Typesetting Questionnaire - Riaan Wilmans Art and Design

Please provide your email address? *

What is the book title, subtitle, editor and author names please?

What is the book genre?

Who is your publisher, please? Are you self-publishing?

Have you published books previously? Please paste their titles here.

Authors usually have a consistent style applied to all their books.

Will this book be part of a series where the same identity is carried through from one book to the other?

A series also usually have a consistent style.

Please describe your target audience?

Do you already have a book cover design?

Yes
No
I have an author-designed draft book cover that

Do you need help with professional cover design?

Yes
No
Please tell me more

What do you think the dimensions should be of the book pages?

A common trim size is 6 x 9 inches (152.4 x 228.6 mm)

Will the book interior be colour or black and white?

How many graphic inserts does the document already have? What kind of graphic inserts is it, is it photos, images, lists, extracts, quotes, tables, figures or other kinds of graphic elements? (copy)

Have these graphic elements been optimised for its end use, or do you need help with that?

Paperbacks and hardcovers = 300dpi CMYK. Ebooks = 96 to 150dpi RGB.

Do you need me to source or create some or all of the graphic inserts, if yes please list them?

Would you like a decorative or thematic visual element to appear at the beginning of each chapter?

No, I prefer a clean, text-focused chapter opening
Yes, a simple decorative element
Yes, a thematic visual element
Yes, I have my own artwork/elements
I would like you to suggest/design an appropriate element
I'm not sure, please advise

A simple decorative element can be a small ornament, icon, symbol, flourish, line, or geometric shape, while a thematic visual element is usually a small illustration, motif, vignette, pattern, or graphic related to the book’s subject.

Which typeface style do you think will suit your manuscript?

Classical: serif typefaces
Modern: sans serif typefaces
Classical combined with modern
Expressive: typefaces which express emotion

Has the document been edited?

Once the manuscript has been typeset, will you send the typeset manuscript to an indexer to help with indexing, or will the book not have an index?

An index is different from a table of contents. The index is at the back of the book and it lists the page numbers of important topics.

Does the manuscript include footnotes?

Yes
No

If yes, where would you like to feature the footnotes?

At the bottom of each page
At the end of the chapters as endnotes
At the end of the book as endnotes

Would you like folios and running headers?

Folios, yes
Running headers, yes
Folios, no
Running headers, no

Folios = page numbers. Running headers = small ALL CAPS book titles on the top of the left page, and small ALL CAPS chapter headings on top the right page.

With regard to costs, what is most important to you:

To get the book interior design done as cheap as possible even if it compromises the quality?
To achieve a high-quality end result for enhanced reader engagement and satisfaction with less concern about how much it will cost?
To find a balance between quality and cost by compromising on some aspects of the design?

If none of the above, please explain what is most important to you with regards to costs?

Are there anything else you would like to add?

How can this form be improved?