Formatting
5 posts on formatting, newest first.
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Formatting What Is a Dinkus? Scene Breaks in a Printed Novel What a dinkus is, the other marks novels use for a scene break, and why a blank line on its own goes wrong at the bottom of a printed page. -
Formatting Running Heads and Folios: The Top and Bottom of a Book Page What goes in the running head of a novel, where the page numbers sit, and the pages that should carry neither. -
Formatting Book Margins and the Gutter: The Numbers for KDP KDP's minimum margins by page count, why the inside margin (the gutter) has to grow as a book gets thicker, and what margins a novel should actually use. -
Formatting How to Choose a Trim Size for Your Novel What trim size means, the standard sizes for fiction (5×8, 5.5×8.5, 6×9 and the UK B-format), and how to pick the one that suits your genre and page count. -
Formatting Front Matter and Back Matter: The Right Order for a Novel Every page that comes before and after your story (half-title, title, copyright, dedication, acknowledgements) in the order printers and readers expect.