Tag: formatting

• Writer, is Formatting Your Manuscript a Headache?

  How it looks and how it works do matter! In my time as a book formatter, I’ve also learned that there are a wide variety of ways to incorrectly format a manuscript. The problems start back at the very beginning, and that’s why I think it’s important for us authors to learn how to format…

  Rachael Ritchey

  September 18, 2019

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• How to Not Get Overwhelmed: E-Book Formatting

  At the start of this series I explained that indie publishing can feel overwhelming, and the fear of the unknown can be debilitating. What we hope to accomplish with this series is to eliminate that fear by doing the one thing that will make publishing on your own palatable: Break the process down into manageable…

  Rachael Ritchey

  February 20, 2017

  Hey Indie! How Not to Get Overwhelmed

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• How to Not Get Overwhelmed with Indie Publishing: Make Your Big Goal Manageable

  When we last discussed How to Not Get Overwhelmed with Indie Publishing we worked on setting a publishing goal, and today we’ll talk about the breakdown; we’ll get an idea of the separate parts which are easier to tackle. If you’ve decided to publish for more than yourself or a select few of your family members, then…

  Rachael Ritchey

  April 28, 2016

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• Texting Conversations in Writing: What’s the best format?

  I was reading a great post on Dan Alatorre’s blog today, “3 Ways to Show a Text Conversation” (that’s no longer available). It was talking about how to write text messaging in our manuscripts. He presented several ways of accomplishing it, but after some research and feedback he felt only one was a truly worthwhile way.…

  Rachael Ritchey

  February 29, 2016

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• Indie Publisher! A Process

  Self-publishing is quite the endeavor! There are so many subtleties you’d never except to encounter when first starting out. I remember thinking something like, Okay, I can do this. I write a book, upload that bad boy onto Amazon, and hope it gets noticed! It can’t be that hard to get it in stores, too.…

  Rachael Ritchey

  March 3, 2015

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