How To Get Your Fundraising Cookbook Ready To Print

So you’ve collected your recipes, entered them in the cookbook, written your introduction and made all of you are design selections. Now you’re ready to print your cookbook.

Lock Your Cookbook

The first step in getting ready to publish a fundraising cookbook is to go to the publishing center in your editors account and lock your cookbook. There are three levels of luck in your cookbook:

• Level one locks contributors for making changes. Once you start editing, you don’t want people adding new recipes or changing things that you’ve already edited. Checking this box prevents this.
• Level two stops all changes by contributors.
• Level three locks the cookbook completely and now you’re ready to submit to print.

Once you locked your cookbook from contributor changes now is the time to read everything and check for typos

Proofread your introduction

Print out your narrative and give it to someone else to read. Often it is difficult to proofread your own work and allowing someone else to do it will find things that you would mess.

Review all of the recipes

Look for ingredients that are listed but not included in the directions or ingredients in the indirect and directions that are not included in the ingredients list and make sure the directions seem complete.

This is something your committee members can help with. Assign one or two people to each category so no one is overwhelmed and you have more than one set of eyes on each recipe.

Check the layout

Go to the box that says preview your cookbook in the black navigation bar in your editors account. Here you can either download a PDF of your cookbook or use our 3-D preview tool.

Here you are checking for how pages break. If you find a page with only a word or two, maybe you can shorten version directions to make that recipe just a little shorter. You can also select a custom layout for that page and make the text one point smaller (no one should be able to see the difference!)

The changes you make here will determine how your cookbook will be printed. However it looks in your final PDF preview, is how it will look when your cookbook is printed.

Place your order

Now that your cookbook looks exactly the way you want it, it’s time to order.

On the ordering page you’ll see the number of recipes you’ve entered, and the number of pages in your cookbook. This is what will determine the cost of your cookbook along with the number of color photos.

Remember that the more copies of your cookbook you are order, the less the price per book will be. This is because the set up charges are spread out over more copies of the cookbook.

Once you’ve calculated your price, you need to enter your shipping address and click submit. This places your order with our publishing system. You then will be directed to a link that will allow you to pay online or you can send a check drawn on a US bank for payment.

If you are using our Sales Hub Website, this step is not needed. Once your campaign is over, we will print the number of cookbooks needed to fulfill all of your orders. Make sure to order extra copies for key people and for gifts down the road.

Once you’ve placed your order you can expect your cookbooks to arrive in 2 to 3 weeks. However during our busiest times of the year, it could take longer. if you want your cookbooks in time for Christmas, the deadline for ordering is November 30, however do not wait until the last minute if you can.

Bill Rice is the Co-Publisher of Family Cookbook Project and CookbookFundraiser.com which helps individuals, churches, schools, teams and other fundraising groups create cherished personalized cookbooks using peer-to-peer tools and the power of the Internet to meet group funding needs. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest!