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CreateSpace Formatting Sampler (6x9): A Hold-In-Your-Hand Gallery of Formatting Examples
This book helps you make formatting decisions when designing your CreateSpace book.
You need to decide:
Which font should I use?
What font size is best?
Should I use block paragraphs or indented?
How much space should I have between paragraphs, if any?
What margins will look best?
The problem is that you can't see the results of your decisions until you've finished your book and sent off for, and received, a proof. Until you get a physical book in your hand, you can't get a good feeling for how these decisions will affect the appearance of your creation.
Sure, you can get representations on your computer screen, but there's no way to know, for example, whether the text will be lost in the inner margins, or whether it will be big enough to read comfortably.
The CreateSpace Formatting Sampler (6x9) will solve that problem. It is a sampler or gallery of many different formatting styles that you might use with your 6x9 trim size book. Here's how it works.
Each of the 24 chapters is four pages long. The first page describes the exact parameters that are used for that chapter such as, font, font size, margins, etc. The next three pages continue to use that chapter's style. Within each chapter you will see exactly how your book would look were you to use that chapter's combination of font, font size, justification style, etc.
As you look at those pages, you'll say things like "Hmm, that looks nice." or "Oh no, I don't like this, the text is too large!"
To summarize, for a few bucks, purchase the CreateSpace Formatting Sampler now and consult it when making important decisions about your book. This will be cheaper and faster than going through several proofs for your book. This book will pay for itself.
Note that this book is for 6x9 trim sizes only, and is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or otherwise affiliated with CreateSpace.
You need to decide:
Which font should I use?
What font size is best?
Should I use block paragraphs or indented?
How much space should I have between paragraphs, if any?
What margins will look best?
The problem is that you can't see the results of your decisions until you've finished your book and sent off for, and received, a proof. Until you get a physical book in your hand, you can't get a good feeling for how these decisions will affect the appearance of your creation.
Sure, you can get representations on your computer screen, but there's no way to know, for example, whether the text will be lost in the inner margins, or whether it will be big enough to read comfortably.
The CreateSpace Formatting Sampler (6x9) will solve that problem. It is a sampler or gallery of many different formatting styles that you might use with your 6x9 trim size book. Here's how it works.
Each of the 24 chapters is four pages long. The first page describes the exact parameters that are used for that chapter such as, font, font size, margins, etc. The next three pages continue to use that chapter's style. Within each chapter you will see exactly how your book would look were you to use that chapter's combination of font, font size, justification style, etc.
As you look at those pages, you'll say things like "Hmm, that looks nice." or "Oh no, I don't like this, the text is too large!"
To summarize, for a few bucks, purchase the CreateSpace Formatting Sampler now and consult it when making important decisions about your book. This will be cheaper and faster than going through several proofs for your book. This book will pay for itself.
Note that this book is for 6x9 trim sizes only, and is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or otherwise affiliated with CreateSpace.
114 pages, Paperback
First published April 25, 2014
About the author
Al Macy
26 books152 followersAl Macy writes because he has stories to tell. In school he was the class clown and always the first volunteer for show and tell. His teachers would say “Al has a lot of imagination.” Then they'd roll their eyes.
But he put his storytelling on the back burner until he retired and wrote a blog about his efforts to improve his piano sight-reading. That's when his love of storytelling burbled up to the surface, along with quirky words like “burble.”
He had even more fun writing his second book, Drive, Ride, Repeat, but was bummed by non-fiction's need to stick to “the truth” (yucko). From then on it was fiction all the way, with a good dose of his science background burbling to the surface.
Macy's top priority is compelling storylines with satisfying plot twists, but he never neglects character development. No, wait … his top priority is quirkiness, then compelling storylines, then character development. No, wait …
But he put his storytelling on the back burner until he retired and wrote a blog about his efforts to improve his piano sight-reading. That's when his love of storytelling burbled up to the surface, along with quirky words like “burble.”
He had even more fun writing his second book, Drive, Ride, Repeat, but was bummed by non-fiction's need to stick to “the truth” (yucko). From then on it was fiction all the way, with a good dose of his science background burbling to the surface.
Macy's top priority is compelling storylines with satisfying plot twists, but he never neglects character development. No, wait … his top priority is quirkiness, then compelling storylines, then character development. No, wait …
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June 28, 2014
Disclosure: I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway.
So often as we're formatting our new book, we check out the cover appearance, the author bio/blurb, etc., but fail to take into account how the choice of font and text size can affect the way readers see our work. Part of the problem is the sheer number of fonts available; multiply that by the various sizes available, and you start to see the magnitude of the situation.
Al Macy's new book, CreateSpace Formatting Sampler, offers a much-needed solution to this situation. Designed primarily as a reference work for those formatting their books through Amazon's paperback-printing POD company, writers can now easily compare how a given piece of writing will look in various permutations of font and size. More than that, Macy's lighthearted style makes an initial read of his material enjoyable while promising to remain a reference work that needs to be kept nearby as we continue to write and self-publish.
This is an excellent reference work, and should be on the desks of everyone using CreateSpace to format their paperback books.
So often as we're formatting our new book, we check out the cover appearance, the author bio/blurb, etc., but fail to take into account how the choice of font and text size can affect the way readers see our work. Part of the problem is the sheer number of fonts available; multiply that by the various sizes available, and you start to see the magnitude of the situation.
Al Macy's new book, CreateSpace Formatting Sampler, offers a much-needed solution to this situation. Designed primarily as a reference work for those formatting their books through Amazon's paperback-printing POD company, writers can now easily compare how a given piece of writing will look in various permutations of font and size. More than that, Macy's lighthearted style makes an initial read of his material enjoyable while promising to remain a reference work that needs to be kept nearby as we continue to write and self-publish.
This is an excellent reference work, and should be on the desks of everyone using CreateSpace to format their paperback books.
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