Making a custom book cover for your latest story is a breeze with Placeit's book cover design templates. Choose from a range of genres and customize ina flash! TheStyle is a modern WordPress theme for authors to showcase their books in a unique style. It has an eye-catching modern and crisp design to get the attention of your audience. The visual experience improves your website traffic and helps in the SEO. It comes with 5 custom colors, page templates, and theme options panel to for easy customization.
At DiggyPOD, we offer free book templates for the author wanting to publish a book. Before sending your book to print, you will need to layout the book. You will need a template for the inside pages of the book, and a template for the outside cover of your book. Below you will find our free Microsoft Word book templates for the inside pages. We offer book templates for use with the following design programs: Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Word; All text files must be submitted in our book layout templates. All files and images should be high resolution (300 PPI) and converted to CMYK color. Save B&W images in Grayscale color mode. To help you format your manuscript, we created templates in Microsoft Word into which you can insert your content. For the best results, follow the five steps in this guide. Depending on your book, some steps may be unnecessary (for example, your book doesn't have images).
Every blogger writes, but not every writer blogs. Different users have different goals and want to highlight their work in a way that suits them. Writer delivers with 4 different frontpage layouts that highlight your articles in different ways, from a big image that's perfect for introducing yourself and your work to a grid portfolio-style layout that puts your content first.
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Authors have enough costs and publishing challenges to deal with already, so I've built an amazing package of book formatting templates in MS Word and InDesign you can download for free. There are 5 templates, and each template has 5 different chapter page styles, so you can mix and match to find something perfect for your book. These templates were made using free fonts.
This is what they look like..
You should watch this quick video on how to start customizing them. There are no 'push-button' automatic solutions to book formatting, so you will need to learn the basics of book formatting to make them work for you. I've tried to make it easier with my video tutorials, which you'll find down below.
Please watch this introductory video on how to use the templates - this is just a quick guide to downloading and getting started. You'll still need to learn how to format books, because there is no 'push-button' automatic solution to book formatting, but with these templates and the video guides below, I hope it will be much faster and easier for you.
This free package of formatting templates is unsupported, and a little dated. I hope the free resources are useful, but if you're looking for more flexibility and a larger selection of formatting styles, you can upgrade to the Epic Book Design Package. Not only does it include
Thanks for signing up! I started this site to help authors design better covers on a budget, and have made tons of video tutorials and templates you can use to design professional covers for all genres and topics.
Make sure you grab your free book (above) - then watch the free video series on designing covers that sell. There are also some tools and templates down below, but unless you understand the true purpose of a book cover and the common mistakes authors make, you're going to end up with a cover that won't sell your book.
Watch this one first, then watch all the others here.
A lot of the templates on this site are for Microsoft Word (I know it sounds crazy, but you can make pretty good covers very quickly in Word with some of the built-in features.) There are a few videos on how to do that here and some templates down below so you can try it out. Once you open the Word files, things may not look right if you don't have the same fonts installed that I used, so try changing the fonts.
I wasn't happy with the Word templates so I custom built my own online cover design tool. You can try out the online tool here, and there's a package of templates for the tool down below too (I'm not a developer so the tool is a bit buggy - it's getting a huge facelift in 2018 and I'll let you know when the new tool is ready).
Since you're interested in publishing a book, I'm also going to send some tips on book design, publishing and marketing that will help your book get the visibility it deserves: these are the same strategies that let me grow an email list of 8500 readers before I published my first novel, and hit #1 bestseller for each new book, without a big marketing campaign or advertising budget.
Now that I've finally finished my PhD in Literature, I plan to build more templates with more free programs, to make it even easier for you to design your own book covers. I don't have time to support everyone who downloads the free templates (thousands of authors join each month!) but if you want to join my Facebook Group and introduce yourself, you can get some quick feedback.
Here's a link to the sample package; you can use the Quickstart Guide or 'Cheat Sheet' to troubleshoot and learn the ropes. There are a few fiction and non-fiction cover template samples to play with. The instructions are based on Word 2010.
Choosing the right fonts for your book cover is important; you'll probably use the same fonts for your interior formatting as well. Here's a huge list of fonts I like divided by genre.
I made a few 'sell-sheets' that may help with book marketing; for a long post about how to use them, and other alternatives, you can read this article I posted on my blog: How-to-make-a-sell-sheet-for-your-book-with-free-templates
Making full print covers for Createspace is a little tricky, but this guide and sample templates will help. You can make a full print cover that looks pretty good, but you need to get familiar with the features in MS Word, and use quality fonts and images.
This package is light on layers, heavy on templates - it's got everything you need but assumes you're starting from a finished cover file, so you're just importing layers. There are also instructions for ordering postcards and business cards (and how to use them).
ONLINE COVER DESIGN TOOL TEMPLATES
You can try out the online tool here. It's a work in progress, but after several years I'm nearly done with something that's going to be really amazing - I'll let you know when it's ready (the basic tool will be free for everyone!)
Here's a package of some covers and other things; go to 'file' and 'open' to load these into the cover tool. I also added a bunch of videos on using the cover tool, here.
Book cover design and book formatting are just some of the things I do. I also manage about a dozen publishing related businesses and publish books of my own. In fact, having spent over 10 years working intimately with all facets of the publishing process, I’ve become an expert on print on demand and ebooks, building an author platform, hacking Kindle and Amazon, social media manipulation and book marketing.
I write articles about that stuff on my main blog, www.creativindie.com, where I also give away a ton of free content. But in case you never visit me over there, here are some free books for you!
I've written several guides on publishing, book design and building your author platform; along with a book of answers to common publishing questions. You can download them all for free - but I've set a 'share to unlock' feature to help these free guides reach more authors. Please help me out by spreading the word.
My first book on book marketing is free on Amazon.. It's been a bestseller for the past 2 years though, so you might want to check it out. Pine game. It's a good basic primer on why most of the stuff authors think about as 'marketing' doesn't work anymore (and what to do instead).
Or grab the PDF (older edition)
I wrote those a few years ago but there's still some excellent tips inside.
PDF VERSION | KINDLE
I asked my audience what questions they had and responded to each one of them - more recently I put them together in a massive blog post and included some videos as well.
Kindle | Epub
PS - Most of these books are available on Amazon, but I'm giving them away for free to help as many authors as possible. If you find them useful, I'd love a short review!
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I hope the free resources and videos are useful. If you're looking for more styles and options, grab the premium package of formatting templates and some advanced video tutorials in the Epic Book Design package. Direct message for instagram 4 1 5. You'll also get my $297 course on book marketing for free, along some publishing bonuses that will help your book stand out.
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