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Levi Montgomery wrote a new blog post: An Interview With Ryan Lybeck, Graphic Designer 11 months, 2 weeks ago · View
You never know where a connection may be lurking. I have Moo cards of all my books, with the front cover on one side, in full color and almost exactly the same aspect ratio as the finished book, and my website and email address on the back. I’m far too willing to ask people, after only [...] -
Levi Montgomery commented on the blog post Self-Publishing is the Future of Everything 1 year, 5 months ago · View
Fifteen years ago, working as an industrial designer and therefore familiar with AutoCAD, pen plotters, etc, I predicted to my wife, as she struggled on the living room floor with a dress pattern, that in the near future she’d be able to go to the fabric store, find a pattern she liked, input her dimensions, [...]
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Levi Montgomery commented on the blog post Self-Publishing is Humanity’s Progress (and also the Apocalypse)
You can’t abolish money at all, you can simply make it look like something a lot different than it does now. Money is just a marker system to keep track of the favors we owe each other.
If you personally knew every single person you’d ever need anything from, you wouldn’t need money, but since society [...]1 year, 11 months ago · View
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Levi Montgomery commented on the blog post Self-Published Design Review:Jillian’s Gold by Levi Montgomery
That really wasn’t very clear, was it? I’m sorry, I’ve been up for 24 hours. Obviously, I have more control over the actual hyphenation than that. I can adjust the minimum number of letters before the split, the minimum number of letters after the split, and the number of consecutive hyphens. These are on a [...]
2 years ago · View
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Levi Montgomery commented on the blog post Self-Published Design Review:Jillian’s Gold by Levi Montgomery
I don’t use Word, I use OpenOffice, and the options on the hyphenation are different. The only things I could do to adjust word spacing would be to add or subtract words or compress or expand character spacing.
The problem with the text moving at CreateSpace is due to the fact that they increase the gutter [...]2 years ago · View
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Levi Montgomery commented on the blog post Self-Published Design Review:Jillian’s Gold by Levi Montgomery
First, let me thank you for the review. I appreciate everything you’re doing here to assist us all in making our books as perfect as we can. However, in an effort to learn as much as I can from this, I’d like to clarify some things. I’d rather not dwell too much on the design [...]
2 years ago · View
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Levi Montgomery commented on the blog post Self-Published Design Review: Waiting for Spring by R.J. Keller
I just bought this book!
2 years ago · View
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Levi Montgomery commented on the blog post Self-Published Design Review: Waiting for Spring by R.J. Keller
I’m a DIY guy primarily ’cause I have no money to pay people, and “X% of my profit forever!” doesn’t seem to be the motivator you might think it would be.
2 years, 1 month ago · View
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Levi Montgomery commented on the blog post Self-Published Design Review: Waiting for Spring by R.J. Keller
RJ, feel free to contact me if I can be of any assistance!
2 years, 1 month ago · View
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Levi Montgomery commented on the blog post Self-Published Design Review: Waiting for Spring by R.J. Keller
I don’t think I’d object to the use of Papyrus. It is, after all, a display face, intended for use in small bits and pieces, as a contrast to the main body of text. It’s not like she used it for the text block, unlike the subtitles of a certain current, and rather famous, movie.
I [...]2 years, 1 month ago · View
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Levi Montgomery posted on the forum topic Self-Publishers: Submit Your Book for a Design Review in the group Book Design for Self-Publishers:
I guess I'm not sure how to do this. I'd like to submit my fifth book, LIGHT ALWAYS CHANGES, a short novel now available in POD from CreateSpace and being serialized at http://www.lightalwayschangesnovel.wordpress.com
PDFs are available of both the cover and the interior, but I'm not sure where to send them.
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Levi Montgomery joined the group Book Design for Self-Publishers 2 years, 1 month ago · View
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Levi Montgomery wrote a new blog post: Terra Nova: The Search by Nathan Charlton
From the back cover of Terra Nova: The Search -In a small central California town, a seismologist working for the United States Geological Survey has made a terrifying discovery. A recent seismic phenomenon is predicting global volcanic activity that threatens to wipe mankind from the face [...]
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Levi Montgomery wrote a new blog post: Terra Nova: The Search by Nathan Charlton 2 years, 4 months ago · View
From the back cover of Terra Nova: The Search –
In a small central California town, a seismologist working for the United States Geological Survey has made a terrifying discovery. A recent seismic phenomenon is predicting global volcanic activity that threatens to wipe mankind from the face of the earth. Fearing widespread panic and civil disobedience, it [...]
