Is there such a place that is decent on :money for book typesetting and perhaps also book design? The place I found that claims to be "budget" is really $600.00 unlike their claim on the site as $250.00 plus a"slightly" higher fee if you're working with another publisher....blah, slightly isn't a word I would've used :\ Does anyone know of a place, in New England would be good.
- Status
Stay off the Internet. Find a place in your town using your phone book. Check with local printers.
This may sound like a silly question, I know...does local printers that usually print photocopies and such usually do typesetting? I looked in my phonebook...no web addy's..but I suppose I could travel and ask them, hopefully some do it for a decent price.
What town are you in?
Look, I could point you to a couple of pro-level typesetters who work for major publishers. I think you'll be disappointed by the prices they charge, though the results will be pro level.
So ... call your local newspaper or job printer. Even a place that does photocopying may know where you can get typesetting done.
You don't need to go there, at least not yet. Call 'em on the phone.
Is this for the book that's coming out in January? This is December... when are you going to press?
Did you budget the cost of typesetting into your book's overall cost to produce? The cover price is based on that, y'know.
And ... where was this typesetter that you mentioned in the first message? URL?
Look, I could point you to a couple of pro-level typesetters who work for major publishers. I think you'll be disappointed by the prices they charge, though the results will be pro level.
So ... call your local newspaper or job printer. Even a place that does photocopying may know where you can get typesetting done.
You don't need to go there, at least not yet. Call 'em on the phone.
Is this for the book that's coming out in January? This is December... when are you going to press?
Did you budget the cost of typesetting into your book's overall cost to produce? The cover price is based on that, y'know.
And ... where was this typesetter that you mentioned in the first message? URL?
I didn't post the URL of the typesetting place that I have mentioned above but I can post it, if you'd like. The printer that I'm planning on working with is 2 weeks for 1000 books, only thing is the typesetting, the company doesn't do those services...so I'm in need of one.
If you want to keep the URL private, you can email me.
If you haven't gone to press yet, then there's still a chance of getting a blurb quote on the cover. Did you ever contact Ms. Steele? Did you send out galleys for review?
If you haven't gone to press yet, then there's still a chance of getting a blurb quote on the cover. Did you ever contact Ms. Steele? Did you send out galleys for review?
I don't mind giving the URL out.. Book typesetting that I was talking about. Maybe someone else will be able to afford them. I can't give any copies out for review or Ms. Steele because I can't get any copies...that's wot I need the time setting for 
Once I have the typesetting done, I can get my book in copies from the book printer I have in mind. But I will look up in the phone book the printing companies and ask if they do typesetting. I would like to have review copies out but I can't even get a copy yet.
I had figured that I would have the typesetting done, have copies printed and have my own site...then while I have copies...also send out some review and possibly get a blurb...then I could add wot was said on my website.
Once I have the typesetting done, I can get my book in copies from the book printer I have in mind. But I will look up in the phone book the printing companies and ask if they do typesetting. I would like to have review copies out but I can't even get a copy yet. I had figured that I would have the typesetting done, have copies printed and have my own site...then while I have copies...also send out some review and possibly get a blurb...then I could add wot was said on my website.
Take your text, print it out from your printer, (Times New Roman, single space, right-and-left justified) take it to Kinkos, get some advance reading copies made up. There you go for reviews and so on. Many authors will give you blurbs based on manuscripts. (We're used to it.)
Okay, I see they're charging $250 for typesetting the book, and $250 for designing the covers. That's $500 total. Bar code for $25 ... yeah, I can see where they're coming from.
You'll be able to go cheaper by doing it yourself, depending on your skill with Pagemaker.
What format does your printer want your material in? You should be working closely with your printer at this time. Who does he or she suggest for typesetting?
Okay, I see they're charging $250 for typesetting the book, and $250 for designing the covers. That's $500 total. Bar code for $25 ... yeah, I can see where they're coming from.
You'll be able to go cheaper by doing it yourself, depending on your skill with Pagemaker.
What format does your printer want your material in? You should be working closely with your printer at this time. Who does he or she suggest for typesetting?
