Adobe Indesign for Fiction Book Layout - Complete Guide

Learn how to use Adobe Indesign to create a professional PDF from your book manuscript

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Adobe Indesign for Fiction Book Layout - Complete Guide
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Feb 2023
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What you will learn

You will understand fiction book design in Adobe Indesign

You will learn how to select fonts.

Pro techniques other courses fail to teach.

How to choose and set book margins.

How to order sections of your book.

Professional workflows and shortcuts.

How to avoid amateur mistakes.

Downloadable exercise files & check list.

Learn how to create PDF files ready for printing.

PDF formatting for digital printing.

How to work efficiently with shortcuts.

What you need for the task and not other stuff that doesn't matter.

Why take this course?

Do you need to make a layout for a fiction book for professional publication? Perhaps you are an author and want to learn how the book layout process works so you can make your own PDF. This course is for you! Most other Indesign courses teach lots of extra material that won't help you. This course is specifically targeted at people who want to learn fiction and textbook layout without all the fluff.

  • Walter: "Your course was so helpful. My staff struggled for a month trying to learn Indesign from YouTube. We just wasted our time and missed critical opportunities. Your easy-to-follow teaching style literally hand-held us, taught my team time-saving skills, and saved us $1,000's of dollars in lost revenue. Thank you!" Walter P., Orange and Blue Marketing

From Aaron: "Hi there, my name is Aaron and I've professionally taught Indesign to hundreds of students. I've created hundreds of layouts in Indesign, from simple fiction books to complex guides and textbooks. Together we'll work through real projects will real manuscripts. You'll learn everything you need to know to be successful. This course is filled with instruction that gets you to success fast."

This course will save you from wasting $100's if not $1,000's of your hard-earned money. Many "pro" book layout designers learn from YouTube as they go, wasting your money. Other Indesign contractors charge insane amounts of money. That's why I made this course. It's for people who want to learn fiction book layout or need to do the job themselves.

  • Bethany: "What you just taught me almost made me cry. Before your class, my boss made me change the font in our company book twice. It took me a week. With what you showed me, I could've been literally done in a minute. One week cut down to one minute. I hope others find your course." Bethany R., Outdoor Medical Training School

This course helps you avoid these mistakes:

  • Creating text that's incorrectly spaced out and looks weird

  • Justified text that still looks jagged - pro tips

  • Overload of hyphen breaks

  • Orphans and widows - random text starting a page

  • Wrong hyphens - you probably used the wrong hyphens

It's so easy to make mistakes and not see them during book layout. Aaron has seen books with beautiful covers but the inside looked like a hack job. Trying to do book layout in Microsoft Word will make your book look terrible. Word just doesn't have the right tools.

This course includes:

  • Sample complete manuscripts for practice

  • Sample copyright page text completely free to use

  • Sample word processing program files for challenge assignments

Aaron shares the tricks he's learned over years of doing fiction book layout design. The goal of this course is to teach you how to make your own book PDF and not look like an amateur doing it. You'll learn the necessary skills to make turn your manuscript into a pro PDF.

Manuscript software formatting guidelines include:

  • Microsoft Word

  • Google Docs

  • OpenOffice

  • Scrivener

  • Apple Pages

Even if you used a different program, the instructions for the above software will help you figure out what you need to do. Ask questions in the course forum and Aaron will do his best to help you out.

There are a lot of small but important details in fiction book layout. Avoid making errors with this course. You spent 100's of hours perfecting your manuscript. Don't make the rookie mistake of making your book look like it was prepared by a fifth-grader.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone wanting to create a professional PDF from their fiction manuscript

  • Aaron's course is for people with no InDesign experience. No previous publishing knowledge required.

  • This course is relaxed and bite-sized. It's broken down into small skills that won't overwhelm you. You only need basic computer skills to succeed.

Aaron Linsdau Learning: Skills. Fast.

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Reviews

Cynthia
October 16, 2023
So far so good. I see it is from 2019. If our brilliant software creators would sit on their hands for a year or two, we might get some mastery. My point, under help, I don't see a search function and Help sends me out to Learn and Support Land. The program could already do more than is humanly possible in 2019. Slow the heck-fire down. We can't compete with AI, might as well enjoy our lives. Anyway...the teacher is great.
Mike
February 11, 2023
Excellent course, very clear explanations from a professional who clearly knows their topic! Very engaging easy to follow with lots of tips and processes to follow.
Larry
January 22, 2023
This is an outdated and poorly structured course. I kept asking myself why we're doing one step before another. I also couldn't find EditMinion because it's now over 10 years old. I wish the teacher would have made some sort of announcement with those updates.
Lynne
December 15, 2022
Wonderfully engaging speaker who cuts right to the chase with skills training. Enjoyable and super helpful to this author. Thank you!
José
September 23, 2022
The chunking of information allows us to not be overwhelwn and the pace and tone of voice are also excellent.
Sarah
April 4, 2022
The pace was just right for me, having never viewed the Indesign interface before. The shortcuts are very useful to know too.
Donna
February 25, 2022
Exactly what I was looking for. His pro tips alone are worth the price. The only thing I wish was included was how to make a table of contents.
Treasa
January 18, 2022
This course is great for learning, but I asked questions that never got answered and I am still hunting for those answers. I am going to reach out to the instructor on his other sites to see if he can help me. If not I will keep searching until I figure it out. I really would have given this 5 stars if I can gotten responses to my questions.
Lindsey
May 10, 2021
I already had some experience in book formatting, but I wanted to know what I didn't know. I have already learned a few shortcuts and tips to be more efficient.
Judith
September 14, 2020
Goed en duidelijk opgezet. Bij 1 filmpje heb ik tijd moeten zoeken naar een panel, daarom geen 5 sterren.
Patrick
August 23, 2020
The instructor doesn't seem to know his way around the interface and mispronounces simple words like "primer".
Roman
June 15, 2020
This course is simply amazing. Aaron's explanations are simple, thorough, and practical. I highly recommend this course to everyone who wants to learn how to create a great looking book in InDesign.
Roy
May 14, 2020
The course has been thorough - more than I expected and better than trying to figure this all out on youtube.
Walter
April 20, 2020
The class was quite instructive. It helped me understand the Indesign workflow, something I couldn't find on Youtube. I sped up some of the videos because I didn't care about Scrivener and such, but it's good to know how to handle that software for future reference.

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