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Printing Walking the Lethe: Obtaining an ISBN & Barcode

Next up, getting an ISBN and barcode for your website. An ISBN is a unique identifier primarily used for books. It’s an international standard, but you do need to obtain it via the country you are publishing and and residing in. Here’s our process in the Netherlands. Plus a short discussion of obtaining a barcode, [...]

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Printing Walking the Lethe Volume 1: A Look at the Cover

Our cover illustration for Walking the Lethe Volume 1 is complete and the files off to the printer for the creation of the proof copy prior to our final print run. This is exciting, so today I share with you the cover illustration and the elements we added to make it into a proper cover. [...]

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Printing Walking the Lethe: Setting Up InDesign

Video two of Printing Walking the Lethe is all about how I set up our manuscript in InDesign. I talk about opening a new document, how to use Master pages, placing text and images, and saving the file as a PDF. The result will, we hope, be a handsome looking book. InDesign was a little [...]

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Printing Walking the Lethe: Picking Pages

We are currently going through the exciting process of compiling our first volume of Walking the Lethe, consisting of the first 4 chapters of our story. It’s a lot of fun and a lot of work, so I thought I’d share some of those steps with you. Today, a brief discussion of the types of [...]

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