Editing & Design

Technical Editing

Ken specializes in taking content and working with you to create written and visual results that is best suited for the intended audience. This can be in the form of books, eBooks, user guides, articles, blogs, brand identity guides, newsletters, and contract proposals. (He can technically write, too!)

Manuscript Conversion to Kindle Book (KDP)

You’ve created a book that you want to get it on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)? Since InDesign CC is regarded as the best authoring tool for books, it used to be a mess to convert your book to look decent as a Kindle eBook. Exports to an interim eBook format, beta plug-ins, third-party apps, and manual editing of EPUB/HTML/MOBI files was a pain. He wrote InDesign to Kindle on how to do it. Even with “black magic,” the resultant Kindle eBooks may not look that good (and definitely not as good as a paperback).

Amazon has come to the rescue with the Kindle Create app. Preparing and translating a book’s content, however, can still be quite a challenge. (BTW, Ken can prepare your book for Apple Books by converting your book for iBooks Author.)

“How To” Handoff Specifications

With most projects that Ken works on, no project is complete without a handoff instructional specification delivered to the client. To safeguard work, version control backup is used at key milestones. A running activity log is also created summarizing how the work was performed. The benefit is that once a project is completed (D-U-N-N), the client (or another freelancer) should be able to update it later.

He recently completed a design project created a company logo and background art to be used for display monitor wallpaper, website animation, and mousepad: