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It may seem obvious that the content needs to be done before you can start creating the book.īut that’s not always the way our brains (or creative processes) work. If that first point made you roll your eyes, please stick with me here.

11 Steps To A Professional Book Layout #1 Finish The Book Some ‌details will change, but if you don’t get each of these steps done right, you risk your book appearing unprofessional (and likely causing potential readers to pass it over). With that in mind, these 11 points are relevant when designing any kind of book. Sometimes an uncommon design can work, but with anything, it’s best to start simple and only approach weird or genre-bending designs once you’ve mastered a basic book layout. Once you have a sense of the ‌book, creating a professional page design hinges on meeting reader expectations. But even similar books, like a fictional story and a memoir, will have some unique elements-everything from fonts to endnotes to the use of graphics. That might be obvious when comparing a textbook to a graphic novel or a photo book to a fiction book. When you approach the problem of how to lay out a book, you need to first clearly define what kind of book you’ll be designing. While there are specific details you’ll need to focus on (I’ll get to those next), it’s important to acknowledge that every book layout is unique. I’ve written a great deal about laying out your book, and we even have an entire section of our knowledge base dedicated to these questions. But we’ve got some great content about creating a cover. For this post, we will not focus on the cover.

Your cover is going to be an enormous piece of how you sell your book. Usually, this includes the About the Author, any sort of index or bibliography, and often a few blank pages. Just like the Front Matter, Back Matter is everything after the main content of your book. All of this is collectively called Front Matter. You’ll see a half-title and full title, a copyright page, a table of contents, acknowledgments, an introduction, and any other information you need to provide a reader before they dive into the main content. When you open a book, the first page is not the beginning of your story. Remember, the content includes text and images, as well as anything else, like tables or charts.

The story you tell, the manual or guide you wrote to share your expertise, the history you’re recounting, or whatever your book might be.

Let’s quickly review the parts of a book that you design for your book layout. The Ultimate Guide to InDesign for Authors Parts Of Your Book Layout