It’s important to ensure you do not neglect the areas that a traditional publisher would be working on alongside getting your book ready for publication: all the vital marketing and pre-publication hype that goes hand-in-hand with ensuring the success your book deserves.

Continue reading on about the important of typesetting and then head over to our marketing pages to see how Author’s Pen can help you to create a promotion plan to boost your books sales.

Typesetting your novel or non-fiction project:

Once your manuscript has been edited, one of the biggest and most important parts of self-publishing is getting the formatting and typesetting perfect. After this is completed, your files will be uploaded and a first draft copy will be ordered. When you are absolutely satisfied with the results, it is simply a case of pressing the ‘publish’ button.

Author’s Pen can guide you through:

• the cover design – which must convey elements of the story, the genre of the book and too what you want it to say about you as an author
• copyright
• styled chapter headings
• appropriate typeface – in many cases this will be industry specific; you want to avoid using a font which is difficult to read
• sizing and line-spacing are also often industry specific
• incorporating fonts into the page design to create an overall style, which matches your title pages
• acknowledgements

For non-fiction projects:

• copyright
• acknowledgements
• foreword
• contents pages
• running heads – the small headings you might spot at the top of the pages
• lists, tables, excerpts from newspapers, email transcriptions
• footnotes and illustrations
• illustration lists
• bibliography
• indexing