An Affinity Publisher Template document is now available for making Tales of Argosa material under the Creative Commons licence (see p.1 of the ToA doc for the licence).
I used Word for my prior books, but upgraded to Affinity for ToA. I find it allows us to do more cool stuff in terms of formatting, shadows, image placement, and so on.
More importantly perhaps a program like this is almost required (I think) for offset printing (where there are strict rules about ink coverage, etc, different to PoD). I have also dabbled with Adobe Indesign, but have shied away from its subscription fee (even though it seems Indesign remains the industry standard, from what I can tell, which can make things easier when searching for help online or when dealing with printers).
If you are a content creator and need any help – especially if you’re considering getting into the offset printing area (where you can do things like inside cover printing, stitched binding, ribbons, etc) by all means reach out to me, I’m happy to share what I’ve learnt (proviso – I’m no expert!). In fact, I may do a youtube video about this topic sometime soon. We’ll see how we go.
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