Formatting Guides

Your prologue is the first thing an agent, editor, or reader actually reads — and formatting it wrong marks your

An epigraph is the quietest page in your book — a short quotation set apart from everything else, sitting on

The dedication page is one of the smallest pages in your entire book — often just a single line —

If you are formatting a book for publication, the copyright page is the least-read page you will ever typeset —

You have exported your manuscript as an EPUB and it opens perfectly in your e-reader — so it must be

Most books are set in 10 to 12-point type, which works for average eyesight but quietly excludes millions of potential

Ask indie authors which tool formatted their book, and one name dominates: Vellum. It is the app behind the elegant

Most self-publishers obsess over covers, chapter headings, and trim sizes — then paste their acknowledgments in as an afterthought: centered,

A photograph that looks perfect in your Word manuscript can turn into a blurry smudge or a broken grey box

Open almost any traditionally published nonfiction book and you will find a small parade of short pieces before the real