#book layout

[maddiesflame]

india fowler x gracelogan layouts

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[evacrstairs]

this is the golden age, of something good and right and real...

percy jackon and the olympians (percabeth) headers. like or reblog if you save or use, pls! 🌊

art by alexcopemann

[thatdisasterauthor]

I self publish for a lot of reasons, but one big one is that I love designing the ENTIRE book. I want the whole thing to tie together in fun ways. With my volcanic eruption book right now, the title is "Without a Star" so the scene dividers before and during the disaster are an empty star. But once the characters are safe, the scene divider becomes a solid star.

And that's such a tiny little detail that 99% of readers probably won't notice, but I love it!

And I put little decorations around the page numbers that look like seismograph lines! And the chapter header font has a feel of seismograph lines/an earthquake too! The little details are so fun, even when they aren't part of the actual words in the story.

[getvalentined]

Contemplating if I should sit down and assemble a "book layout for indie authors" packet or something. It wouldn't have exact technical details, nothing like how to set up headers/footers/etc in a particular program, but rather basic info on how a book should be set up, design terminology, recommended spacing, suggested typefaces, things like that.

Between Age of Scorpius and Shy Girl I'm beginning to think very few people actually know what a printed book should look like, but I'm not sure how much I can blame the authors in question since there also aren't a lot of easily digestible resources on it for folks with zero experience. It's honestly a really complex process, and most of the resources I've found for indies are either too basic, thereby missing key elements, or too granular, which I can imagine is overwhelming to people without design experience.

The fact is, if you're willing to take your time, you absolutely can do this yourself, and very few people will be able to tell the difference. It's totally fine you're an indie author and don't want to hire someone to lay the book out for you—or if you can't afford it, when I was active in the industry my rates were around $10 a page, and the current standard for actual professionals looks to be upwards of $30 an hour plus a deposit—but there are some things that I really think you need to understand if you want readers to have a pleasant experience.

Good book layout is basically invisible to 90 percent of readers, and as a result people don't realize how important it is. Conversely, bad book layout can literally cause migraines.

I dunno. Maybe I'll put something together. (Do y'all think I'd get in trouble if I used my AoS layout fix as an example?)

[skycowboys]

Updated crevasus spread for the artbook :) All that's left now is some technical alterations!

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Thatcherlyra - The Blood We Crave (The Hollow Boys #3)

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[warriorowan]

nikobran headers. please like or reblog if you save.

thats so yellowish