How authors should review a publisher’s page design

How authors should review a publisher’s page design

ByJosh Bernoff

At some point in your book’s publishing cycle — typically after you’ve submitted a manuscript for copy edit, but before you see page layouts — your publisher will share a page design and a full cover design. (If you’re self-publishing, you’ll review test designs from the designer or publishing services company you hired.) Remember, it’s…

Using Microsoft Word to prepare a book manuscript? Avoid these 14 mistakes.
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Using Microsoft Word to prepare a book manuscript? Avoid these 14 mistakes.

ByJosh Bernoff

You think you know how to use Microsoft Word to write? What you’re doing may be fine for creating a draft to print out, but confusing to the people doing the book page layout and design. If you’re preparing content to be laid out in pages, here are a dozen-plus simple mistakes you really ought…