Having formatted a number of books (and published a number more), we've seen a lot of book formatting issues along the way. Sometimes, it's a simple derp error on our part, other times it's a bit more complex. Many times,...
Month: January 2018
Formatting Tips
Formatting with Scrivener 3.0
Murphy's Law says that when we went live with our Scrivener blog series, the folks over at Literature and Latte would release 3.0. And they did! But we're ga-ga over the changes, so we're not complaining too much. Today we'd like...
Formatting Tips
Formatting Books with Vellum
Many authors find themselves ready to format books, and then cross-eyed. If our blog series on Scrivener and Word doesn't help, you might try a more all-in-one solution, one that will help with version control and pretty-pretties. That solution might be...
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How to Format a Book in Word (Simply)
Book formatting is probably the easiest part of the self-publishing process. Even still, for those who haven't used Microsoft Word's formatting features, it can be daunting to figure out how it all works. We've listed the top few tricks for...
Formatting Tips
Top 5 Things to Know When Working with a Formatter
We here at SGR-Pub have formatted a slew of manuscripts (both for our releases and for other publishers). And we also tend to see the same misunderstanding of what a formatter does, and how authors should work with them. If...