SquarePeg Books

Category: Writing

  • 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…

  • Book Pricing

    As I fiddle along getting things formatted and set up, I catch myself frowning at the last few bits. I’m getting a handle on Scribus and Gimp–I still have days where I have to watch and rewatch and pause and take notes and read through 4 articles to step my…

  • Writing with a TBI

    It’s hard. That’s the nicest way to put it. A more accurate way is that: it’s exhausting–you don’t realize how much brain power you used before, but you are very aware of your limitations as you run head first into the wall of crushing fatigue as it slams into you…

  • 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…