Yeah... but I have the cover already designed and I have a barcode and such. Would Midwest Review, review the manuscript? I'm not sure who I would give reviews to in a manuscript form to be honest.
In case it looks weird for my name, I decided to create a global account, which is why my posts are so low.
In case it looks weird for my name, I decided to create a global account, which is why my posts are so low.
<a href="http://www.midwestbookreview.com/get_rev.htm" target="_new">Midwest Book Review</a>only accepts finished books, after the date of publication. Other reviewers take advance reading copies (which can just be photocopies of typescript -- I've seen 'em) bound in cheap paper. That's where Kinkos comes in.
ARCs go to the newspapers, magazines, and others who you decided you wanted to have review your book. They want to be able to run the review the week the book comes out, if not the week before it hits the bookstores.
You'll also want their review quotes on your cover; it works both ways. They'll send you an advance copy of their review for just that purpose. You see why review copies should go out months in advance?
If you have the cover already designed (in a format that your printer likes) then all you need is a place to typeset your pages. Ask your printer. Really.
ARCs go to the newspapers, magazines, and others who you decided you wanted to have review your book. They want to be able to run the review the week the book comes out, if not the week before it hits the bookstores.
You'll also want their review quotes on your cover; it works both ways. They'll send you an advance copy of their review for just that purpose. You see why review copies should go out months in advance?
If you have the cover already designed (in a format that your printer likes) then all you need is a place to typeset your pages. Ask your printer. Really.
I asked my printer if they typeset but they said they don't. I looked on www.cnet.com for the adobe pagemaker you were talking about. They give you a 30 day free trial. Do you use it? Is it extremely or moderately hard to learn? That's the only thing holding me down. My illustrator uses an application like that and can give the illustrations to me on disk and the originals so that's all taken care of. I think I need to learn where to put the illustrations in the typesetting..does Abobe Pagemaker let you do that?
You've seen manuscripts in cheap bound paper that's been reviewed...do you know of a website that has this? I see why it's better to have it in advanced than later.
You've seen manuscripts in cheap bound paper that's been reviewed...do you know of a website that has this? I see why it's better to have it in advanced than later.
pagemaker's not so bad. ask your printer what they want specifically. do they work with pagemaker or do they want quark express? if you give them a file with your manuscript in pagemaker, will they prepare from that?
i did a lit mag in college and used pagemaker for it. we would give the pagemaker file to the printer, they'd prepare it for print and call us if there were any problems with the files, formatting, etc. before they went to print with it.
i did a lit mag in college and used pagemaker for it. we would give the pagemaker file to the printer, they'd prepare it for print and call us if there were any problems with the files, formatting, etc. before they went to print with it.
No, I don't use Pagemaker. My publishers do the typesetting ... I just give them a typescript (double spaced, one inch margins, standard manuscript format).
Pagemaker isn't hard to learn, so I'm told; what's hard to learn is doing it well.
My understanding is that Pagemaker lets you put the illustrations in wherever you want them. (Are these color or B&W illos?) I'm not sure of what format you need to have them in.
Yes, ARCs are usually just perfectbound cheapies, and sometimes are merely shot-down photocopies of the author's original manuscript. I've even seen 'em with penciled copyediting marks reproduced on 'em.
A website? Darned if I know of one. Kinkos or Staples (or Sir Speedy) would be where to try; that's my guess. (Or a local print shop. Does your local high school or junior college have a print shop?)
(Perhaps Cafe Press (http://www.cafepress.com) has something set up -- they'll be expensive, though.)
Pagemaker isn't hard to learn, so I'm told; what's hard to learn is doing it well.
My understanding is that Pagemaker lets you put the illustrations in wherever you want them. (Are these color or B&W illos?) I'm not sure of what format you need to have them in.
Yes, ARCs are usually just perfectbound cheapies, and sometimes are merely shot-down photocopies of the author's original manuscript. I've even seen 'em with penciled copyediting marks reproduced on 'em.
A website? Darned if I know of one. Kinkos or Staples (or Sir Speedy) would be where to try; that's my guess. (Or a local print shop. Does your local high school or junior college have a print shop?)
