Book Page Formatting – Open Heart Designs

A Look at Imprints

admin — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:46:11 +0000

As a self publishing author, your books are published under your publishing company name. This is also called your publishing imprint and is what is recorded in book industry databases used by retailers, book wholesalers, and book distributors, it's on your copyright page and is assigned to your ISBN numbers. You can also have multiple imprints that fall under your publishing company. For example…

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The Chapter Opening Page in Book Design

admin — Fri, 22 May 2020 00:05:43 +0000

The first page of each chapter is one of my favorite things to design. This is one place where the tone of your book and its subject matter can be visually communicated. The design of these pages can range from very simple to more elaborate design choices that spread across two pages. The Chicago Manual of Style says that each chapter normally starts on a new page, and can sit on a verso (left) or…

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Paragraph Separators in Book Page Design

admin — Tue, 05 May 2020 16:41:19 +0000

When you need to indicate a pause, a passage of time, or a scene change within a chapter of your book use a paragraph separator. This is a visual cue to your reader that something has changed. A paragraph separator can be as simple as an extra line space between two paragraphs, a series of three or four asterisks (*) separated by an em or en space, or they can be a little more graphic with the use…

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