Masterclass: How to Create Your Own Workbooks, Checklists and Journals

Hi all I’m doing a Masterclass training on creating your own workbooks, checklists or journals. The training is $27 for the next 10 people, this course will include templates. If you are interested checkout the link below to sign up. The product will be released June 12th.

Learn more about the masterclass at How to Create Your Own Workbooks, Checklists and Journals.

How to Create Your Own Workbooks, Checklists, or Journals.

This course will be released on June 12th, 2020 at 12 pm EST!

In this masterclass, we will discuss how to create workbooks, checklists, and journals. This masterclass is perfect for anyone who has an existing business, self-help, or how-to book. Or if you are a coach, consultant, or teacher. If you are developing a book this class will also help you think about how you can structure your book and if you can add a workbook to it. I bet you can.

Workbooks are a great way to add an additional product to your business. You can create an entire program around a workbook that sells for much more than the original book.

Who is this Masterclass for?

This class is perfect for any author that has a business, self-help, or how-to book. Also, teachers, coaches, and consultants.

Included in the Masterclass

• The Hidden Treasure in Your Book

• Discovering your workbooks parts

• How to create your workbook, checklist or journal

• I will be including the templates from the class so you can create your own workbooks, checklist, and journals.

• How to publish your workbook, checklist or journal

Learn more about the masterclass at How to Create Your Own Workbooks, Checklists and Journals.

375,000 Images from the Met Museum for Free

You can now use over 375,000 images from the Met Museum for free, yes that is correct. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has announced that thousands of pieces of art images in its collection are now in the public domain and can be used without restrictions.

This is part of their Open Access policy. It allows you to use their images for commercial and noncommercial use, free of charge and without any permission.  Think about the children's books or coloring books you could make. The images are under the Creative Commons rules which govern how information is shared.

You can read more about the new policy at, https://mymodernmet.com/metropolitan-museum-of-art-open-access/

Here is the link for the Met Collection, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection, Click on Open Access Artworks, and click on the Open Access box in the search window.

This is a great resource for artwork for our books and publications. As they say on the Met site, Open Access Artworks, Enjoy more than 406,000, (looks like they are continuing to add to the collection), hi-res images of public domain works from the collection that can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction. [Fantastic]

If you want to access more museum and collection images you can also search the collections on the Creative Commons site. CC has over 20 collections of images that are in the public domain and that you can use to create books, design projects, https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/collections. These images are classified as Creative Commons 0 or CC0, which is their public domain label.

Be sure to always learn about your images and what rights apply to each. Here is a good place to start, https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/about

TRAINING SESSION: Learn How to Make a Journal Book Using PowerPoint

PowerPoint is a powerful program with a lot of capabilities. Most of us it for creating presentations, but it can also be used as a graphic design page layout program. Like a poor man's InDesign. It is really quite amazing. In today's presentation I will be using it to create a Journal Notebook that we can sell on Amazon through CreateSpace.

This training covers creating your journal from beginning to end. Creating the page template, adding lines, art and finishing the print ready PDF. We then move to creating the cover spread, which includes the back, spine and front plus bleeds.

Click here to watch the PowerPoint training: How to Make a Journal Book Using PowerPoint

For the training session I developed a full 6" x 9" x 120 page PowerPoint template that you can use to build your own journal note book. Both the 120 page inside and the full cover spread are included in as part of the Easy Journal Books course.

This training is part of the Easy Journal Book online course that I also offer in my Publishing Mastery Academy. Along with the PowerPoint training is included the InDesign training and the page and cover templates.

Click here to watch the InDesign training: How to Make a Journal Book Using InDesign

120 Page PowerPoint Journal Template, Included in Easy Journal Book Course

Cover Template for a 120 Page PowerPoint Journal Book. Included in Easy Journal Book Course

Both the 120 page book and cover templates are included in the Easy Journal Book Course.

TRAINING SESSION, Learn How to Make a Journal Book Using InDesign,

I will be live today in the How to Publish Your Book Facebook Group teaching how to make a Journal Book using InDesign. The training session is today at 3:00pm EST October 20, 2017. Come over and join the group and check out the session. Journal Books are fun and easy to make

To know more about the full training course check out EasyJournalBooks.com

You can check out the training session video by Clicking Here, How to Make a Journal Book Using InDesign

Behind the Scenes on Fixing a CreateSpace Cover Issue

Learn how I fixed an issue on the cover with one of the illustration on my new book Camping & Travel Adventure Journal. I uploaded the book with a .png file for one of the illustrations think it would be transparent. I ordered and received the printed proofs and the illustration came out with a white background. I realized I needed to go back in an create an updated Adobe Illustrator graphic. Learn how I did it in this new behind the scenes video.




Here is how the cover came out from the first round of proof from CreateSpace. The white should be transparent

Congratulations to Becky Norwood on Her New Business Networking Journal

Congratulations to Becky Norwood of Spotlight on Your Business, for the release of her new Networking Journal Book created from the lessons learned from my new course Easy Journal Books, so cool. I love seeing results and action.

Here she describes it in her own words

"So, after having J. Bruce Jones as a guest presenter in my Journey to Authorship class, on how to create a journal/devotional/coloring book...I put together what I wanted and had my cousin Krista put it together after she attended the class. Well, she finished it, and together I walked her through how to upload it to CreateSpace.com to be available on Amazon.com. Well...we did that last night...today she already has it in her hot little hands! Me? I ordered copies to give to my BNI (Business Networking International) group. Because I ordered enough for my own chapter, I'm told it will be here in 3 weeks! Talk about exciting! This journal is a tracking system for people who use networking to grow their businesses and is available on Amazon...ALREADY!"

To check out the book on Amazon.com, Click Here http://amzn.to/1VC9Tzm

To learn more about the Easy Journal Books course please visit our course home. Click Here, Easy Journal Books

How to Line Up Text so it Matches the Lines on the Page when Making a Journal Book

A question from a student from my course on Easy Journal Books: How do I Line up Text so it matches the Lines and spacing on each page.

Answer: When Making a Journal Book in PowerPoint the trick for getting your text and lines to line up is to use the leading feature in type specing to line stuff up, You want to match the leading of your text with the leading of your lines. Leading is the space between lines type. Type is written like this 10/12, this is ten point type with 12 points of leading between each line, but that is also a measurement that you can use to line things up. All of this will be done on the master slide

1. Make a block of text that is the size and spacing (leading) that you like

2. Change the text to lines using the underscore key stroke. Use the block of type and instead of making words, make lines. Adjust the spacing, top to bottom

3. If you don't like the line thickness of the Underscore character, then use them as a template that we can draw lines on top of. Draw lines on top of the underscored lines.

4. Use the Alignment feature of PowerPoint to even out the spacing of the lines

5. Delete the Underscored lines and keep the drawn lines. Group them to keep them together and you should be ready to go

To learn more about the Easy Journal Books course please click this link 

Be sure to sign up for my free How to Market Your Book course over on the right.

How to Make Easy Journal Books Training Session

Learn How to Make a Journal Book Using PowerPoint

We had a lot fun yesterday with the How to Make Easy Journal Books live training session. I did this webinar in association with Becky Norwood of SpotlightOnYourBusiness.com. We had a great group of students and I took them through the process of making a journal book using PowerPoint. We worked on the interior and cover. Here is a replay of the broadcast.


To buy the course please click this Easy Journal Books.
As a special thank you use the coupon code JournalBooksSpotlight for $50 off the list price.

Included as a bonus for the course I am including free access to my How to Market Your Book course. Once you sign up I will connect you to How to Market

Also included templates for a 6 x 9, 160 page journal book.