(Perhaps Cafe Press (http://www.cafepress.com) has something set up -- they'll be expensive, though.)
I'll make sure one last time before I attempt to learn pagemaker. I have a colored cover and back cover and 5 black and white illustrations.
Oh, I mean a website for reviewers that will review a manuscript.
Oh, I mean a website for reviewers that will review a manuscript.
I'm unaware of a website that lists reviewers who will review a manuscript.
As far as major reviewers who will review an advance reading copy: all of them.
As far as who you should send ARCs to: who do you want to have review your book? Local press? State press? National press?
Where are you likely to a) get a review, and b) have the review be useful (that is, where people who read the review will actually be able to get a copy of your book)?
As far as major reviewers who will review an advance reading copy: all of them.
As far as who you should send ARCs to: who do you want to have review your book? Local press? State press? National press?
Where are you likely to a) get a review, and b) have the review be useful (that is, where people who read the review will actually be able to get a copy of your book)?
Speaking as a reviewer...if you decide to approach reviewers individually to request a review, be sure to send an individual, personal e-mail that indicates why you're approaching that person (i.e., you know they review children's books and you're wondering if they'd be willing to review yours). There's nothing more alienating than a mass e-mail to "Dear Reviewer"; I usually don't even respond to approaches like this.
Here are a couple of great children's book writers' websites--you may be able to find some pointers there about review venues to approach:
www.underdown.org/
write4kids.com/
You also might want to consider joining the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, which has a lot of good publications and helpful information; they also, I'm told, put on excellent conferences: www.scbwi.org/.
- Victoria
www.writerbeware.com/
www.victoriastrauss.com/
Here are a couple of great children's book writers' websites--you may be able to find some pointers there about review venues to approach:
www.underdown.org/
write4kids.com/
You also might want to consider joining the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, which has a lot of good publications and helpful information; they also, I'm told, put on excellent conferences: www.scbwi.org/.
- Victoria
www.writerbeware.com/
www.victoriastrauss.com/
Okay, I know who I'd want to review my manuscript, in fact some have seen it. I'll make sure not to have it say "Dear Reviewer" that must be annoying since it's not personal.
Decent typesetting
PageMaker's my personal favorite. It has a steep learning curve, though it's not as steep as Quark Express, which is the other standard professional page layout application.
You can find decent typesetting on the web, but you really have to know what you're doing, so probably that's not a good option for you at this stage.
The best way to find a good cheap typesetter is to ask someone who buys typesetting. If your printer doesn't set type, ask him who does. Ask production outfits like WindHaven and Swordsmith.
Just to get this clear: are you talking about processing electronic text, or re-keyboarding a hardcopy manuscript? It makes a big difference.
If you have electronic text and want to turn it into an informal but readable advance copy, directions follow. They assume you use Microsoft Word. If you use some other word processing application, adjust accordingly. The underlying principles are the same.
1. Turn on the option that turns plain quotes into right-hand and left-hand directional quotes. Then do a search-and-replace in which you replace double quotes with double quotes and single quotes with single quotes. Word will automatically reformat all your quotation marks.
2. Turn all instances of double dashes -- like this -- into proper em-dashes with no space on either side of them. An em-dash is also sometimes known as a "long dash." Taking the spaces out to either side of them will not be correct in all instances, but it'll be correct in most instances, and it's better than having raw double dashes in the text.
3. Turn three-dots-in-a-row ellipses into proper ellipses. In cases where there are four dots in a row, the first dot is a period and stays a period, and the three dots following it are replaced.
4. Do a search-and-replace to remove all instances of double spaces. I don't care what anybody's typing teacher told them; double spaces don't belong in proportionally-spaced justified text.
5. If you have at any point typed words all-caps for emphasis, replace them with small caps. Full-size caps look okay on a manuscript page, but they're disproportionately huge on a typeset page, look bad, and are hard to read. Note: You're allowed to use a full-size cap if one of your small-caps words would normally start with a capital letter.
6. Most word processing programs have a default paragraph indentation that's two or three times too big for typeset text. Check yours against a professionally typeset book and correct as needed.
