Book To Publish? For Help, You Came To The Right Place! Ask For FAH – Fast And Helpful
Yes, I use Microsoft
Word – while MS Word is not called a desktop
publisher (DTP), my DTPing books via MS Word means I had mastered the
ins-and-outs of this software a long, long time ago yet! And with my UPLB BS
Agriculture major in Ag Edu, Civil Service Professional, I say I am a good
student because I have a good teacher!
Discovering will get you
places.
In 1994, I desktop published my first book, for UPLB professor
Ofelia Karganilla Bautista (OKB) –
her book was Introduction To Tropical
Horticulture (Second Edition) published by Searca. The book’s
Introduction in part says (searca.org):
The revision of the
first [edition] was done with the recognition that there have been important
changes and advances in the field of horticulture in the past 10 years.
However, this book still deals more on smallholder horticulture. It also
remains to be introductory in nature.
While this book
focuses mainly on Philippine horticulture, the principles discussed are
applicable to all countries of Southeast Asia. The language was kept as
"popular" as possible for the benefit of those who have special
difficulties with the technical language.
I was also the unofficial “Final Editor” of the book, correcting
and revising where necessary (and telling the book’s main editor-author Ms Ofelia).
It was all of 597 pages. I must have used Microsoft
Word Version 4.
In Dec 2005, I desktop published and edited my own book, Indios Bravos (Jose Rizal As Messiah Of
The Redemption), 164 pages in bond-paper size. I published it in limited
edition.
On Jan 2007, I began my assignment as writer from home (WFH)
for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
(ICRISAT) based in India, when Filipino science
thinker & leader William Dar
was Director General (DG). I did the DTP for a total of 8 ICRISAT books by me
and published in India (except #8):
(1)
Team ICRISAT Champions The Poor
(2) The Smart Revolution (image above is the
cover)
(3)
Exploiting
The Power Of Science, Transforming The SAT
(4)
ICRISAT Innovations
Shape The Future Of Drylands
(5)
Science Of
The Articulate: IMOD As ICRISAT & Partners’ New Drylands Strategy
(6)
ICRISAT &
Partners: Political Will Applied With Science
(7)
ICRISAT & Partners:
Thinking Globally, Acting Globally
(8) Science With A Human Face.
All those 8 books were products of my writing uploaded to the
dedicated blog iCRiSAT Watch (icrisatwatch.blogspot.com).
Yes Sir, I used MS Word to write, edit, blog, collect and desktop-publish all
of them!
What
all those books prove is that you don’t need to look for someone who uses difficult
Adobe InDesign or Microsoft Publisher to get your book desktop
published expertly! Message me on Facebook for my email.@517
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