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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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Tag Archives: Createspace
Tips for self-publishers: Typography 103 — Kerning and Spacing
If you look back at the advanced font tab in Microsoft Word, there’s an entry there for Kerning. This isn’t specific to OpenType fonts and is something you should keep an eye on with your titles (for example, chapter headings, … Continue reading
Tips for self-publishers: Typography 102 – OpenType
Special Effects with OpenType If you look up the fonts on your computer you will see nearly all are defined as Truetype or OpenType (in Windows you do this from the Fonts section of the Control Panel app). For our … Continue reading
Tips for self-publishers: Typography 101
We’re going to be talking about fonts in the next few posts. Before we do, it makes sense to introduce a few basic terms and concepts in typography: the science and art of lettering. Let’s look at a letter Don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Writing Tips
Tagged Createspace, faux glyphs, fonts, self-publishing, typeface, typography, typography101, Word, writing
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Tips for self-publishers: Table of Contents in Word
For anthologies and most non-fiction, a table of contents (TOC) is essential for readers to find their way around your paperback book. It’s also a way of showing off the contents of your book for potential browsers, and that includes … Continue reading
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Tagged book layout, books, Createspace, cross-references, formatting, publishing, self-publishing, table of contents, Word
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Self-publishing paperbacks: faux fonts and small caps
There’s a wealth of guidance online to help you lay out your book manuscript. One of the terms you will come across is ‘faux’ meaning your word processor (or typesetting software) can’t access a properly designed glyph and so has … Continue reading
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Tagged Createspace, faux glyphs, faux small caps, font style-linking, Mac, publishing, self-publishing, small caps, Windows, Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2011, Word 2013
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Out Now! Format Your Print Book for Createspace: 2nd Edition
Out now is the second edition of my book on how to produce your book for Createspace using Microsoft Word. The book is twice as big, has many more images, updated to cover changes to Createspace and Word versions up … Continue reading
Posted in Book launch
Tagged Createspace, formatting, Microsoft Word, publishing, self-oublishing, typeset
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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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Adventures in typesetting: poetry book layouts and printer’s ornaments
I’ve been laying out some poetry paperbacks this week for Watermark Publishing and Greyhart Press. I think poetry is my favourite of all genres to format (at least in print) because it gives licence to design the page, in a … Continue reading
Microsoft Word layout tip: view gridlines to anchor pictures
I posted a few days ago about gutters and margins for printed books. The flip-side of setting margins is keeping everything that gets printed within those margins. The easiest way to fall foul of this, and get those dreaded”you’ve got … Continue reading
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Tagged Createspace, images, layout, margins, Microsoft Word, paperback
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How to Set Margins: Microsoft Word vs. Createspace vs. Traditional Typesetting
I’m currently working on a paperback and eBook layout commission for an illustrated children’s book: Cassie Kindly and the Naughty Christmas Fairies. The body text is in two columns, although the delightful illustrations of this 22-page book (which my six-year-old … Continue reading
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Tagged Createspace, gutter margin, margins, Microsoft Word, paperback, self-publishing, typesetting
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