7. Whatever you do, don't set typeset single-spaced text the full width of a letter-size page. Your eye can't follow a line that long. It makes your writing harder to read. If you're going to use 8-1/2" x 11" paper, use a two-column format.
7.5 Very narrow columns are also hard to read. If you're tempted to use them: Don't.
8. After you format, justify, and spellcheck your text, go through and look for lines with unnaturally wide spacing between words. This is also hard to read. Try to snug them up by breaking -- that is, hyphenating -- an adjacent word. Break words where the dictionary breaks them into syllables.
8.5 Don't get carried away. You're just trying to avoid grossly mis-spaced type. One wordbreak is fine. Having two of them close together impedes readability. Three is excessive. Three in a row is called a ladder, and it's an error. Don't commit it.
9. Word has an automatic hyphenation feature that'll do your wordbreaks for you. I never, ever use it. Go for manual hyphenation. Word processors don't know as much about language as you do.
10. Use a decent serif typeface. You may not set body text in sanserif type. Palatino is good. So are Garamond and Galliard. Times is okay, but I think it looks pinched and crabbed. Useful tip: If you want your book to take up fewer pages, set it in Times. If you want it to take up more, try New Century Schoolbook.
11. Ten-point type is good. It's not wastefully big, but almost everyone can read it.
12. Turn off the drag-and-drop feature. Bad things happen to books in its vicinity.
13. If you want to get fancy, have your name at the top of every left-hand page, and the title of your book at the top of every right-hand page. Put the page numbers at the bottom. If you want to save a couple of lines per page, you can put the page numbers at the top, up with the title and your name. Tip: If you're talking to someone in production, the title and author name at the top are called running heads, and the page number is called the folio.
14. You can set up your chapters so they always start on a right-hand page, or so they start on either right-hand or left-hand pages; or you can leave some space and start a new chapter on the same page where the previous one ended. However, there are two things you cannot do. When you're running-in chapters, you can't start a new chapter if there's so little room that you only get the chapter head or the chapter head plus one or two lines of text at the bottom of a page. I opine that four lines of text are the minimum. Opinions vary. The other thing you may not do -- and this is something you may not do under any circumstances -- is leave a right-hand page blank. Blank left-hand pages are okay, but a blank right-hand page looks like an error. (Obviously, you can have blank right-hand pages at the end of the book. That's different.)
15. If you're going to bind your pages, leave a decent gutter.
16. You need a title page. It will have the title of your book, followed by your name. You're allowed to use a somewhat larger typesize, and if you wish, a reasonably chaste display face. Don't get fancy. This is an advance copy, not a book design. You want it to say, "Hello, I'm someone who knows this is just an advance copy."
17. On the back of your title page, if you're duplicating your pages back-to-back), or immediately following your title page if you're doing one-sided printing, will be your copyright page. On it, you will say:
Copyright (c) [date] by [name].
All rights reserved.
Some distance below that, you will neatly print your name and address. The copyright page will be in the same plain typeface you used for the text of the book. You will not dress it up. You will not add any bits of funny business. Why? Because nothing could possibly look more amateurish.
18. Dedications, acknowledgements, and other optional frontmatter doesn't belong in an advance reading copy. A table of contents is allowable, but is certainly not required.
19. There should be no marketing copy on an advance manuscript. If you want to say something of that sort, it goes in an accompanying letter.
20. When you've printed out the final version of your pages, stop. Have someone else look over them. Ideally, have someone else read them. Don't immediately have them duplicated. No matter how careful you are, bad things happen. Trust me on that one.
PageMaker's my personal favorite. It has a steep learning curve, though it's not as steep as Quark Express, which is the other standard professional page layout application.
You can find decent typesetting on the web, but you really have to know what you're doing, so probably that's not a good option for you at this stage.
The best way to find a good cheap typesetter is to ask someone who buys typesetting. If your printer doesn't set type, ask him who does. Ask production outfits like WindHaven and Swordsmith.
Just to get this clear: are you talking about processing electronic text, or re-keyboarding a hardcopy manuscript? It makes a big difference.
