SquarePeg Books

Category: self-publish

  • 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…

  • I Only Wanted to WRITE!

    But then I researched the gatekeepers, and the rights abuses, and sheer improbabilities of getting picked up by a credible publisher. After I hid under my bed for several days with a few choice stuffies, I started researching other ways that I could release my creative genius upon the world through self-publishing. Which was quite…

  • IWSG December 2024

    The last insecure writers’ blog hop of the year. Some folks are writing about cliffhangers in their work and how they feel about them at the end of a book. Right now I’m struggling to just get things set up to publish. I’m not sure what I expected after I set up my LLC and…

  • Learning More Stuff

    So. I’ve gone through videos for how to use Atticus, to generate epubs and format PDFs, and I’m already grumpy. I knew that I would have to twist and beat my manuscripts into submission to comply with industry standards, but I hadn’t realized it would be so involved. I remember, back in the late 1900’s,…

  • F#@k it.

    I’m really questioning whether more research is the right direction for me, or if I should just throw my least favorite children into the real world and take notes. Except my “children” are manuscripts. Much like a psychopath “doctor” would with his test subjects. I don’t like doing that. I like having a plan. I…