12 Formatting Tips for Indie Authors

• Is your book ready to be self-published? 
• Wait to format text until editing is done 
• Formatting main text for your book 
• How to determine your book’s trim size 
• How to determine your book’s margins 
• Select best typeface for your book
• How your text should appear in a formatted book 
• How to handle page numbers, running headers
• How to line up page numbers in table of contents
• Avoid introducing wrong styles into your text
• Use consistent quotation mark, apostrophe style 
• Don’t commit these five book design sins