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The Chadash Chronicles: Fool’s Errand & Mystic’s Mayhem

Skilled Workman Posted on November 29, 2013 by David BergslandNovember 29, 2013

An impressive bit of high fantasy ††††† [I don’t have stars in this font] Or so I’m told. When David gave me copies to review he said something to the effect that as far as he knew I didn’t like high fantasy. That may well be true—especially the heathen versions of the same. I remember moving on to other genres because of all the nasty themes present in the books I was finding in the early 1970s. But … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Review, Recent Posts | Tagged Anne McCaffrey, christian high fantasy, Dragonriders of Pern, EarthSea, High fantasy, Mayhem, Ursula K. Le Guin | Leave a reply

Lightning Source: the pro’s choice for POD?

Skilled Workman Posted on November 18, 2013 by David BergslandNovember 18, 2013

The image is meaningless fill. I received this comment from Michael W. Perry, Inkling Books, Auburn, AL. I’ve been wanting a guest posting on this for a while, so I am appropriating his comments for that purpose. I’ve never dealt with LS. I never have the budget. But it is definitely the pros’ choice. Lightning Source is the print-on-demand supplier for the traditional publishers. Many authors find it very difficult to deal with, but Mike, like me, has … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Guest Posts, Recent Posts | Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, Createspace, CreativeCloud, InDesign, Lightning Source, LightningSource, Michael W. Perry, POD, Print on demand, professional | Leave a reply

Desktop, laptop, or tablet?

Skilled Workman Posted on October 25, 2013 by David BergslandOctober 25, 2013

I found a good article today which explains many of the issues. My main issue with the conclusions is that I cannot be productive with a laptop. If you are just writing, an iPad with Apple’s wireless keyboard will do the job for you very well. The article misses my most important category of software apps: the Creative Cloud. My two most used apps [outside of Mail and Safari], are InDesign and Photoshop. I can easily see that … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, apple, Computer keyboard, Desktop computer, iMac, IPad, iWork, on-demand, OpenType, PostScript, publishing, Self-publishing, Typography | Leave a reply

What we need in a font family for books

Skilled Workman Posted on August 26, 2013 by David BergslandAugust 26, 2013

As typographers and book designers, we need a minimum three-font family—regular, italic, and bold: Italic is necessary for periodical names and emphasis. Bold is used for proper names and headers. As you saw at the start of this paragraph I used a bold through the colon to emphasize an important point. In my books I use my Bold Sans Serif. But regardless of which font family you choose it must satisfy several basic requirements of book design. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Readability, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Book Design, book fonts, design, font, font for books, graphics, Italic type, oldstyle figures, Sans-serif, small caps, Times Roman, Type color, Typeface, Typography | Leave a reply

The special characters you must use in your books

Skilled Workman Posted on August 26, 2013 by David BergslandAugust 26, 2013

Today, in the digital arena, a font is simply a complete set of characters for a given style: In InDesign, for example, a font can be set as any size from a tenth of a point to 1296 points. Below I am showing you the font used for my books, named Contenu Book (which I designed), showing some of the 563 characters available in it. Notice the three styles of numbers (among other things). Contenu Book This … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Production, Readability, Recent Posts, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged accented vowels, accents, ASCII, bullets, Character encoding, English alphabet, QWERTY, special characters, Unicode, UTF-8 | 3 Replies

Writing a book? No Sweat! Right? It’s what I do

Skilled Workman Posted on August 24, 2013 by David BergslandAugust 24, 2013

I’ve been working on the third edition of Writing In InDesign due out around the first of the year. As usual, I am writing a lot, rearranging everything, doing everything I can to make it more helpful and uplifting to my readers. It will also include the exciting new advances in ebook design and formatting now possible with InDesign CC. But this is just a quote about why we do what we do: ♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦•♦ So, I’m a writer … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Leadership, Recent Posts, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Arts, author, Book Design, called, crazy, deft, reader, weird, writer, Writers Resources, writing | 2 Replies

New Release: InDesign Ebooks Conversions, 2nd Edition

Skilled Workman Posted on August 7, 2013 by David BergslandSeptember 13, 2013

Updating the ebook conversions techniques to InDesign CC Your book is ready to print How do I produce my ebooks? Here’s a set of workable techniques: InDesign Ebook Conversions for $2.99 If you had enough sense to fully format your book in InDesign, the answer to how to make ebooks is “easily, though not simply”. The largest problem most graphic designers have is that this whole “ebook thing” is a confusing mishmash of options and possibilities. This book … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Production, ePUB, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing | Tagged Adobe InDesign, apple, converting books to ebooks, desktop publishing, E-book, ebook production, epub, epub design, HTML, iBooks, kindle book design, Kobo, nook | Leave a reply

New Release! “How Do I Make The Next Book Better?”

Skilled Workman Posted on July 20, 2013 by David BergslandAugust 7, 2013

This is the plaintive question I get every time after I have set up, formatted, and uploaded a book for a new author. It is also one of the most common questions I see while socially networking. Buy $2.99: How Do I Make The Next Book Better? There are three basic underlying concepts 1: Producing a print version of your book 2: Dealing with the size of your production budget 3: Producing a manuscript which can be easily … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, ePUB, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, graphic design, Guy Kawasaki, publish, QuarkXPress, Self-publishing, Typography, word | Leave a reply

How can I make the next book better?

Skilled Workman Posted on July 13, 2013 by David BergslandJuly 13, 2013

How can I make it better the next time? This is the plaintive question I get every time after I have set up, formatted, and uploaded a book for a new author. It is also one of the most common questions I see in the FaceBook and Linked-In groups, Google+ communities, and specialized author forums in which I spend time. It is coupled with the question, “How can I get the print version set up?” There are … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, FaceBook, GoodReads, graphic design, Guy Kawasaki, how do I self-publish, InDesign, publish, QuarkXPress, Typography, what does it cost to self-publish, word | 2 Replies

Longer books sell better!

Skilled Workman Posted on May 13, 2013 by David BergslandMay 13, 2013

I had a frustrating weekend. I was reading a novel. I enjoyed it. But it stopped halfway through— BANG!—just stopped. I was irritated. I had just started getting into the characters. So, I bought the second one in the series. It was also very good, but it did the same durn thing! So, I bought the third one in the series, and it did the same thing. There’s one more book in the series, and I’ll probably … Continue reading →

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