Any Authors?

by **Mansal D** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:21 pm

Anyone here an author of any WWII books? I need some help on a specific battle, but it's not the info I need, it's help with formatting.

Please help! :[]

by **sniper1shot** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:29 pm

Moved to the books section as that is where authours would usually hang out.

by **Richard Hargreaves** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:32 am

Formatting? Well, for a start MS Word is a swine, but it's also the industry standard. :-(

Most publishing firms use Quark Express or Adobe Indesign (the latter's a lot cheaper and I find it easier to use). InDesign costs about £600 in the UK (you get Photoshop thrown in for that too).

by **Tom Houlihan** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:38 am

Generally speaking, for the US market anyway, basic Times New Roman 12-pt, 1" margins all around, double spaced on 8 1/2 X 11" (A4 for you Euro blokes!) paper. All you have to do is type it.

When it's time to put it to press, the publisher repaginates and reformats everything, adding in front and back matter, graphics, etcetera.

by **Richard Hargreaves** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:55 am

Yankee A4 is bigger than Euro A4. Last time I photocopied a load of stuff in NYPL it wouldn't fit into the folders I had. Guess size matters.

Anyway, forgot to mention. If you are sending a manuscript for proofing, double space it. 12pt Arial or Times. It uses up a sh**load of paper

but it's much easier to proofread (trust me, I proofread in my day job, it's a hideous job; we use Plantin Regular 8pt on 8pt :shock:

. God my eyes hurt) and make notes/corrections.

by **Richard Hargreaves** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:59 am

As for images, 300dpi is preferred, usually jpg or tif, sometimes psd. Publishers generally prefer colour images in CMYK (not RGB) format, although with wartime stuff this is mostly irrelevant as they're greyscale.

If you want to tweak your pix, turn them to greyscale, then duotone them. Duotone allows two colours; one is black. If you make the second colour a brown-yellow, it turns your images sepia in an instant. A useful trick of the trade I've been known to use.

by **Uncle Joe** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:00 am

Halder, Yankee "A4" is not bigger as it has some 5% less area but it is wider, though:)

by **Richard Hargreaves** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:16 am

So it's wider but shorter. Bit like me

by **Mansal D** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:33 am

Formatting of information I mean, not the word document! :wink:

Anyone an author then?

by **sniper1shot** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:41 am

You have an authour and an editor that answered you.
Give it time, as the authours frequent this Forum.

by **Richard Hargreaves** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:01 am

We do and we also answer queries. I'm not sure what "formatting of information" means however. If you can elucidate, we can provide answers. Possibly.

by **Mansal D** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:39 pm

Well I need some help that I am not going to post on the forums. I'm looking for authors here so that I may get an email address or something to talk privately with about this help. Anyone want to help on a larger scale?

by **Taylor Collector** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:36 pm

You still haven't explained the 'formatting of information.'

TS Allen

by **Mansal D** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:39 pm

Well I am not going to post it here. I'm just looking for authors so that I may confer with them via email about it. I already have one who is willing to help.

halder, thank you.

by **sniper1shot** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:42 pm

Halder-

elucidate

Nice....real nice buddy! HAHA showing us your ejimikashon are you now?

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