Help needed - formatting a 500 page book

[Kwaga]

I am over my head formatting a 500 page book, is there anyone out there that would be willing to do it for me?

Thanks

 

Keith

[firstdefence]

@Kwaga

[sfriedberg]

What are the terms of the contract?  Or did you mean to add "for free"?

[Added in edit]  Is this just a matter of implementing the design in Affinity Publisher, or do you also need design/consultant services?  Have you already settled on the book design?  Is going to be the sort of deal where you give a hand-wavey general description of what you want, and after 40 hours of labor, you then tell the worker "No, no, that's not right at all.  What we really want is more something else."?  Or do you have a written-down, with measurements and useful sketches, plan for how you want this 500 page book laid out?  Have you selected your fonts?  Do you have a style scheme?

Is the book broken into sections or chapters which can be worked on independently, or is the text all one giant blob?  Is the text raw key strokes (often preferred) or does it come pre-styled in some word processor?  If the latter, what word processor, and did you use styles consistently or is it all character overrides all over the place?

Does this book involve any significant number (like more than 10 total or 1 on any given page) of footnotes or endnotes?  If so, Publisher is not (currently, v1.8) the tool of choice for the task.

What is the general subject matter (this will tell us a lot about expectations for the layout)?  Casual? Novel?  Poetry?  Academic?  Mathematical?  Legal?  Standards document?

Lots of illustrations?  No illustrations?