Produce Your Family History Book for $20 – The Lessons
Take your family history to the next level with the skills you need to expand your research, write your stories, and publish your findings on paper or online.
The following lessons will help you put together and print a book for private purchase on the website lulu.com. Even watching a couple of the lessons will probably help you move your project along.
Lesson 1: Are You Ready to Publish?
Do you think you have materials suited to a printed book? Do you think there could be useful reasons to save your work in printed form?
Lesson 2: Five Decisions to Make Before You Start
What do you need to decide before you start your book?
Lesson 3: Formatting Content and Illustrations
You may know more than you think about the kinds of formatting and illustration typically used in a printed book. Tips in this section will help you make good progress on your pages.
Lesson 4: What Can your Genealogy Software Do For You?
It is easy to create custom reports from the genealogy software on your computer. It takes some practice and learning how to find all the available options.
Lesson 5: 10 Ideas to Get You Writing
Check out these ideas for creating content for your book that your family will enjoy.
Lesson 6: Create a Title Page
Every book needs a specific set of pages at the beginning. If you are creating your book in several parts, use this page-by-page guidance to get the first few pages right.
Lesson 7: 10 Things to Know about Your Final PDF
Book self-publishing sites now require one single PDF document for the entire book interior. Let’s investigate what’s needed for that.
Lesson 8: Producing the book on Lulu.com
The special considerations for meeting Lulu.com’s requirements for commercially salable books and for books that we want to print only for ourselves are covered along with the screens for uploading the book and making style selections.
Lesson 9: Create a Book Cover
Once the book interior is created, the dimensions of the cover become available. Simple covers can be created right on Lulu.com. More complex designs must be created on your own, saved as PDF’s, and uploaded to the Lulu site.
Lesson 10: Pricing, buying and selling your book
Simple instructions for ordering copies of your own book plus an introduction to several book sale options available through Lulu.com.
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