Book Formatting & Publishing

Print Book Formatting Checklist: Everything to Verify Before You Hit Upload (So You Don’t Hit Your Head on the Desk) I maintain a formatting checklist because I have trust issues — specifically, I don’t trust myself to remember whether I set the gutter to 0.75″ or 0.375″ at 3 AM on a Tuesday. Print book […]

Ebook Formatting Mistakes That Hurt Sales: The Silent Revenue Killers Most Authors Never Notice Here’s the thing about ebook formatting mistakes: they don’t announce themselves. Your book doesn’t come with a popup that says “hey, your paragraph spacing is inconsistent on Kindle Paperwhite and three readers have already returned it.” You just see the reviews […]

How to Format a Book for Kindle: The Guide I Wish Existed When I Was Swearing at My Preview File Let me paint you a picture. You’ve written a book. Months — maybe years — of work. You export it, upload it to KDP, hit the preview button, and your beautifully crafted manuscript looks like […]

Best Book Formatting Software for Authors: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Wasted a Weekend in Word I’m going to save you the experience I had in 2023, which involved a 72,000-word manuscript, Microsoft Word, and the slowly dawning realization that I was trying to perform surgery with a butter knife. Word […]