Fonts and professional formatting

In all of my previous books including Rome's Revolution, I have not spent any time formatting the book the way a typesetter would except for full justification of the text. For example, here is the title page for Rome's Revolution in plain old Times New Roman:
For my new book, The Milk Run, I have tried to add a few more professional touches to make it stand out. I used the same font (Neuropol) for the title page as the cover:



For the start of each chapter, I changed the first line to small caps to make it stand out:

Finally, each page now has the book title and my name at the top except for new chapters:



Of course all of these improvements only apply to the paperback. E-books lose all this formatting. Oh well. Hopefully, though, if you buy the paperback, it will look a bit more polished than my previous works.

P.S. Thanks to Michelle Proulx who discussed these tips in this blog article.
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Published on February 26, 2015 05:00 Tags: action, adventure, ftl, science-fiction, space-travel, vuduri
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