Month: September 2015

A book is a great way to document all your achievements.

There are so many firsts that happen in a person’s life and other special events that are worth capturing, and these events can’t simply be captured by a single photo. Turning them into a book will give you the ability to show them to family and friends, pass them down through generations, and relive the joy and celebration that those times brought you. Here are 3 life events that are worth turning into a book.

1. First Year Of Marriage

The first year of marriage is filled with so many firsts. You can make a book to capture the wedding day and all the beauty and emotion that takes place when you decided to commit to experiencing the rest of your lives together. It could also contain the memories that were made enjoying and celebrating your honeymoon. Putting these memories into a book will let you look back at this time during all your subsequent anniversaries. During your first year of marriage you’ll have your first holidays together as a married couple, you might buy a house together, or even decide to make a big move or start a family. Making a book is a great way to capture this monumental year of change and excitement that you experience as a couple.

2. Graduations

There are so many graduations worth turning into a book that you can share with others and turn into keepsakes for yourself. One is a child’s first year of school, filled with all the memories of them making new friends, meeting their teachers, and learning to read and write. This is a great way to see how far your child has come after only one year in school. Maybe you’re a working parent that just graduated college between raising your kids, working a job, and taking care of your house. It’s difficult to measure our accomplishments on a daily basis when we’re simply going through the tasks that need to be done. But when we’re able to look back and see where we started from and where we ended up, we can truly celebrate our hard work and determination that got us to the finish line.

3. First Pregnancy

As a first-time mom, you’ll experience so many emotions and events. You can put into a book all the different changes you went through with each trimester. You can document the day you found out you were pregnant, the first doctor’s appointment, and the first ultrasound. Other events to include might be the times you went shopping for your baby, decorated their room, and picked out their first outfit. Your book could show the baby shower, their birth, and the first time you finally got to hold them in your arms. Making a book to cherish this time would be a perfect way to preserve your memories and pass them on to your children one day.

Make a book to remember all the little joys of pregnancy.

These are just 3 life events worth turning into a book. A book is a perfect way to preserve the memories and firsts that you experience and to look back at all the hard work that you did to accomplish your goals. It’ll remind you how far you have come in life, where you started, and the beautiful things that happened in between. It’s the perfect keepsake. Click here to get started or try it out.

Turn your art into a book.

As a poet, you use words and symbolic messages to provide others with meaningful information that’s beautiful and fun to read. Instead of storing those poems on your computer or on multiple pieces of notebook paper, here are 4 reasons to make your poetry book.

1. Create A Family Heirloom

Family heirlooms are like windows to the past. Discovering them is like finding hidden treasure. One of the best things about family heirlooms is that you can create your own heirloom, and you can start with your poetry book. Not only would a poetry book be valued by your closest family members, but it would be a gift that’s passed down throughout each generation. It would be cherished among your heirs and tell stories to them they never got to experience first hand. This will provide them with a piece of their history and an impression about you and your life.

2. Easily Share With Others

There are many moments that arise when we naturally want to have the ability to share a poem that we’ve written. It might be in the middle of a conversation, a life celebration that a loved one is experiencing, or even an obstacle that someone might be going through. Whether it’s with family, friends, acquaintances, or coworkers, making a book of poems lets you easily share your work with others. You can show them your bookstore quality printed book or send them a copy in digital form. Either way, sharing your work can be beneficial not just to yourself but to others as well.

Show off all your hard work at your next gathering.

3. Get Noticed

If you have goals of being a published poet, then creating a book of your poems can put you on track to making this goal happen. You could get noticed because you now have a book to present during your next creative writing course or in your poetry-writing group. The poems you share could spark interest amongst someone who has been looking for the type or style of poems that you write. It’ll also show that you’re serious and committed to your writing.

4. Express Yourself & Commemorate Life’s Special Moments

Poetry is a great way to look back over various life events because they’re works of art that allow you to express what you’re feeling and experiencing. You could make a lyrical poem for your wedding, a narrative one for your first-born child, and a rhyming one that entertains your toddler. Turning your words into a book will make a keepsake that you can go back to over and over again to relive, enjoy, and cherish various life moments and milestones.

