Is There a Standard Format for Headers and Footers?
After looking through several books on my shelves, I came to the conclusion that there are no set rules regarding header formats for fiction and nonfiction books. Some authors choose not to bother with headers. For the purpose of this exercise, I’ll assume that you want to place headers in your book’s format. The screenshot [...]
Fonts: Free is Not Necessarily Good
First, free fonts are often poorly made. If you decide to use free fonts for your text, Lulu’s printers may not be able to print your book because of the technical errors contained in these fonts.
Second, most of the fonts that come from shareware sites are pirated copies of commercial fonts. The names are often [...]
The Best Fonts for Your Book
Open Type fonts are the best because they are cross-compatible with PCs and Macs. The internal coding (called unicode) allows a typeface file to have over 65,000 characters, a big improvement over the older typefaces that are limited to 256.
The second best are PostScript or Type 1 fonts. These are good for offset printing, especially [...]
Formatting Your Book Interior with Word
Do you set up your document’s style and margin formatting before you type a word? Or, do you use your word processor’s default settings like many of us are guilty of doing? Either way, you’ll have to reformat your manuscript to fit Lulu’s printing specifications.
If you’re publishing a paperback novel, you can copy your standard-sized [...]
