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Typesetting and Book Design Services

The Writer's Assistant offers three levels of typesetting and book design:

 

Interior Layout

Our designer will work with the client to select fonts and create a basic book design that will compliment the book's subject matter. Prior to beginning the interior layout process, your electronic file will be cleaned to remove all extra spaces, tabs, and breaks. Then it will be placed into the layout document and the designer will check each page for readability, removing any gaps, bad breaks, or other typographic errors that can ruin your book’s appearance. The file will be sent to you as a PDF (Portable Document Format). We will send you a final PDF for approval, and will create a high-resolution file for your printer. If you wish, we’ll even e-mail or upload the file directly to your printer.

The fees are as follows:

  • Interior layout fee is $2.50 per typeset page.
  • Our fee does not include blank pages.
  • Our price includes one round of corrections (up to two dozen corrections). More than two dozen changes will incur a $65 fee.
  • The fee for charts, tables, illustration/artwork and photograph insertions is $1.00 per image.
  • Turnaround: Typically 72 hours to one week for the first draft.
Interior Layout/Typesetting
$2.50 per typeset page
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Interior Changes

Per Illustrations/Charts/Photographs/Tables Inserts
(Indicate the Quantity before check out.)
Re-typeset

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Industry Standard Book Formatting

Could you manuscript benefit from professional formatting? No one can say with certainty how many great stories and novels are passed over by publishers simply because the manuscript was poorly formatted. Oftentimes, a nicely organized and clean manuscript will be better received.

As a special service of The Writer's Assistant, we will take your finished electronic manuscript and convert it to a “standard manuscript” format for submission to publishers and agents. We will ensure that your font, character style, line spacing, paragraph style, pages numbers, margins, and layout all meet an editor’s expectations. This does not guarantee that your book or short story will be sold, of course, but a well-formatted manuscript is easier to read and has a better chance of rising above the slush pile than one that looks unprofessional.

Manuscript formatting fees are as follows:

  • $100.00 up to 125 pages
  • $125.00 between 126 and 225 pages
  • $150.00 between 226 and 325 pages
  • $200.00 over 325 pages
Manuscript Formatting

For additional information, please contact us.

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Typing Services

We are experienced in typing novels, scripts/screenplays, academic theses, articles for publication, journals, diaries, letters, resumes, and novels. We accept handwritten or typewritten manuscripts, disks, e-mail attachments, PDF, Web upload and faxes. We do data entry as well. For data entry, we work primarily in Microsoft Word and Excel but we can accept and deliver many other formats, including publishing to PDF.

The fee for typing is $2.50 per page.

Typing Services
(Indicate number of pages at check out.)

For additional information, please contact us.



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