Formatting Guides

Open any professionally published paperback and flip through it slowly. You will notice something your eyes accept without comment: every

If you have two, three, or ten books in a series, a box set is the most profitable way to

Coloring books are the quiet giants of self-publishing: simple to create and cheap to print. But formatting one for Amazon

Most self-publishing advice treats Microsoft Word like a dirty secret — something to apologize for before mentioning the “real” tools.

Open any well-regarded nonfiction book and you will find two things near the back: a bibliography and an index. The

Nothing dates a self-published book faster than sloppy notes. If your nonfiction title leans on research, citations, or scholarly asides,

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 —