Here's a collection of resources I hope you'll find
helpful — guides I've created, reference
information, bookbinding tools, and websites of
other independent publishers.
My instructions for making a hardcover book
from common materials.
Quick'n'Dirty instructions for US
Letter-sized printout.
My original guide (on No Media Kings'
website) to do-it-yourself publishing.
Makers of the amazing Scrivener: software
for writing novels and screenplays (which I
also use in my copywriting work).
The people to buy your ISBNs from in the
UK.
The British Library's legal deposit scheme:
Authors publishing in the UK must submit
copies to this programme. You'll find my
books in there!
Many creative types are concerned about
copyright. Actually, you have copyright
over any work you create from the moment
you create it. It's implicit, so you're
protected without having to go overboard in
stating it in your work. Copyright,
however, is designed to limit sharing;
Creative Commons licenses, on the other
hand, are a good way to promote the "fair
use" of your work — specifically stating
how others are allowed to distribute,
share, and use it.
Barcode creation website.
An amazing wooden 'machine' for making
perfect-bound books.
Jim Munro - indie novelist, filmmaker,
games author. His website features lots of
DIY advice for independent creative types.
Chad Muller is another independent novelist
and micropress publisher. His site features
nice tutorials on his book production
process, as well as samples of his
excellent fiction.
A DIY publishing house – and milliner!
Flickr images available for use under a
Creative Commons licence
An online community for writers and
artists.
Sells a great range of bookbinding supplies
in the UK. Dangerous!
Another source of bookbinding materials in
the UK.
My favourite shop in Toronto — always gets
a bite out of my wallet whenever I'm in TO.
A nice, clear tutorial on hardcover
binding.
Collections of reproduction vintage papers
- nice for decorating books.
MAKE magazine's papercraft projects.
Powerful but complicated PDF software for
the Mac that can 'impose' your pages, or
rearrange them for printing into books.
Simple and free Mac imposition software.
Splits the difference between the previous
two applications, being much simpler than
PDF Clerk yet more configuable than
CocoaBooklet.
Page imposition software for Windows (a Mac
client is available, but I didn't have much
luck with it).
Here's where I get the "pulp novel" style
paper I use for my books. And it's
eco-friendly, 100% recycled from paper that
was otherwise destined for landfill.
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