Formatting Guides

Steampunk lives in the brass-and-steam details, and nowhere does that matter more than inside the book itself. When you format

A gothic novel lives or dies on atmosphere, and a surprising share of that atmosphere is built not by sentences

If you write dystopian fiction, you already know the genre lives or dies on atmosphere: a cracked skyline, a regime’s

If you are about to self-publish a detective novel, your most important decision is whether your formatting works with your

Every thriller lives or dies on pace — and pace is not only a writing problem, it is a formatting

Literary fiction asks more of a reader than any other kind of novel — slower pacing, longer sentences, ideas that

Urban fantasy lives where the real world and the magical one share a street. When you format an urban fantasy

Cozy mysteries are one of the most reliable genres in self-publishing in 2026: amateur sleuths in small towns — bakers,

Formatting a western novel is a balancing act: you want the dusty, frontier-era atmosphere readers expect, without letting decorative flourishes

If you have written a novel for readers aged 8 to 12, you have written a middle grade book —