Format It Yourself! The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide for Authors.
A Master-Class with over 60 Screenshots by Jo Roderick

Format It Yourself!:

The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide for Authors.

A Master-Class with over 60 Screenshots.

Have you just finished penning your novel? Do you need help with:

Publishing☑

Formatting☑

Typesetting☑

and Print Layout?☑

Description

Format It Yourself! is a Step-by-Step guide, specifically written and illustrated to help authors format their books. Whether you are publishing through CreateSpace, Kindle, or any other outlet, one of the greatest challenges is preparing and typesetting the book. This formatting manual is an in-depth typesetting Master-Class with over 60 Screenshots for guidance.

This logical, sequentially presented handbook teaches readers exactly how to typeset according to traditional convention. Speed up your normal workflow, and reduce frustration. The information will lead you to a quicker and smarter way of writing. Would you like to spend less time wrestling with formatting gremlins, and more on penning your next novel?

This book doesn’t promise the impossible. It delivers on what can be done by the reader. You cannot typeset your book in sixty minutes, or in an afternoon — if you want to do it properly. Learn all the tips and secrets straight from a professional. Let me walk you through the right way to Format It Yourself!

Let’s face it; if you knew how to code a proper e-Book, you wouldn’t need a formatting ‘bible’. Discover how to implement simple tweaks in your electronic book’s HTML code. Familiarise yourself with the most common and frustrating formatting errors, and how best to avoid them. I will warn you about which elements will fail to convert properly. I find these same issues with many of my clients’ manuscripts.

While Format It Yourself! focuses on Microsoft Word, the theory and solutions can be applied to any word processing software. Numerous links to free software and useful websites will assist you in finalising your book.

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Jo writes in a way that is easy to understand and humorous at times. The way he leads you deeper into the workings of MS Word is very well done and before you know it you are doing things you had never even heard of before. If you think you are a bit of a wizard with Word, then I advise you to read this and meet Merlin. Once you have grasped the concept of how Word works, Jo shows you how to use that knowledge to format your book for both epublication and print to give a professional finish to your work. If you self publish you really should not be without this. I will be buying a print copy to sit alongside some of my other reference books.

I think this book would be an absolute boon to a new author starting out, especially one not already knee deep in bad habits. This book could and should be used almost as a “style bible” for new authors. For those of us a bit longer in the tooth, there is still much to be gained from this wonderful book. I have already begun to put some of the basic principles into practice in my work and it is already resulting in time-saving in my writing (which really is what it is all about). I envisage referring to this book often, especially when I am preparing manuscripts for publishing.