Tag: self-publishing

  • 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…

  • 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 way through a thing, but…

  • 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…