Exceptional book interior design
A stunning book cover design will get your book noticed, but once a potential customer opens it and skims the pages—that’s when the sale is ultimately won or lost. If your book interior design doesn’t fulfill the expectations implied by the cover, you’re missing out on selling opportunities.
Competitive prices and no “setup fees”
We offer very competitive rates on book interior design and charge by the finished page; From $5 for straight text, up to $20 per page for more complex works. We don’t charge “setup fee’s” for our book interior layout and typesetting, and the quality of our work will stand beside mainstream publishing standards, as do all our offerings.
To provide you with a quote, we’ll need your completed manuscript, preferably emailed as an MS Word attachment. While the price per finished page will be fixed, we of course won’t know the exact finished page count until it’s finished so I’ll need to estimate the final cost of the book interior design.
Professional book indexing
A book’s index should help the reader find useful information quickly and easily. It’s not simply a list of the words and phrases, but an organized grouping of like concepts. Our book indexing services provide thoughtfully structured indices that accurately reflect the content, formatting and style of your book.
Indexing fees
Our indexing fees are based on a per page basis, ranging from $2.00 to $6.00 per indexable page, and we’ll require the completed manuscript to offer a quote unique to your project requirements.
Because an indexable page is really any of your book’s pages that contains useful and relevant information to your readers, including pictures, figures or graphs, please convey any specific preferences with your request for quote. At Book Creatives, we believe in doing the job right the first time.
How to prepare your manuscript for typesetting
I use software applications specifically designed for creating books (among other things) for print. MS Word and other word processors while typically wonderful for writing manuscripts, lack the controls and features for successful print design.
Please send your completed manuscript as a single document–not individual chapter files, and do try to have your spell checking and editing finished before sending off your manuscript for typesetting. There’s still always the inevitable stray typo to correct at proof time, but don’t fret…that’s normal.
There’s no need to format your manuscript, the only real do’s and don’ts I’ll mention involve interior images and tables:
Interior photo’s and artwork: Please don’t embed images – use art references/directives instead. For example, instead of embedding “picture01.jpg” into the manuscript, place a simple notation such as [INSERT picture01.jpg here]. Then place any captions immediately below where you’ve referenced an image placement, beginning the line with [CAPTION] is sure to get my attention!
Example:
[INSERT picture01.jpg here]
[CAPTION The author having lunch with the President.]
Tables and charts: When preparing tables or charts, please keep the trim size in mind; that brilliant table that looked so good on an 8.50″ x 11″ sheet could be too small to read once it’s scaled down to a size that will fit on a book’s page. Also, book interiors are generally printed in grayscale so it’s helpful to set up your table or chart using shades of black to avoid unintended results, and whenever possible, allow rows to break across pages.
