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Adobe Indesign for Fiction Book Layout - Complete Guide

Learn how to use Adobe Indesign to create a professional PDF from your book manuscript

     
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About Adobe Indesign for Fiction Book Layout - Complete Guide

Do you need to make a layout for a fiction book for professional publication? Perhaps you are an author and want to learn how the book layout process works so you can make your own PDF. This course is for you! Most other Indesign courses teach lots of extra material that won't help you. This course is specifically targeted at people who want to learn fiction and textbook layout without all the fluff.

Walter: "

_Your course was so helpful. My staff struggled for a month trying to learn Indesign from YouTube. We just wasted our time and missed critical opportunities. Your easy-to-follow teaching style literally hand-held us, taught my team time-saving skills, and saved us $1,000's of dollars in lost revenue. Thank you!" Walter P., Orange and Blue Marketing_

_From Aaron:_

_"Hi there, my name is Aaron and I've professionally taught Indesign to hundreds of students. I've created hundreds of layouts in Indesign, from simple fiction books to complex guides and textbooks. Together we'll work through real projects will real manuscripts. You'll learn everything you need to know to be successful. This course is filled with instruction that gets you to success fast."_ This course will save you from wasting $100's if not $1,000's of your hard-earned money. Many "pro" book layout designers learn from YouTube as they go, wasting your money. Other Indesign contractors charge insane amounts of money. That's why I made this course. It's for people who want to learn fiction book layout or need to do the job themselves.

Bethany:

_"What you just taught me almost made me cry. Before your class, my boss made me change the font in our company book twice. It took me a week. With what you showed me, I could've been literally done in a minute. One week cut down to one minute. I hope others find your course." Bethany R., Outdoor Medical Training School_

This course helps you avoid these mistakes:

Creating text that's incorrectly spaced out and looks weird

Justified text that still looks jagged - pro tips

Overload of hyphen breaks

Orphans and widows - random text starting a page

Wrong hyphens - you probably used the wrong hyphens It's so easy to make mistakes and not see them during book layout. Aaron has seen books with beautiful covers but the inside looked like a hack job. Trying to do book layout in Microsoft Word will make your book

_look terrible_

_._ Word just doesn't have the right tools.

This course includes:

Sample complete manuscripts for practice

Sample copyright page text completely free to use

Sample word processing program files for challenge assignments Aaron shares the tricks he's learned over years of doing fiction book layout design. The goal of this course is to teach you how to make your own book PDF and not look like an amateur doing it. You'll learn the necessary skills to make turn your manuscript into a pro PDF.

Manuscript software formatting guidelines include:

Microsoft Word

Google Docs

OpenOffice

Scrivener

Apple Pages Even if you used a _different program_ , the instructions for the above software will help you figure out what you need to do. Ask questions in the course forum and Aaron will do his best to help you out. There are a lot of small but important details in fiction book layout. Avoid making errors with this course. You spent 100's of hours perfecting your manuscript. Don't make the rookie mistake of making your book look like it was prepared by a fifth-grader.

Who this course is for:

Anyone wanting to create a professional PDF from their fiction manuscript

Aaron's course is for people with no InDesign experience. No previous publishing knowledge required.

This course is relaxed and bite-sized. It's broken down into small skills that won't overwhelm you. You only need basic computer skills to succeed.

Aaron Linsdau Learning:_Skills. Fast._

What You Will Learn?

  • You will understand fiction book design in Adobe Indesign .
  • You will learn how to select fonts. .
  • Pro techniques other courses fail to teach. .
  • How to choose and set book margins. .
  • How to order sections of your book. .
  • Professional workflows and shortcuts. .
  • How to avoid amateur mistakes. .
  • Downloadable exercise files & check list. .
  • Learn how to create PDF files ready for printing. .
  • PDF formatting for digital printing. .
  • How to work efficiently with shortcuts. .
  • What you need for the task and not other stuff that doesn't matter. Show moreShow less.