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Skelton Lake eBook

Skelton Lake e-book

I’m delighted that my latest book Skelton Lake is now available in 51 territories worldwide, available from Apple Books as a free download. It may just be 11 pages of ‘wild flowers, fungi and autumn photographed on a muddy walk’ around the lake but it looks good on an iPad or desktop, so I feel that I’ve got to grips with the process of designing and publishing and I can tackle something more ambitious.

You should be able to find it on the Apple Books Store by searching for ‘Skelton Lake’ or my name as author. Its Apple ID, the equivalent of the ISBN, is 1542460295.

Skelton Lake in the Apple Books store and - 'Common Puffball' page - as it appears when you open it in the Books app.

Skelton Lake in the Apple Books store and – ‘Common Puffball’ page – as it appears when you open it in the Books app.

Links

Skelton Lake eBook link

Skelton Lake eBook, PDF version (produced using Adobe InDesign)

Apple Books app for iPad and iPhone

Publishing with Pages

I’ve been trying to get around to publishing an eBook for years but it’s taken a short break in the Lake District and the latest version of Apple’s Pages desktop publishing software to get me started.

As you can see from the cover, I’ve been drawing from cafes again; the Lakeside Cafe attached to the theatre at Keswick gave us a view across the top end of Derwentwater to Cat Bells.

I managed only half a dozen sketches as we spent most of our days walking but I made efforts in the evening to write up notes about the day. With those, the sketches and a selection of my photographs, I’ve got the basis of a short eBook; an extended blog post.

The main purpose is to get familiar with the e-publishing process. Pages is a great starting point but, to keep things really simple, I’m sticking with a ready-made template, one was designed for a novel. I’ve got two other programs, Adobe InDesign CC2018 and Apple’s iBooks Author, which give more possibilities for tweaking the design and adding interactive features but Pages brings the process closer to using a regular word-processing program.

I’ll post a link to the finished eBook.

Link

Pages by Apple