by Michele DeFilippo | Feb 4, 2016 | Book Cover Design, Book Interior Design, Book Marketing, Book Pricing, Book Printing, Editing & Proofreading, How to Self-publish a Book, Publishing Business, Publishing Options, Self-publishing for professionals
Type “cheapest way to self-publish a book” into your search engine of choice, and you will retrieve any number of articles giving you advice on how to do just that. One recently published article also told readers the “best way” in addition to the cheapest. I thought...
by Michele DeFilippo | Jan 29, 2016 | Book Interior Design, Welcome to 1106 Design
As some of you know I love, love, love to read history. This past weekend, while reading George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution, by Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) and Don Yaeger (@DonYaeger), I was amused to learn that...
by Michele DeFilippo | Jan 22, 2016 | Book Interior Design, Finding & Evaluating a Designer, How to Self-publish a Book
Book designers attend to an astonishing number of typesetting details when laying out a book. Below are the most basic typesetting and book layout issues, so that you’ll understand how to typeset a book and know what to look for. Once you understand these issues, you...
by Michele DeFilippo | Oct 26, 2015 | 1106 Design delivers, 1106 Design offers, Book Cover Design, Book Cover Evaluation, Book Distribution, Book Interior Design, Book Marketing, Book Printing, Editing & Proofreading, Finding & Evaluating a Designer, How to Self-publish a Book, Printing & Distribution, Publishing Business, Publishing Options, Self-publishing for professionals
1106 Design is pleased to announce that it is now a recommended resource for IngramSpark, the company that provides “Big House Publishing for Indie Publishers,” and has been “digitally certified” by IngramSpark as being a book design company that formats books to...
by Michele DeFilippo | Sep 18, 2015 | Book Distribution, Book Interior Design, Book Printing, How to Self-publish a Book, Publishing Business, Self-publishing for professionals
So I want you to visualize your book. Close your eyes and imagine holding your finished book in your hands. Look at the cover. The images, colors, fonts—what stands out for you? What do you like? How will it measure up to best sellers? I hope you’re feeling really...
by Michele DeFilippo | Aug 2, 2015 | 1106 Design offers, Book Cover Design, Book Interior Design, Book Marketing Plan, Book Printing, Business Development, Editing & Proofreading, Editorial Evaluation, How to Self-publish a Book, Self-publishing for professionals
Marketing professionals are under the impression that we need to be told things are “easy.” Easy steps. Easy financing. Get where you want to go without effort. Increasingly, we also want things to be “free,” but that’s another blog post. The same extends to...
