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Who are you dedicating your book to? Keep it short and simple.Ĥ. If readers bought the book a while ago and can’t remember what it’s about, this summary will remind them.ģ. I think of this as the jacket copy, which isn’t available on ebooks. I’ve added a page with a short summary of the book. Covers are uploaded separately on the distributor’s web site.Ģ. Note: put a page break between each section (or cluster of sections), so the pages don’t run together.ġ. It’s also where you can link for readers to leave a review on Goodreads and the book distributor’s web site (such as Amazon).Īuthors have their own preferences for front and back matter. It’s where you can add valuable information for readers to click through, such as a newsletter sign up or social media links. Insert>Page Break.įront and back matter are the text before and after the story.

Page break after each chapter, so they don’t run together.

Scene breaks can be noted with simple symbols, such as ***.

Remove indent at the beginning of each chapter, and at the beginning of each paragraph after a scene break.

Left justified-for ebooks, the left side of the text should be justified.

Auto Indents-indented paragraphs should be set up automatically, either using Page Layout or the ruler bar at the top of the page.

In Word, they’re identified by -Page Break.

In Apple Pages, page breaks are a long blue line with a bent page on the right (more about page breaks later).

Only one space dot should be between words and at the end of a sentence (not two, as we were taught in the old days). In Apple Pages, the space dots are blue and show up between each word. Paragraph symbols should only be seen between paragraphs of your text.

The paragraph symbol looks like a backward P - like this ¶.

Show Invisibles-in Apple Pages, which is what I use, it’s under View>Show Invisibles.

This way any changes you make will not alter the original document.

Once your manuscript has been edited and it’s ready for formatting, do a File>Save As.

Instead, embrace the control you’re gaining by learning how to format your own books. She’d thought it was some mysterious task that only tech experts did in their basements.Įven non-technie carpool moms can do it-I’m living proof. My writer friend had no idea that formatting was something she’d already been doing as a writer and editor. Why am I writing a detailed post about formatting? Because there are so many parts to formatting that you already know without realizing it.

If you’re trying to decide whether to format your own books or hire a freelancer, check out Understanding Your Ebook Formatting Options on this site by Marcy Kennedy. But now that I have two books out in the universe, I’ve come to realize that formatting is really simple. Of all the indie tasks, she was most overwhelmed by the dreaded F-Word. I was having lunch with a writer friend who plans to self publish a series. By Julie Musil, of the Indie Author Series