If you have electronic text and want to turn it into an informal but readable advance copy, directions follow. They assume you use Microsoft Word. If you use some other word processing application, adjust accordingly. The underlying principles are the same.
1. Turn on the option that turns plain quotes into right-hand and left-hand directional quotes. Then do a search-and-replace in which you replace double quotes with double quotes and single quotes with single quotes. Word will automatically reformat all your quotation marks.
2. Turn all instances of double dashes -- like this -- into proper em-dashes with no space on either side of them. An em-dash is also sometimes known as a "long dash." Taking the spaces out to either side of them will not be correct in all instances, but it'll be correct in most instances, and it's better than having raw double dashes in the text.
3. Turn three-dots-in-a-row ellipses into proper ellipses. In cases where there are four dots in a row, the first dot is a period and stays a period, and the three dots following it are replaced.
4. Do a search-and-replace to remove all instances of double spaces. I don't care what anybody's typing teacher told them; double spaces don't belong in proportionally-spaced justified text.
5. If you have at any point typed words all-caps for emphasis, replace them with small caps. Full-size caps look okay on a manuscript page, but they're disproportionately huge on a typeset page, look bad, and are hard to read. Note: You're allowed to use a full-size cap if one of your small-caps words would normally start with a capital letter.
6. Most word processing programs have a default paragraph indentation that's two or three times too big for typeset text. Check yours against a professionally typeset book and correct as needed.
7. Whatever you do, don't set typeset single-spaced text the full width of a letter-size page. Your eye can't follow a line that long. It makes your writing harder to read. If you're going to use 8-1/2" x 11" paper, use a two-column format.
7.5 Very narrow columns are also hard to read. If you're tempted to use them: Don't.
8. After you format, justify, and spellcheck your text, go through and look for lines with unnaturally wide spacing between words. This is also hard to read. Try to snug them up by breaking -- that is, hyphenating -- an adjacent word. Break words where the dictionary breaks them into syllables.
8.5 Don't get carried away. You're just trying to avoid grossly mis-spaced type. One wordbreak is fine. Having two of them close together impedes readability. Three is excessive. Three in a row is called a ladder, and it's an error. Don't commit it.
9. Word has an automatic hyphenation feature that'll do your wordbreaks for you. I never, ever use it. Go for manual hyphenation. Word processors don't know as much about language as you do.
10. Use a decent serif typeface. You may not set body text in sanserif type. Palatino is good. So are Garamond and Galliard. Times is okay, but I think it looks pinched and crabbed. Useful tip: If you want your book to take up fewer pages, set it in Times. If you want it to take up more, try New Century Schoolbook.
11. Ten-point type is good. It's not wastefully big, but almost everyone can read it.
12. Turn off the drag-and-drop feature. Bad things happen to books in its vicinity.
13. If you want to get fancy, have your name at the top of every left-hand page, and the title of your book at the top of every right-hand page. Put the page numbers at the bottom. If you want to save a couple of lines per page, you can put the page numbers at the top, up with the title and your name. Tip: If you're talking to someone in production, the title and author name at the top are called running heads, and the page number is called the folio.
14. You can set up your chapters so they always start on a right-hand page, or so they start on either right-hand or left-hand pages; or you can leave some space and start a new chapter on the same page where the previous one ended. However, there are two things you cannot do. When you're running-in chapters, you can't start a new chapter if there's so little room that you only get the chapter head or the chapter head plus one or two lines of text at the bottom of a page. I opine that four lines of text are the minimum. Opinions vary. The other thing you may not do -- and this is something you may not do under any circumstances -- is leave a right-hand page blank. Blank left-hand pages are okay, but a blank right-hand page looks like an error. (Obviously, you can have blank right-hand pages at the end of the book. That's different.)
15. If you're going to bind your pages, leave a decent gutter.
16. You need a title page. It will have the title of your book, followed by your name. You're allowed to use a somewhat larger typesize, and if you wish, a reasonably chaste display face. Don't get fancy. This is an advance copy, not a book design. You want it to say, "Hello, I'm someone who knows this is just an advance copy."
