Format your book for Createspace

Did you ever want to print your own book? Now you can!

Welcome to the online page for Format YOUR Print Book with Createspace … and Lulu, using Microsoft Word.

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Here you can find updates, samples, and the latest links to additional resources on the internet.

Format YOUR Print Book is available now as a Kindle eBook, and in paperback:

eBook: $2.99 at amazon.com | £2.00 at amazon.co.uk

Paperback $5.99 at Createspace.com | $5.99 at amazon.com | £4.99 at amazon.co.uk

Why buy this book?

Publishing a print book with Createspace or Lulu is fairly easy. But unless you know how to lay out a book, AND how to achieve the results you want in your word processor, the result will brand you an amateur.

In this guide, I will show you how to format your book’s interior:

* What you need to know about book layout and typsesetting to get professional results.

* How to use Microsoft Word 2007 to achieve those results (with notes for Word 2003 users)

* eBook tips: how to format your manuscript in Word so you can move easily between print, Kindle, ePUB, and Smashwords editions. (Note: this is not a comprehensive guide to building eBooks).

Try before you buy…

Several extracts from the book are available for you to read and use on this website. Click here to see all my posts on Writing Tips, including the extracts from this book.

Topics covered in the book are:

Part1: Page Layout

Layout strategy  —  Copying page setup from a template  —  Headers & Footers  —  Link to previous  —  Sections  —  Smashwords, Kindles, and sections  —  Page numbers

Part2: Styles

Introducing Styles  —  Defining styles  —  Convert direct formatting into styles  —  Create a style family  —  Why styles again?  —  Editing your styles  —  Sorting out a style soup  —  Don’t lose your italics!  —  Justification  —  Justification and eBook formatting  —  Paragraph indentation  —  Paragraphs in non-fiction and poetry —  Scene breaks and letters  —  Paragraph spacing  —  The spacing gotcha  —  A starting set of styles  —  Leading  —  Super style sets

Part 3: Details

Dinkus asterisms  —  Simple internal images  —  Images that aren’t 300dpi  —  The final tidies  —  Do you need to upload a pdf?  —  Embedding fonts  —  Drop caps and small caps  —  Blank pages  —  Widows and orphans  —  Cover art tips  —  Createspace vs. Lulu  —  Front Matter  —  Where to find further information