.
That’s it!
Find out more?
Click here or go to Services and Pricing on the
menu bar.
Book design and
typography
Case Study: A typical project
Women’s fiction author, Corri van de Stege, presented us with a
final and copy edited digital manuscript of her 70,000 word novel,
Notes on Anna, to be turned initially into a print paperback.
Our proofing picked up a number of critical spelling and typo
errors and we reset the corrected Word file into a suitable 5” by 8”
format, improving the Arial font style to 11 point Minion Pro, a nice
book font, and altering the line spacing appropriately. For the cover
we agreed on a stock photo image which reflected the book ethos
for the front which we digitally colour and size amended and
merged with an author supplied own picture for the back providing
a holistic and pleasing effect for the content and specification for
the book inner. A few drafts and changes later and the files were
signed off to be published immediately as both a paperback and
kindle eBook.
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