17. On the back of your title page, if you're duplicating your pages back-to-back), or immediately following your title page if you're doing one-sided printing, will be your copyright page. On it, you will say:
Copyright (c) [date] by [name].
All rights reserved.
Some distance below that, you will neatly print your name and address. The copyright page will be in the same plain typeface you used for the text of the book. You will not dress it up. You will not add any bits of funny business. Why? Because nothing could possibly look more amateurish.
18. Dedications, acknowledgements, and other optional frontmatter doesn't belong in an advance reading copy. A table of contents is allowable, but is certainly not required.
19. There should be no marketing copy on an advance manuscript. If you want to say something of that sort, it goes in an accompanying letter.
20. When you've printed out the final version of your pages, stop. Have someone else look over them. Ideally, have someone else read them. Don't immediately have them duplicated. No matter how careful you are, bad things happen. Trust me on that one.
Re: Decent typesetting
Hapi's given you some very good advice, Sunrise.
Have you checked out at copy of The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 14th Edition
by Dan Poynter from your library? If they don't have it, they can get it via InterLibrary Loan.
Hapi's given you some very good advice, Sunrise.
Have you checked out at copy of The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 14th Edition
by Dan Poynter from your library? If they don't have it, they can get it via InterLibrary Loan.
Some decent sources on book design
Thank you, Jim.
Sunrise, if you run a google search on book design, you'll turn up hundreds of outfits that want you to pay them to design your book, and not many websites that'll tell you how to do it on your own. I went out and grabbed a handful of real ones for you. I don't guarantee that they're the absolute best websites on this subject, but they're honest.
Some book design considerations:
web.utk.edu/~wrobinso/561_critique.html
An admirably finicky piece baout doing wordcounts, except it leaves out the part where you take the total character count and divide by six:
www.printusa.com/articles/reinhard.htm
Another article on how to format an informal reading copy in MSWord, only the author thinks it's an article about designing books (okay, I'm being snotty, I'll stop now):
www.clearlakemedia.net/se...word1.html
If you ignore the bits about using SGML, and concentrate on the rest of the information, this is trove of clearly-written observations about the (sometimes arcane) parameters of book design:
www.ucpress.edu/scan/epub/ucp_dtd.html
I believe there's an article on Victoria's website about dealing with printers, and how to distinguish printers from vanity publishing operations.
Thank you, Jim.
Sunrise, if you run a google search on book design, you'll turn up hundreds of outfits that want you to pay them to design your book, and not many websites that'll tell you how to do it on your own. I went out and grabbed a handful of real ones for you. I don't guarantee that they're the absolute best websites on this subject, but they're honest.
Some book design considerations:
web.utk.edu/~wrobinso/561_critique.html
An admirably finicky piece baout doing wordcounts, except it leaves out the part where you take the total character count and divide by six:
www.printusa.com/articles/reinhard.htm
Another article on how to format an informal reading copy in MSWord, only the author thinks it's an article about designing books (okay, I'm being snotty, I'll stop now):
www.clearlakemedia.net/se...word1.html
If you ignore the bits about using SGML, and concentrate on the rest of the information, this is trove of clearly-written observations about the (sometimes arcane) parameters of book design:
www.ucpress.edu/scan/epub/ucp_dtd.html
I believe there's an article on Victoria's website about dealing with printers, and how to distinguish printers from vanity publishing operations.
Dealing with printers
I found the article. It's in two places, neither of which is Victoria's website. Oh, well.
Here they are:
www.sff.net/featuredesk/o...cation.asp
www.sfwa.org/beware/selfpublishing.html
I found the article. It's in two places, neither of which is Victoria's website. Oh, well.
Here they are:
www.sff.net/featuredesk/o...cation.asp
www.sfwa.org/beware/selfpublishing.html
Re: Dealing with Pagemaker
Does Pagemaker allow you to put in illustrations and a back cover? Also, if you're using Microsoft Works, would that be a problem? Can Pagemaker be transformed in PDF format? I have found some typesetters =) Did a lot of research :grin
I have checked out some self publishing books, but not The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 14th Edition. How does InterLibrary Loan work? I've heard of it, but I've never done it.
