The inside of your book is just as important as the cover.
I believe in making your interior copy easy to read so the viewer wants to keep reading it! A well designed and organized book interior is just as important as a professionally designed book cover. People are more attracted to visually appealing designs that look like care was taken in their production. Therefore, adding to the success of your overall self-publishing book sales and acceptance in main stream publishing.
Having the same book designer complete both your cover and interior design can best maintain quality and consistency of your book files. I would like to be that person for you. I love typography. Type form is true design and making a book easy and enjoyable to read fills me with just as much joy as designing a dynamic cover... a feeling of great accomplishment.
Please contact me to prepare a quote for your interior page layout typesetting for fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, manuals, workbooks, technical reference books, etc. Call for more information 310-397-3408 Calif. time, M-F, 9-5pm
Interior Design Pricing: typesetting and formatting
Book Interior Design includes: project discussion and guidance, two proofs. I charge a flat rate per page for basic straight text and up (see list below), calculated based on final page count and job specifics. There is a $75 to $150 layout fee for most book interiors, price may increase depending on job specifics.
Pricing Examples for Job Specific types of interiors
1.) $5.00 per final page - Straight text
........(NO bulleted or numbered lists, quotes, etc. mostly for fiction books)
2.) $6.00 per final page - text has minimum sub heads, minimum bulleted lists, inline text pull quotes.
3.) Photos/images/graphics: there is an additional charge to convert and place within the interior running text: amount TBD
NOTE: Some items that might increase the price, all will depend on actual job specifications: tables, charts, index, apendix, extended back-matter,
workbooks, cookbooks, detailed layouts, massive amounts of photos, images, multiple bulleted lists, multiple quotes and styles of statements,
multiple layers of sub-heads, footnotes, charts, rushes...
— Books of less than 100 pages are a flat rate of $600.
— Children books are priced differently and based on what is involved, the images and your vision, please ask me to quote them for you.
Allow 1 1/2 - 3 weeks for interior formatting and if I am also designing your cover, both can be done in the same time frame. PLEASE NOTE this mostly depends on your projects details and how long it takes for proofing. I'll need to see your manuscript OR get an approximate word count and content info from you, to questimate your interior. The file can be emailed to me.
The best way to send your manuscript and images is to send them on CD, or by e-mail. I work best with manuscripts submitted as MS Word files. Email
"You did a great job for me Karrie ... I had a very difficult and intense interior book design that required not only technical expertise but "patience" as well. Karrie, persevered throughout its development which produced a final product that was SUPERB! Indeed, I am grateful." Most cordially, |
Samples of Interior Layout Design
You can view interior samples from the links below or links on the Testimonial page near the covers of the books. NOTE: these are all low resolution so images may be fuzzy.
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Collins interior sample Dunkin interior sample |
Why hire me as your professional book interior designer
As a professional book designer I'm experienced with design programs like QuarkXpress, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, which make all the difference to the final look of your book! Creating a book that looks wonderful from the inside out requires skill, time, and careful attention to detail to get it that way.
My interior page layout services include the process of going through your book many times checking to be sure all widows, hyphenation, font size and leading, headers, page numbers, chapter titles, special elements, charts, graphs and photo images are correct and that your book has a consistent "nature", the look feel when read... the idea is to keep the pages turning. I also check your book interior sequence as well as your copyright page content.
In addition to creating a design that incorporates all the necessary elements and your manuscript together in a pleasing layout, the final product and digital files will be ready for printing.
I'll make sure your files are problem-free when sent to the printer and I will be available for the first print run to make any changes necessary if the files I send need attention. I'll do my best to be sure your book is a pleasure to read.
Project/product/business marketing and promotion consulting is an additional charge. Consulting
