Having a professional layout for your book is essential to obtain a good reception among readers. In the self-publishing of books, it is easy to find poorly laid-out texts that offer a terrible image of the independent writer and his work. We give you the keys to knowing what a professional layout is and how to get it.
Why Does Your Book Need Professional Layout?
Laying out a book is like assembling the bodywork of a car. The engine is the content of your work, essential for it to start up and work perfectly; but we also have a series of elements that make your work visible: a beautiful and striking cover and a back cover with its attractive synopsis, which will draw the attention of readers to buy your book. But the shape and presentation of the interior are also important, and a lot; It is like having comfortable seats, a practical and complete control panel, and all the accessories so that the readers’ trip is comfortable and fluid from start to finish, relaxed and attentive to the story you are telling them. Can you imagine a car with a powerful and neat engine, but whose interior is uncomfortable and makes you tired as soon as you get in and sit in the vehicle?
Well, that happens with the layout of books; that is, the texts, graphics, images, tables, footnotes, notes… Everything that we find in the interior pages of the book. Not only are they good aesthetically, but they help make reading enjoyable without creating problems or difficulties for the reader. For example, a suitable font is necessary, proportionate to the size of the pages. Also, the distance between lines. A font that is too small strains the eye, and a distance between lines that is too large or too small is also very confusing. And to that, we add the margins and other details that give the whole the elegance, usefulness, and functionality that a book requires, which will keep us attentive for hours to what it tells us.
This is not an easy job and it is not enough to put the text and images more or less centered on each page. The professional layout requires high knowledge of design, typography, editing, and composition. Unfortunately, it is very common to find poorly laid out books, made by amateurs, that offer a very poor image of the work and the author and ruin all their previous creative work.
We find orphan and widow lines, incorrect odd or even pages, wrong hierarchies’ layout, misplaced images or very low quality, unsymmetrical margins, unreadable fonts… In short: invalid files for printing… That is to say, everything that it destroys aesthetics, harmony, and good taste, and that the reader will notice at first sight.
There are those who make their models with Word thinking that this is the right tool to do it, but it is not. Word is a word processor, thought, and designed fundamentally for writing. A professional mockup should always be composed using an advanced graphic design program. And these programs must know how to use them very well. It doesn’t matter if your book is a novel and only contains the text. Even the apparently simplest layouts are governed by technical and aesthetic criteria that must be mastered.
What Will You Get If VoxGhostwriting Layouts Your Book?
- Forget homemade models.
- It offers an optimal finish to present the interior of your book.
- Give your book an elegant graphic composition.
- Gives a professional image.
- It facilitates and gives comfort and fluency to reading.
- It helps to understand the content.
- Avoid technical problems with printing.
If we want optimal results for our book, if we don’t want our readers to go crazy every time they open it, don’t allow yourself the luxury of laying it out in any way. Put the layout of your book in the hands of a VoxGhostWriting. Trust us, inner beauty matters too.
