Formatting an e-Book can be a lot of work, depending on how many different formats you want to produce. Continue reading
Julia Fellner
Storyteller, Authorpreneur & Consultant
Category: FOR WRITERS (page 1 of 4)
I had never even used InDesign, before I downloaded the test version to learn typesetting, so here are a few tips I had to learn through hard work. Continue reading
With formatting a printed book, you also have to keep in mind to add features you don’t need for an E-book, namely a header and footer. Continue reading
Before you even start typesetting, you can do a lot of pre-formatting with a basic text-formatting program. However, before you start, you should make sure that program is compatible with the typesetting program you are going to use. Continue reading
Typesetting (= formatting) your book is a very tedious, time-consuming job. If you do it yourself you will probably end up blinking at the screen, wondering if there’s a period or dirt on your laptop screen or you’re just going mad on multiple occasions. Continue reading
When you are unsure about certain aspects of production, for example where the page numbers are supposed to go or what do other books’ title pages look like, you can do the same thing I did: use role models. Continue reading
If you look at any book, whether it is a printed one or e-Book, you will notice that one of the first pages is the page with all the copyright information. Take the copyright page from my self-published novel To be a Hero as an example. Continue reading
When people have finished reading your story, they might want to learn more about you. Depending on whether you are using a penname and how much you want to share about yourself your author bio could contain the following: Continue reading
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