SquarePeg Books

Category: self-publish

  • IWSG August 2025

    This month’s question: What is the most unethical practice in the publishing industry? I’ve gone off on the Author not being able to maintain their rights and getting hoodwinked on their rights and all that a few three times, so I won’t again. I shall now expound upon a different topic: but I’ve stared at…

  • July Progress Report

    We are now working on the art for the fantasy series. Maps, cover art bits, things like that. I’ve started editing the manuscript for the first in the fantasy series for epub and pdf. But what have we learned now that we are a PUBLISHED AUTHOR (buymybookASpecialBlwndofCrazybuymybook)? We’ve learned that when you hold a physical…

  • IWSG July 2025

    Getting an LCCN is a bit confusing. You need it to make it easier for libraries in the US to find you, but it is not a requirement. If you get an LCCN, You have to submit a hardcopy book to the Library of Congress. Which I have to do anyway for the copyright. I’m…

  • Wednesday Progress Report: June 2025

    And we are (June 30) published! A Special Blend of Crazy is will be up for sale June 30! A Mundane Affair of the Heart – the rough beginning of the series: I honestly don’t know where the hell it came from, exactly. Some would even say “Dear child; you get points for trying, but…

  • May 2025

    We are done with formatting!!!! And with figuring out a price! And with most of the bookcover for the print version. We are now struggling with the alphabet soup of ISBN, LCCN and a few other things. I’ve got a block of ISBN’s, and that part is reasonably easy, it’s just hard to wrap my…

  • IWSG March 2025 – Formatting Is No Joke

    One of the things a self-published author must do is take their manuscript after editing, and then format it according to the rules of the distributor service. Epub isn’t so bad. Mostly spacing and the use of Heading Styles. Make sure you rip out all the random bits of commands hiding in the script, so…