![]() ![]() Joel is also the founder of the online training course, The Self-Publishing Roadmap. He’s been launching the careers of self-publishers since 1994 and writes, a popular blog on book design, book marketing and the future of the book. Joel is an award-winning book designer, a blogger, and the author of A Self-Publisher’s Companion: Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish. Just enter the coupon code template46 in the shopping cart when you’re ready to check out. Special: During April, 2013, to celebrate our opening, we’re giving all your readers 46% off anything on our site. So if you’re planning on doing a book in Word, save yourself hours of frustration and the whole “amateur” look. It’s got everything you need in it that explains how books are made. ![]() The templates come with complete instructions in our step-by-step Formatting Guide and they also come with fonts I’ve hand picked to give your book a stylish and highly readable look.įor authors who haven’t put together a book manuscript before, we’ve put together a massive free resource, the Book Construction Blueprint. Very soon you’ll have a real book to send off to a print on demand vendor.Īnd if you want to do print and ebooks versions, we have template bundles you can use to keep your design consistent, and which will convert easily into ebook formats. Then you replace it with your own manuscript and use the preformatted styles. You open the template file in Word and strip out the sample text that’s in the file. Others have all the nuts and bolts you need for complex nonfiction books. Some are intended for novels, narrative nonfiction, and memoirs. At our new site,, we offer authors a growing collection of beautifully designed, industry-standard book templates. ![]() Together, we’ve created the solution that will end my war with Word for good. Atkins, an indie author and technologist who knows Word inside out. Instead of going to war with my readers, why not do what I said I would do, help them “build better books”? “Practical advice to help build better books”Īnd I had a flash of inspiration. Then one day, I looked at the tagline on my blog. I had failed to get those authors to drop the program they already owned and knew how to use. As a professional book designer, I’ve always had real typesetting software designed to create long documents, and no matter how good you can make Word look, it’s never going to equal the pages that can be created with a tool like Adobe InDesign.)įor years I tried to convince authors to hire a professional book designer instead of doing their books in a word processing program.īut you know what? Thousands of them just kept doing it. (Some readers have asked me if I’ve ever created a book in Word, and I confess I haven’t. When ebooks started to explode on the scene, Word became even more important, since it became a kind of standard for conversion into ebook formats.įor instance, the huge and hugely-popular Smashwords for many years only accepted files in Microsoft Word format. And the majority of books created in Word are typeset in Times New Roman, intended for newspapers and business reports.ĭespite these limitations, authors kept struggling with Word.
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