Assembling your Book

Once your manuscript has been edited and made ready for production, all the pieces of your book are brought together by your publishing consultant or book shepherd. 

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Sending Files to the Printer

With the guidance of your consultant, the files of your book are professionally edited, organized and formatted with your intended readership in mind.

Your consultant helps select the right printer for your book and liaises with that printer first for technical file specs and then through the print-phase itself.

Nowadays most printers request PDF files that go straight into the digital print output system, usually with graphics and photos embedded.

Assembling a Non-Fiction Book:

  Cover (front and back).
  Inside cover (front and back).
  Book jacket (where applicable).
  Publishing information page.
  Inside title page. 
  Commentaries page.
  Author's Introduction. 
  Editor/Publisher's Introduction
  Acknowledgements
  Table of Contents.
  Inside body text (story).
  Graphic elements (e.g. illustrations, graphs, tables, pull quotes).
  Glossary.
  Index.
  About the Author.