New novel created in Designer Pro X 16.

I just finished formatting my wife's new novel, The Three-Day Departure of Mrs. Annette Zinn by Mary E. Carter. The book is now published and available on Amazon.

As you all have heard me gross a dozen times, separate left and right pages, plus master pages would have made this project so much easier. On the other hand, I know Designer Pro and I work quickly and confidently within the program.

The book tells the story of a woman who dies at age 95 and spends three days reviewing her life before finally moving into the afterlife. This is based on a book, The Soul by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz in which he writes:

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“In the corpus of Jewish mystical literature, it is said that for three days after the death of the body, the soul is still hovering close to the body, so to speak, and does not completely depart from it. In short, the soul requires some time to accustom itself to its new situation.”

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I have included the cover, one of the three section pages and a spread. I used Sabon MT and Sabon MT SCOfF (Caps and Small Caps). The font for the section titles and drop caps is Aire Bold Pro. The free version does not have the swash caps and the font will not embed in a production PDF file.

I was able to work on the entire book in one document.

Looks amazing. =D>

Thanks Rik. We liked the unusual format of 8 1/4 square. And the design just suggested itself.

Excellent work, Gary.

FYI Noticed some missing punctuation and spacing in the Amazon info paragraph.

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FYI Noticed some missing punctuation and spacing in the Amazon info paragraph.

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We noticed this too. Not an easy thing to change. But I am going to give it a shot.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

... But I am going to give it a shot.

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Good luck!

Very nicely done. Does amazon let me see the first few pages? pdf?

Beautiful work, Gary. Love it.

behzad - It takes about a week for Amazon to add the Look Inside feature. And even then it is often just the front matter, copyright page, dedication, etc.

Ok, still very classy and nice.

Well done, Garry. Thumbs up.:-bd

Nice work, Gary, clearly made with love.

A very elegant overall look. It gives the impression it should be hard-backed and displayed in one of those classical ye olde library settings.

Thanks for all the nice comments.

For you the book is over, you need no longer concern yourself about Master Pages and such tomfoolery..

Good job!

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For you the book is over, you need no longer concern yourself about Master Pages and such tomfoolery..

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Except I am meeting with an author on Thursday to start another book project. Almost all dialog which is a lot harder to control. :-O

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

Except I am meeting with an author on Thursday to start another book project. Almost all dialog which is a lot harder to control. :-O

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Let me see, you are half-way through laying out the book, but the author decides it needs a major revision. Words changed, sentences edited, paragraphs appear and disappear.

Fortunately you will be using software that allows free flowing text across pages and this will be a very simple job..

Looks beautiful, Gary, congratulations to you both!