Greenslade Creations offers the full range of book design services including:
- Project coordination (publishing and printing)
- Book layout—formatting of the interior
- Book cover design (also jacket flap design)
- eBook design
- Book manuscript appraisals and editing
For more details of our book publishing experience, with printed books and ebooks, please visit www.australianebookpublisher.com.au
If you are not sure whether to DIY or get help from a team of book publishing professionals, this article on self-publishing solutions is a must-read for you!
Book Layout
Book layout or typesetting is an art that involves good workflow, a consistent design and experience working with paragraphs and page flow. The best typesetting is not noticeable when you read a book. Book layout designers are aware of and take meticulous care with the following:
- Page layout, including headings and numbering
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- Alignment and justification
- Hyphenation, including no break between some words that should never be auto-hyphenated
- Text wrapping
- Image quality
- Caption layout
- Contents and indices
- Using paragraph and character styles for consistency, efficiency and for converting to HTML, XML, ePub etc.
Greenslade Creations has experience with countless variations of page layout and we are skilled in all of the above areas. From cookbooks to children's books, from magazines to text books, from novels to non-fiction books, Greenslade Creations can look after your book production project from start to finish. We always use a proper workflow that includes, for example, setting up our projects with paragraph styles in Adobe InDesign, so it is as efficient as possible to make stylistic changes later.
Designing Book Covers
Your book cover needs to be impacting. It is possibly the most important decision you will make in the marketing plan for your book, as people do judge a book by its cover. If your budget allows, we will design a book cover for you that includes:
- Unique, genre-specific, relevant imagery
- Exciting, classy, readable text
- Printed books usually work best with a full wrap design, from back to spine to front
- Ebook covers require larger text and elements to be visible as thumbnails
If you have your own imagery and ideas for your cover already, we can work within your requirements.