Have you been trying to format your novel and struggling to figure out why there is a gap of space at the bottom of some pages where there should be text? I struggled with this when I formatted my first book in my Ember Files series. It was maddening trying to figure out why some… Continue reading Orphan & Widow Task
I learned a lot about Word while formatting my first self-published novel. One of those things involved paragraphs and how they look on the pages of a print novel. This is important so pages don’t look like they have a narrow column of text in the middle of the page; the margins around the text… Continue reading Double-sided page layout
The fancy first letter that differs from the rest of the text in a book has always been something I admire while reading a novel. I knew little about it, including what it was called or how it was done. When I started making formatting decisions for The Funny Side, I wanted to use that… Continue reading The drop cap.
Brewing Coffee, Twisting Words & Breaking Pencils 