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Kristina God's avatar

Shmuel Robert Puelz (Rob) asked inside the membership experience

Hey there colleagues…..I want to compile my Substack posts into a digital book by topical area. I have the topical areas worked out. I prefer to avoid taking the posts into Latek and compiling them there…..Have you seen solutions for Substack writers?

Thank you.

Any tips?

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Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman's avatar

Hmmmm, I'm not so sure about that. I'm pretty old school with tech, mostly work with Microsoft Word and more recently with Apple Pages (which by the way is just so much better than Word).

So after getting into a document that's organized well by subject, I hired a typesetter/graphics person to make it into a real book. For my first self-published edition, I worked with a fellow on Fiverr who was affordable and did a great job for that price (I'm happy to share with you his profile by DM if that's helpful). For the second, professionally published edition (with Menucha Publishers), I worked with a local expert who really brought the book up to the next level.

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Kristina God's avatar

Hi Shmuel, if you could recommend someone his would be cool. However, I think the second one then was the best to help you... So I guess for professionally published editions you need to level up the design and branding of the book.

You can send me the name/Link in the DMs. Good idea with Apple Pages! Most of my members use Apple.

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Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman's avatar

Yes, for sure. The Fiver was a good start, and in some cases can be enough. But there really (at least not yet) isn't a substitute for a professional designer. But still, I'll send you the Fiver's contact info soon by DM

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