Boilerplate Books: Publisher of the Mouse and Elephant Books Series

Boilerplate Books, LLC is a small, woman-owned publishing company offering digital prepress services to authors and writers: book design, cover design, layout and formatting for traditional print (B&W/CMYK) for the printer of your choice, or print-on-demand at Amazon. E-publishing services as flowable (Kindle/basic epub) or Fixed Layout (Apple Books) delivery – vendor specific. Digital publishing files are checked via FlightDeck. Interactive services include Adobe InDesign interactive publishing via IN5, or PDF fillable workbooks, flipbooks, web-based presentations, or anything else you can dream up! Contact me directly about your next publishing project. 

New Release!

The Singing Berries: A Mouse and Elephant Book

by Holly Valero

Pumpkin tea and toast without jam? Unthinkable! Join Mouse and Elephant on a wild strawberry quest that leads them to a new kind of berry – one that seems to be singing.

Book 4 of the Mouse and Elephant Series

Published: February 14, 2024

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Traditional printing & prepress

Over 30 years of experience in delivering camera-ready packages for traditional 4-color press: newspapers, educational publishing, trade publications, fiction & nonfiction, workbooks, coporate reports, data books, calendars, posters, banners, signage of all types  – and most recently full color children's picture books. 

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Digital Prepress for Kindle, Fixed Layout, Apple Books, Kindle for Kids, and Flowable Epubs

Over 10 years of experience in delivering fixed layout and flowable ebooks for Apple Books, Amazon Kindle, Google Play, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. I use FlightDeck to check all publications for vendor approval.

 

Adobe InDesign + IN5: Interactive Publications

Adobe InDesign is the world's most flexible publishing platform. It is the industry standard for traditional print projects, PDF and interactive PDF, and now - with a little help from Ajar Productions IN5 plugin, rich HTML5-powered web-based publishing that supports video, audio, animation, thumbnails, full-screen mode, and social sharing. Interactive publishing is viewable on any computer, laptop or tablet. It's not for traditional ereaders. It falls into three basic categories:

Level 1: Interactive PDFs published to Adobe's Cloud or your website.

This PDF is handy for evergreen publications, and unlike a website – there's less of a committment to upgrade code. Adobe's cloud format is also embeddable, so the document can live at Adobe and still appear in your website. Notice the lower toolbar below the page thumbnails.

See Fur, Fluff, Feathers, Scales: Animals A to Z at Adobe's Cloud Platform 

Level 2: Flipbooks that support audio, video and animation

Rich magazines, newsletters, coffee table books – virtually any kind of story – displayed as a screen/full screen book or flipbook. Delivered in a folder that you can simply upload to the web server location of your choice. Scales to work on any device, and can be designed for any size to create a truly focused, elegant and immersive content experience. 

See Finland Flip for a flipbook example with video and animation or Pocket Webmaster. 

Level 3: Full-blown animation, immersive exploration

Educational projects, light gaming, and any topic-focused presentation that doesn't require a strict walkthrough from chapter to chapter, but encourages discovery. Scales to work on any device, and can include all sorts of audio, video, and animation, buttons – the works. 

See Pirates! Treasures of the Deep for an example.   

Working on a print project and need some help? Contact me directly.

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