Typesetting – getting down to it
The time has come to teach myself some of the finer points of typesetting before putting all the content together. This is the last day of 2023 and I’m bracketing what I need to learn through daily…
Majuscule Press
The time has come to teach myself some of the finer points of typesetting before putting all the content together. This is the last day of 2023 and I’m bracketing what I need to learn through daily…
Part of the process of book making will involve some element of illustration. In the last few weeks I have been researching how to simulate a lino cut effect on an ipad. I have been using a…
I have now managed to contact a printer and have got some ball park costings as well as the technical details of handing over a typeset book. It cost rather less than I was expecting so I’m…
I have enough poems for a couple of pamphlets that I will be issuing through the press next year. In the meantime I have been having tremendous fun taking up the idea put forward in the Writers’…
Well one of the things that stirred me into action was a review in the TLS of Anne Trubeck’s : So You Want To Publish A Book? It is a good broad brush overview of the publishing…
Poetry is a slow fuse lit from the distance of decades. Starting up a small poetry press from scratch is not something I would recommend to anyone – ever. There are hundreds of small presses, poetry magazines…