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Woodshed
time
You’ve
finished writing your book, now it’s time to
“Woodshed” it!
All
the tools you’d find in the woodshed like a saw to cut your
page size down to nails and carpenter’s glue to bind it
together. This is the mechanical Hammering it into the look and feel
of a book.
Hang
in there! Don’t feel overwhelmed with this phase of your
writing, this is normal, so don't fret.
You
should be the one to do the page work so when you make the pdf,
it'll be from your machine and it won't reflow on my machine or press.
Here
are a few tips that if you take care of on the front end, it will
save you a ton of pain and grief on the other end (pun intended). I
get many callers that say they wished we would have had this talk on
day one. So let's have it now.
Let's
start with the size you want to have as a finished book. If you take
a full 8.5 x 11 page, double spaced (the default size-great for
proofing), but when you resize this to 6 x 9 or smaller, you'll find
what was once 150 pages, is now more. (Another reason to size before
you get print bids.) The margins on this smaller document need to be
what you want them to be when you're finished. Take a ruler to a
bookstore and see what you like. Now that you have the correct
finished size, you'll be able to see what we would see if we would
have done that. Probably not a pretty sight. OK, time for clean-up duty.
Turn
on the invisibles or hidden characters by holding the shift and the
control keys down together and hit the number 8 key. This lets you
see the extra returns, page breaks, etc. Instead of having 15 returns
to get to a new top of page, use the insert page break. You can force
a page break any where you like or need. This helps with the title on
the bottom of a page when it should have been on the top of the next.
Some programs have an automatic Widow/Orphan setting-use it.
If
you have a hard time with left and right footers or headers (where
the page numbers sit), then I think you can center the information
and that would be better than having your even page data on the
binding edge. Check Headers or Page number settings for Odd and Even
Position setup.
I
make this offer to those we have a contract with (50% down): Send me
chapter 1 and STOP! If I see any red flags in chapter 1 before too
much time goes by, if caught soon enough&ldots; well, you get the
idea. It's back to that pain and grief problem on the other end. We
have to proof back to you before we print. Some of these things with
page reflow, bad fonts, etc. will be caught on your end before you
send us your Print-ready PDF. If not caught, the proofing process
takes forever.
Now
having said all of the above, if all of this is beyond what you want
to do or feel you can do, then we can and want to do it for you. This
is our love and passion! We of course need to add that to the bid
(check the rates here).
Most of the authors I work with love to write and are anxious to get
back to writing. Most hand me the disk and say, “Make me look
good!” and it’s well worth the per page charge to be free
of it all.
Design
Price List: (Use Back Button to return)
http://sunrisebooks.com/!PriceList.pdf
Disclaimer: Not
responsible for advice, ideas, suggestions and/or
programs. By
mentioning these programs or any other program, I’m in no way
endorsing these or any other programs for you and/or your project.
Any advice, ideas or suggestions and/or programs mentioned are
considered my opinion only and am considered not liable. Not
responsible for sales or lack of sales of your project.
Brian@SunriseBooks.com
SunrisePublishing@gmail.com |
