Sometimes the most powerful tool you can give someone is a blank page. A space where they can write down their thoughts, inspirations, feelings, and ideas. A place to record their wins, analyze their losses, and work toward the goals they want to achieve in life.
A journal provides all this – and more. Creating a journal is a great way to empower and uplift the people who use them, as it provides an organized space to focus thoughts, emotions and actions.
Journals have unlimited universal appeal – children, adults, businesses, therapists, health, fitness, nutrition, finance, relationship, emotional, spiritual, social – you name it, a journal can be created to fit exactly what is needed.
If you like the idea of creating a journal for yourself, friends and family, clients, or community, we can help. Journals are not just a simple book with blank pages – you’ve got a lot of choices that will allow you to unleash your creativity and create something truly unique and relevant for your audience.
Covers can be printed, faux/vegan leather, or linen with foil stamp designs
Journals can be any size, and with any number of pages
Inside pages can be blank, lined, include instructions, writing prompts, designs, images, or a mixture of everything
We can include extras such as elastic straps, ribbon markers or bookmarks
Here you can see some examples of journals Vervante customers have created. The top example is our "Starry Night Journal," a 200-page hardcover journal with foil stamped illustrations on the cover and a ribbon market. (Click HERE to see more).
We’re excited to introduce you to the world of journals and hope this inspires you. If you have questions or would like to talk about creating your own journal, we’re here to help. Just email us at [email protected] or schedule a call to discuss and we’ll help you get started.
Here's to making a big statement - starting with a blank page.
We've heard the question a lot recently: "Can COVID-19 / coronavirus be spread through books and the mail?"
The short answer according to experts is: It's very unlikely."
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the US Surgeon General have indicated that incoming mail is unlikely to carry coronavirus that causes Covid-19. According to the CDC: "...in general, because of poor survivability of these coronaviruses on surfaces, there is likely very low risk of spread from products or packaging that are shipped over a period of days or weeks at ambient temperatures.")
One question we hear a lot from our authors is about copyrights. We’ve written several articles about copyrighting books, fair use and permissions, and other legal matters when it comes to publishing, but we thought it would be helpful to talk about the copyright page in your book.
The copyright page is found at the front of the book, usually right after the title page. The format can be varied as there is no single accepted template for copyright pages. Just do a quick Google for copyright page samples and you’ll see. Generally, they will contain things like: copyright notice, ISBN, publisher information, contact information, rights and permissions, country book is printed in, author website, credits and disclaimers. Let’s review a few of these in more detail.
Copyright notice
This is one absolute requirement of a copyright page. The copyright notice includes:
ISBN
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a 13-digit number used worldwide by the publishing industry and retailers to identify your book. If you plan to sell your book in stores or online, you must have an ISBN.
(You can buy your own at bowker.com or purchase one at a low cost from Vervante. If you purchase your ISBN through Vervante, you are the sole owner of that number and Vervante retains no rights to it.)
Rights and permissions
This is optional, but useful. Technically, your copyright serves to let people know that this is your protected work, however it can help with “fair use” issues to state limitations of how people can use your book’s content. A very simple statement can be: “All rights reserved.”
But a lot of people choose to include copy similar to this: “All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, contact (NAME / EMAIL /ADDRESS / ETC).
Disclaimer
Whether you are writing fiction or nonfiction, disclaimers are often included by authors on advice from their agents, publishers or lawyers as a way to add a layer of protection if the book’s characters resemble real-life people or situations, or if someone says the book’s content damaged their business, relationship, etc.
For fiction, you could write something like this: “This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.”
For a nonfiction advice, how-to or educational book, you could write something like this: “Although the author and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was correct at press time, the author and publisher do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause.”
For books that provide health, wellness, medical, fitness or similar content: “This book is not intended as a substitute for the medical advice of physicians. The reader should regularly consult a physician in matters relating to his/her health and particularly with respect to any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention.”
[[For the record: We are not lawyers and we are not offering legal advice here — any legal concerns and specific language should be directed to a copyright attorney.]]
More information
Other information we often see on copyright pages includes:
Author website and contact information
Name of publisher and publisher address
Country in which the book was printed
Credits for things like photos, design, illustrations, graphics, editing, etc.
If you have any questions about your book copyright page or any other step of the process – from editing to design to printing, production and sales, we’re here to help. Just send us an email at [email protected]. We’re here for you!
Sometimes the most powerful tool you can give someone is a blank page. A space where they can write down their thoughts, inspirations, feelings, and ideas. A place to record their wins, analyze their losses, and work toward the goals they want to achieve in life.
Covers can be printed, faux/vegan leather, or linen with foil stamp designs
The short answer according to experts is: It's very unlikely."
One question we hear a lot from our authors is about copyrights. We’ve written several articles about