Guest: Conference Speaker Dick Margulis Independent authors often expect freelance communications professionals to design and lay out their books. Get the basics of using InDesign to provide effective, attractive, readable typography, and layout through a software demonstration where you will leave prepared to work on projects created in InDesign.

NAIWE's Conference Speaker Dick Margulis Self-publishing authors have become one of the biggest, and often best, potential clients for freelancers, especially editors, proofreaders, indexers, illustrators, photographers, and book designers. Working with these clients often means shepherding them through the publishing process. In this webinar, discover how to manage this potentially profitable side of freelancing.

Guest: NAIWE’s Book Cover Expert Tamian Wood In this webinar you’ll learn the basics of color psychology, including cultural responses and the language of color. You’ll also have the opportunity to explore the transformative magic of typography and how you can use it, in varying ways, to change the message of your words through your font choice. And lastly, we’ll take a dive into tracking, kerning, and leading.

Guest: NAIWE’s Research Paper Expert Yateendra Joshi Research and academic papers rarely make easy reading, given the dense subject matter, rigid conventions, and unappealing layout and design. Also, the layout and design must work across platforms and devices. The design must also take into account how research papers are accessed because rarely are they read from beginning to end.