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Tim C. Taylor
Twitter: @timctaylor My hair's turned white since this photo. I blame having children :-) There's a beard too, but that defies explanation.
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Format YOUR Print Book
Fully illustrated. Kindle & paperback editions. I use this to produce my own books. See the 'Update March 2019' menu item in this website for updates.
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Tag Archives: Book formatting
Format YOUR Print Book with Createspace — second edition is coming
My short guide to laying out books for Createspace was the first book I wrote that sold over a thousand copies (though not the first book I published to reach that mark). I’ve written an awful lot of technical guides … Continue reading
Posted in Book launch
Tagged Book formatting, Createspace, Microsoft Word, opentype, paperback, self-publishing
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I’m a hot new Amazon release… official!
I was chuffed when I logged on this morning to see that my formatting book was the #1 hot new release in its category at amazon.com In the print and design section of Amazon books I was at #9 out … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements
Tagged amazon bestseller, Book formatting, book layout, Createspace, hot new release, self-publishing, text layout
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Format Your Book for Createspace – promotional price expiring soon
I recently published a Kindle eBook explaining how to format books for Createspace and Lulu using Microsoft Word. It’s available now from Amazon at a special launch price 99c or 77p. The price will rise soon to $2.99 /£2.06, so … Continue reading
Posted in Promotion
Tagged 99c, Book formatting, book layout, Createspace, free, librarything, lulu, Microsoft Word, special offer
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Tips on formatting your print book for Createspace and Lulu: Part5 – Styles
Click here for part 4 [click on images to see a larger version] Tip #7 Introducing styles Styles are a means to define a set of formatting instructions, that you can then apply to parts of the document that you … Continue reading
Posted in Writing Tips
Tagged Book formatting, book layout, Createspace, lulu, Microsoft Word, self-publishing, style sets, styles, writing
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Formatting your print book: what else would you like to know?
A few weeks ago, I started writing up notes on print formatting so I would have a reference to work with when doing formatting work for clients. Why not add some screenshots, I thought, and post them to my blog? … Continue reading
Posted in Writing Tips
Tagged Book formatting, book layout, Createspace, formatting, lulu, Microsoft Word, POD
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Tips on formatting your print book for Createspace and Lulu: Part4 Page Numbers
Tip #6 Page numbers Click here for part 3 [click on images to see a larger version] We’ve talked a lot about headers and footers, but there are a few specifics to do with page numbers. Word 2007 introduced a … Continue reading
Posted in Writing Tips
Tagged Book formatting, book layout, Createspace, fields, front matter, Microsoft Word, page number
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Tim C. Taylor 
My books are up for awards…
The British Fantasy Society recently announced the shortlist for its annual awards, and two of my books are up for awards… … except you won’t see my name on the list because I didn’t write those books; I didn’t even … Continue reading →