Book Formatting

Posts in this category from Writer's Corner.

Sep 21, 2026·6 min read

Curly Quotes vs Straight Quotes: Why Your Book Looks Self-Published

Why manuscripts end up with straight quotes, how to fix them in Word, Google Docs, and Scrivener, and the apostrophe traps autocorrect gets wrong.

Sep 18, 2026·9 min read

What Is Typesetting? How Book Interiors Get Made in 2026

What a typesetter actually decides inside a book, from margins to widows and orphans, what it costs to hire one, and how formatting software now automates most of it.

Sep 16, 2026·8 min read

Title Page vs Half Title Page: What Each One Does

A half title page carries the book's title and nothing else. A title page adds the subtitle, author, and publisher. What belongs on each, which one KDP needs, and why ebooks skip the half title.

Sep 8, 2026·8 min read

Kindle Create Review: What Amazon's Free Tool Can and Can't Do

We installed Kindle Create and ran a real manuscript through it. What Amazon's free formatting tool handles well, the four limits we tested, and when to move on.