Hapi- Thanks for finding some sites, I'll look them over...about 9 new typesetting service people wrote me back with offers. I'll make sure to read about the article if they are vanity or not.
Does Pagemaker allow you to put in illustrations and a back cover? Also, if you're using Microsoft Works, would that be a problem? Can Pagemaker be transformed in PDF format? I have found some typesetters =) Did a lot of research :grin
I have checked out some self publishing books, but not The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 14th Edition. How does InterLibrary Loan work? I've heard of it, but I've never done it.
Hapi- Thanks for finding some sites, I'll look them over...about 9 new typesetting service people wrote me back with offers. I'll make sure to read about the article if they are vanity or not.
Re: Dealing with Pagemaker
Pagemaker lets you do anything you want. You just have to set it up first.
Microsoft Word is a subset of Microsoft Works.
I don't understand what you're asking concerning PDF format.
You can make your local librarian happy by going to her and asking her to explain Interlibrary Loan. The basic info is that Interlibrary Loan is a system for those situations where your local library doesn't have a book you really, really want, but another library does. Your library passes along your request. The other library loans them the book, and they loan it to you. It's not the fastest system in the world, but it means that if you're willing to wait a little while, your bitty branch library can give you access to all kinds of rare, specialized, or otherwise unlikely books.
I'll take a chance and guess that if you don't know about interlibrary loan, you also don't know about reference librarians. They're your friend at least as much as Google is. Reference librarians get tired of being asked to do obvious things the patrons could have done for themselves, but if you're really trying to ferret out information, they're enormously helpful.
If your library only has one librarian, he-or-she is it. Cultivate his-or-her acquaintance.
About offers to do your typesetting for you: they may or may not be vanity operations. On top of that, they may or may not be good. A bad typesetter is worse than no typesetter at all.
How many words total are we talking about here?
Pagemaker lets you do anything you want. You just have to set it up first.
Microsoft Word is a subset of Microsoft Works.
I don't understand what you're asking concerning PDF format.
You can make your local librarian happy by going to her and asking her to explain Interlibrary Loan. The basic info is that Interlibrary Loan is a system for those situations where your local library doesn't have a book you really, really want, but another library does. Your library passes along your request. The other library loans them the book, and they loan it to you. It's not the fastest system in the world, but it means that if you're willing to wait a little while, your bitty branch library can give you access to all kinds of rare, specialized, or otherwise unlikely books.
I'll take a chance and guess that if you don't know about interlibrary loan, you also don't know about reference librarians. They're your friend at least as much as Google is. Reference librarians get tired of being asked to do obvious things the patrons could have done for themselves, but if you're really trying to ferret out information, they're enormously helpful.
If your library only has one librarian, he-or-she is it. Cultivate his-or-her acquaintance.
About offers to do your typesetting for you: they may or may not be vanity operations. On top of that, they may or may not be good. A bad typesetter is worse than no typesetter at all.
How many words total are we talking about here?
Re: Dealing with Pagemaker
Without the copyright page, thank you page and about the author page...it's 23,424 words. Now it's a children's novel, not an adult's. My printer says it has to be in PDF format for them to print it, or hardcopy.
I would think that learning pagemaker would be good for me to learn and it would save me money and I would have control over it. Main thing is, I want my book typesetted with the illustrations so that I can send it to my printer and print up copies and have it on my website, which I have yet to set up. That's the main problem that I'm currently trying to overcome.
Without the copyright page, thank you page and about the author page...it's 23,424 words. Now it's a children's novel, not an adult's. My printer says it has to be in PDF format for them to print it, or hardcopy.
I would think that learning pagemaker would be good for me to learn and it would save me money and I would have control over it. Main thing is, I want my book typesetted with the illustrations so that I can send it to my printer and print up copies and have it on my website, which I have yet to set up. That's the main problem that I'm currently trying to overcome.
macdonald is undoubtedly right again. this is a short-range project and you won't be wasting money over the net if you stay at home. plus you'll get more what you want. notice my reply concerning a printer, much the same applies here.
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