--- title: "Publishing — the Galley blog" description: "Every post on publishing: Standard Manuscript Format, and What Agents Actually Check; Writing Software for Novelists Who Don't Write in English; Accessible Ebooks and the European Accessibility Act." source: https://usegalley.com/blog/tag/publishing --- [Blog](https://usegalley.com/blog) · Publishing # Publishing 8 posts on publishing, newest first. [All posts](https://usegalley.com/blog) [Galley](https://usegalley.com/blog/tag/galley)[Craft](https://usegalley.com/blog/tag/craft)[Design](https://usegalley.com/blog/tag/design)[Formatting](https://usegalley.com/blog/tag/formatting)[Guides](https://usegalley.com/blog/tag/guides) ![A double-spaced manuscript page with a running header and a hash scene break](https://usegalley.com/images/blog/standard-manuscript-format.png) Publishing ## Standard Manuscript Format, and What Agents Actually Check The Shunn manuscript format specification in plain terms: font, spacing, margins, indents, scene breaks, the running header, and the word count that should be rounded. September 10, 2026 https://usegalley.com/blog/standard-manuscript-format ![A translation glyph over a dark field, with the Galley wordmark](https://usegalley.com/images/blog/write-a-novel-in-your-language.png) Design ## Writing Software for Novelists Who Don't Write in English How to write and typeset a book in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew, Hindi, Bengali, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Greek or Vietnamese, which typeface each script gets, and what still needs building. September 2, 2026 https://usegalley.com/blog/write-a-novel-in-your-language ![An ebook listing showing accessibility metadata beside the book description](https://usegalley.com/images/blog/accessible-ebooks-and-the-eaa.png) Publishing ## Accessible Ebooks and the European Accessibility Act What the EAA means for a self-published novel sold in the EU: accessibility metadata, what makes an EPUB accessible, the microenterprise exemption, and the large-print edition nobody makes. August 30, 2026 https://usegalley.com/blog/accessible-ebooks-and-the-eaa ![A print interior PDF and an EPUB exported from the same manuscript](https://usegalley.com/images/blog/galley-for-self-publishing.png) Publishing ## Galley for Self-Publishing What self-publishing a novel in Galley involves: a print-ready interior PDF, a valid EPUB, a tuned file per store, and two checks that run before you upload to KDP. August 15, 2026 https://usegalley.com/blog/galley-for-self-publishing ![A double-spaced manuscript page in standard manuscript format](https://usegalley.com/images/blog/galley-for-traditional-publishing.png) Publishing ## Galley for Traditional Publishing Querying agents or working with an editor: standard manuscript format, the submission package, watermarked beta drafts, and getting an editor's Word comments back where they belong. August 10, 2026 https://usegalley.com/blog/galley-for-traditional-publishing ![A print PDF page beside the same text reflowing on an e-reader](https://usegalley.com/images/blog/epub-vs-print-pdf.png) Publishing ## EPUB, Print PDF, or Both? The Files You Actually Need to Self-Publish What each publishing file is for (print-interior PDF, EPUB, DOCX) and which ones you need for Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Apple Books, and Kobo. June 18, 2026 https://usegalley.com/blog/epub-vs-print-pdf ![A paperback interior page annotated with margin, gutter, and bleed](https://usegalley.com/images/blog/format-a-paperback-for-kdp.png) Publishing ## How to Format a Paperback for KDP (Margins, Gutter, and Bleed) A plain-language walkthrough of the print-interior settings Amazon KDP checks (trim size, margins, gutter, bleed, and page count) so your paperback passes on the first upload. June 6, 2026 https://usegalley.com/blog/format-a-paperback-for-kdp ![A book barcode and ISBN on the back cover of a paperback](https://usegalley.com/images/blog/do-you-need-an-isbn.png) Publishing ## Do You Need an ISBN to Self-Publish? When you need an ISBN, when you don't, the difference between KDP's free ISBN and your own, and why the imprint on the barcode matters more than the cost. May 25, 2026 https://usegalley.com/blog/do-you-need-an-isbn