And Wil Wheaton went the sanest possible route with his Sunken Treasure and Memories of the Future, and just found someone crazy to do all the layout. (C’mon, it’s Wil — I shouldn’t have to tell you to buy his books, you should already have them.)

Ariana Osborne — she of Warren Ellis’ website, web forum, and various books — writes about how to design or do layout for books to be published through Lulu. She has just done the book design on Warren Ellis’s first POD project, Shivering Sands, after all. Her advice is good, especially where it amounts to telling you to stop fretting and just make your thing.

I am the “someone crazy” who did Wil Wheaton’s layout on those two books, however, and I used InDesign to do it, so perhaps I’m ill-fit to be giving advice on not using InDesign. Hold fast, though, because I’m going to do it: You don’t need InDesign to publish your book. Get excited and make things.