Making a book from your poems will let you organize them by styles, tone, and stories. You can group them into family stories you want to pass down as heirlooms, have them on hand or ready to share with the click of a button, or use them to revisit and enjoy life’s special moments. You can also use your book to get noticed by magazines, blogs, and other publications. To see how easy it is to make your book, click here to get started or try it out.

Give your family something memorable.

Publishing your stories, recipes, poems, and more can make great gifts and keepsakes for all your family and friends. If this is your first time publishing a book, it doesn’t have to be intimidating or the least bit scary. To help you get your story out there, here are 5 great pieces of advice.

1. Start With A Topic You Enjoy

Everyone has a passion or knowledge that they can share with others. If you like to cook then right a cookbook about the foods you love. Maybe you’re a teacher and want to write a book about your students or a mom with a green thumb who wants to write about flowers. Start with what you know and love and it will be easy for you to expand on it.

2. Begin At The End

Think about what you want your readers to get out of your story. Maybe you want them to be able to cook your famous chocolate chip cookies or have a deeper understanding for middle schoolers. Whatever it is, think of the goal you want them to be able to achieve or the emotion you want to evoke. Focusing on the end will help you to build some structure into your story that gets you to that result.

3. Use An Outline

After you’ve decided what you want your readers to know, feel, or accomplish, create an outline. Using an outline makes it easier to take each step in your story and expand on it to get to that end result. It lays things out and gives you a blueprint of your story, which will make it clearer in your mind and your writing process will go smoother.

4. Be Specific And Include All The Little Details

No matter what type of book you’re working on, you want to make sure that your reader has a visual of your story. If you’re writing a how-to book, don’t leave out any steps even if you think your reader will already know they have to do that. You want to make sure they can accomplish the end result by including all the details that will get them there. If you’re writing your life story, then dig deep into your feelings. If it becomes an emotional journey for you, then it will become an emotional journey for your reader. All these details will allow you and your reader to connect.

Set some time aside to write.

5. Write

You’ve decided you want to create your first book, so you need to make your writing a priority. Schedule it into your weekly activities so it doesn’t get pushed to the side. When you sit down to write, don’t do your editing at the same time. Just write without worrying about changing it around. If you think of a better way to say something than write that also, but don’t keep going back over your writing, because that will slow you down.

We all have something that we can write about. Something that is unique about our lives or our experiences that will resonate with others. Don’t worry if you haven’t written a book before, just click here to get started or try it out, and find out how easy it is to publish your first book.

Bookemon can help you turn your ideas into a keepsake.

Everyone has a one of a kind story to tell, and Bookemon makes publishing your story achievable, as we break it down into easy-to-follow steps. You don’t need to hire an editor, a designer, or a book agent, and you don’t need a technical background. If you want to know how to publish a book, just follow these four steps.

1. Create Your Free Account

Start by creating an account. It’s free, and there’s no credit card required. Click here and input your name, email, and a password for your account.

2. Style Your Book

Once you have logged in, get started designing your book. You’ll have a variety of formats to choose from so you won’t need to spend a lot of money on a custom layout. There are tons of background images and clip art for cookbooks, holidays, celebrations, children, and more. This makes it easy for you to design and format your book from the front cover to the back cover and all the pages between. You can also upload your designs or images. There’s no need to pay a designer or illustrator, and you get to make all the decisions with a few clicks of the mouse. This allows you to stay in total control of the design, reap all the benefits from it, and save a ton of money.

3. Add Your Content

We’ll walk you through creating and editing every page of your book so you can arrange the content as you go along. To do this, we use page and book tools that let you easily delete, move, and add all your content so that it’s formatted exactly the way you choose. If you have already written your book, then just upload your writing with our exclusive document to book feature. Documents can be uploaded from Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe. You don’t have to be tech savvy or hire an expert. We have written help all along the way to guide you through the process seamlessly so you can do all this yourself.

4. Publish

When you’re ready to show off your new book, just hit the publish button. This will complete your book and allow you to share it with others for free. You only make a payment if you want to have your book in print. Once you have published your book, click on “my content” and then “my books” to see it. Here you can view your book, share it on social media, or grab the URL to share with others or put on your website.

Bookemon lets you share your digital book for free.

Our four-step book publishing process allows you to turn your poetry, family history, children stories, how-tos, photos, and more into tangible keepsakes. Your book can be published in digital form at no charge. You can even make your book available for everyone to read, choose just a selected few to share it with, or have it be private and share only the link with your chosen friends and family. Click here to get started or try it out.

Personalized bedtime stories add a special touch to the nighttime routine.

Creating a homemade bedtime story is a great way to give your kids a legacy that they can pass down through generations. It might require some out-of-the-box thinking to get started, but in the end it is so much more fun to read your child a story that you created. Here are some tips for making it great!

Have it solve a problem

If there is a lesson that you want to teach your child or something that keeps coming up in their life that they need a little help with, then make it the problem that is solved in the story. Putting things in a different perspective can sometimes make the lesson crystal clear. If they can relate to the problem in the story, they might be able to solve this problem in their life too.

Make your child the star

You don’t have to look far for the main character or the cute sidekick. You can always make your child the star of your story. Children love to pretend. Some like to play the part of the superhero, princess, or even the villain. They also love to save the day and be the center of attention. If your child is the superstar of their bedtime story, it will give them a chance to bring their imagination to life.

Include an interest that your child has

In your story include some of your child’s favorite things. This might be a family pet or their favorite doll or action figure. It could also include a class of items like monster trucks or kittens. Adding something that your child relates to or adores will keep them interested and excited to hear what is going to happen next.

Make your child’s favorite stuffed animal apart of their personalized bedtime story.

Add Structure

If you need a little structure in your story than you can use a technique called the story spine. Just fill in the blank to the following questions to get you started in your story or to help you if you get stuck along the way:

Once upon a time there was ___.
Every day, ___.
One day ___.
Because of that, ___.
Until finally ___.
And ever since that day______.

Give it a happy ending

If you have a story that aims at telling a moral or one where the main character encounters a problem you can still end it on a good note. The character in your story might even encounter many problems, but making the ending positive will show your child that obstacles can be overcome. This will make it a positive experience and one they will want to hear about over and over.

Giving your child a personalized bedtime story is a priceless gift and memory that you both will cherish for a long time. It shows them how special and unique they are and can convey a moral or life lesson that you want them to learn. We make the process of creating your bedtime story easy with no advanced technical skills required. Click here to get started. It’s free to join!

You can now make your dreams a reality by putting your book in print.

Have you been wanting to publish and print your book but thought you couldn’t afford to? Or maybe you just didn’t know where or how to even begin. At Bookemon, we make the book printing process simple and affordable. This allows you to focus on your writing and turn your published book into something tangible that you can hold and share with all your family and friends.

Easy Order Process

You used to have to spend thousands of dollars up front to pre-order a large amount of books that you might not be able to sell. With Bookemon, you order your books on demand so you can order just a single book or as many as you like. Just add your published book or one from someone else to your cart and checkout. There are no minimum requirements to the number of books you have to order.

Quick Turnaround Time

What use to take months in production now takes just a few days. You can get a softcover printed book ready to ship in 3 business days and a hardcover book ready to ship in 4 business days.

Bookstore Quality & Affordable Price

You have worked hard to publish your book and are ready to hold it in your hands. Bookemon can print your book utilizing the same technology used by all the major publishers. Your book will be bookstore quality which means it will look just like the ones you see in your local bookstore. Our prices are affordable and vary on the size of book you choose along with a variety of other options you have to pick from. You can get your hands on a bookstore quality book, written by you, for as low as $10.00 plus shipping.

Print your own beautiful bookstore quality book at a price you can afford.

Cover Sizes & Styles

At Bookemon, we offer hardcovers that are ridged and superb at protecting the inside pages. We also offer softcover books that have lots of flexibility. Both of these covers come in a variety of sizes ranging from smaller books that could fit inside a purse to larger books often used for photos. For the cover, you can pick a glossy stock that is shiny and radiant or a laminate stock that will be more matte.

Interior Page Styling

For your book’s pages, you’ll get to pick from black and white or color. You will also get to choose the color of your paper stock. The choices range from a natural looking off white to more of a heavier and glossier white paper. These options are available for both thinner and thicker books with over 100 pages.

Book printing was once only done using sophisticated machinery and hand-operated presses that were run by skilled tradesman. At Bookemon, we break the book printing process down into doable easy to follow pieces. We also make it affordable, so there is no need to spend a lot of money and hire multiple people to print your book. Don’t keep putting off your dreams. Click here to get started or try it out. It’s free to join!