Category: Self publishing

Watch This Space

Look carefully at a book page. What do you see? Lots of words, of course. But what you don’t see is just as important. I’m talking about the white space on a page. What if there were no spaces between the words? You would have a hard time reading!. Spacing allows the eye to follow …

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Everyone has a book to write!

Copywriting, proofreading, interior page design

Even Snoopy sits on top of his doghouse pounding away at his typewriter writing about his early life at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. What about your life’s adventures? You are unique and the life you have lived is equally unique. Often I think my life is mundane, but how many people do you know …

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The Typewriter Song

Who remembers “carriage return” and the little bell? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2LJ1i7222c

I’m a printer’s daughter, and I know my type

Printing

My daddy was a printer all his life – at least from the time he came home from serving in the Marines on Iwo Jima during World War II. During his 50+ years in printing he saw lots of changes as the industry developed from letterpress to offset printing. But he didn’t live to see …

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