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Self-publishing Front & Back matter: It’s all about the reader

Skilled Workman Posted on March 1, 2016 by David BergslandMarch 1, 2018

Today, in this third post on formatting, I want to talk about many things which have been lost in the rush toward ebooks: self-publishing front back matter. This is an excerpt from my book: Book Publishing With InDesign CC Many reader services are no longer written or included. Most of this is simply because of the inexperience and lack of training by the normal self-publishing novelist and writer of devotions. You should take a look and seriously … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, New Book Release, Readability, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography | Tagged afterword, appendix, back matter, Book Design, ebook, font matter, frontispiece, half title, introduction, list of figures, preface, print, prologue, publishing | 3 Replies

Basic Page Layout: Part 2, Margins & Columns

Skilled Workman Posted on February 29, 2016 by David BergslandFebruary 26, 2016

This is part two of the new series on page layout from my new book, Self-Publishing With InDesign CC. We continue with two of the most important controls for readability. To the left is an example of bad design. The body text is Berthold Baskerville Book 8/12, while the caption is Adobe Garamond Pro 6/7. So, no one can read it—too small. The columns are so narrow that there are only 7-9 words per line with the average closer … Continue reading →

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Cover design: A wonderful crosshatching video for ink drawing…

Skilled Workman Posted on February 27, 2016 by David BergslandFebruary 27, 2016

I found this today, going through my emails. It is beautiful and wonderful. About five minutes… Dan Nelson’s delightful Cross Hatching library teaching ink illustration Does this take a lot of time? Duh! Is it satisfying? Yes. How does it compare to knitting, embroidery, painting, and all the rest? It’s just another opportunity to learn to get in touch with the things which matter in your life. It can be cathartic therapy, all the way to gentle … Continue reading →

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Posted in GraphicDesign, Illustration, Recent Posts | Tagged anointed design, Book Design, cross hatching, crosshatching, Design Issues, drawing, graphics, hand drawn, illustration, inkwork, pen and ink, publishing, Self-publishing | 2 Replies

Basic page layout: Part One, Book size

Skilled Workman Posted on February 26, 2016 by David BergslandFebruary 26, 2016

As I get ready to release my new book, Self-Publishing With InDesign CC, I want to share some of the basic ideas in the book. Self-publishers rarely know page layout standards So, this little series will help with some of those basic decisions you need to make. Setting up your book to be read: One of the more daunting aspects of book design for the inexperienced is page layout. Most people have Word experience and as I have said … Continue reading →

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Studying poster design to help your covers

Skilled Workman Posted on February 24, 2016 by David BergslandFebruary 24, 2016

CREATIVE PRO HAS AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE TODAY on poster design. I mention this because authors without the trained eye of the designer make embarrassing design mistakes because this knowledge is not part of their understanding. Self-publishers must train their eyes Books like Ellen’s shown above are a real help as you expand your knowledge beyond the narrow confines of writing and editing. What writers are normally not aware of is the constant visual input which is the … Continue reading →

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Just because you can buy a buggy whip, cars have still completely replaced the horse and buggy

Skilled Workman Posted on December 15, 2015 by David BergslandDecember 15, 2015

There’s a good article in Book Business today called Why Ebooks will eventually replace books. Caleb makes some very good points. Many people don’t look at the situation and see what a radical thing an ebook is. Like I mentioned in the title, you can still buy a buggy whip—but it’ll be hard to find and very expensive. The same will be true of books before too long. Even now, a paperback is several times as expensive as … Continue reading →

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Everyone has their own walk: you need to find yours

Skilled Workman Posted on December 12, 2015 by David BergslandDecember 12, 2015

I ran across this one today. It’s certainly further than I want to go. But it makes the point. Going off the grid What unique strategies do you use? Creatives commonly need to face up to the fact that the world does not understand us—and doesn’t really want to know. Finding a time, place, and method of being creative is very important to those of us called to share or help another craft a vision.

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A short note about ebook licensing for your fonts

Skilled Workman Posted on October 4, 2015 by David BergslandOctober 4, 2015

As a font designer, Monotype is the biggest and best. They have all the top sites: fonts.com, myfonts.com, itc.com, and several more. They are the sites used by the pros, primarily. At the least, the pros sell their fonts there also. These places are where my fonts are sold, in most cases. Ebook licensing is very new I have the entire Adobe library and several others, maybe 4000 fonts total. None of them are licensed for anything other … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, ePUB3, Font Design, Fonts for sale, GraphicDesign, Recent Posts, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, ebook font license, ebook licensing, font design, font usage, Typography | 3 Replies

Pictures on Kindle remains a crap shoot

Skilled Workman Posted on October 1, 2015 by David BergslandOctober 1, 2015

I don’t do this as often as I should (read other people’s books on self-publishing). It’s not because I don’t think they have good things to offer. Mainly it’s the result of a reasoning and a fact. First, I don’t want to accidentally plagiarize someone while writing. So, I tend to keep others’ writing out of the memory banks. Second, most non-fiction on book publishing is far too expensive for my little budget. But I picked up a copy … Continue reading →

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New free images from Getty

Skilled Workman Posted on September 25, 2015 by David BergslandSeptember 25, 2015

As you know, most of the free image resources are not worth the time to look through them. The Getty Search Gateway has a huge quantity of images. Getty’s new offering is better than most, because it is well catalogued with a good search engine. Careful! You can waste a lot of time…

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