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The Indie Author’s Guide to Formatting Your Paperback

A complete handbook: from manuscript to PDF


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Paperback

£5.99

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ISBN 9781900929165, 102pp, 198 x 128mm
Note: the paperback includes additional typographic features that aren’t available in ebook format.)


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ISBN 9781900929158

 

A guide for independent authors who want their self-published typography to look like commercially published typography. This guide helps you avoid the many pitfalls so often experienced by indie authors. It helps you choose your holy trinity of font, text size, and line height; to know how and when to adjust the spaces between your words and letters (and when to leave them alone); and why we don’t use double spaces after full stops or default tabs for first-line indents.

You’ll learn the difference between widows and orphans, smart quotes and dumb quotes, and dashes of all kinds. There’s even some guidance on image sizing and resolution to help with your cover. (Note: this is not a book about cover design!) All this, plus many more tips and tools to turn the indie author into an indie typographer. Also includes a glossary of typesetting / printing terms, a list of further reading, and a full index.

Praise for The Indie Author’s Guide
“Makes a complex subject much easier to understand”
“Explains clearly and simply a whole host of details”
“Fonts, symbols, spacing, and everything that makes up a clear, readable layout”
“Very useful!”


Outwitted! The Teenage Years

Life with the Comeback Kids, Volume II


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ISBN 9781900929141, 108pp, 80 B&W illus., 198 x 128mm
Note: a share of profits from Outwitted! Vols I & II is donated to the women’s refuge charity Safe in Sussex

 

After Outwitted! The Early Years originally came out in 2019, the kids really got the bit between their collective teeth, convinced they now had a free rein to demolish their mother at every opportunity. (As though they didn’t believe that already.) Being much smarter and more talkative than they were previously, they have enthusiastically provided more than enough material for Volume II; the kind of wisecracks that have now earned them the title The Comeback Kids. Their mother has fought back valiantly, but who has triumphed? You can be the judge of that.

The kids are back, and the burns are more brutal than ever!
—C. L. Taylor

This time there are hormones!
—Anthony Steven

Praise for Outwitted! The Teenage Years
“A second glorious volume”
“Laughs on every page”
“Hilarious and heartwarming”
“Vivid, real, and bursting with life”
“Buy it. Read it. It’s brilliant!”


Outwitted! The Early Years

Life with the Comeback Kids, Volume I


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ISBN 9781900929134, 100pp, 82 B&W illus., 198 x 128mm
Note: a share of profits from Outwitted! Vols I & II is donated to the women’s refuge charity Safe in Sussex

 

Outwitted! The Early Years charts the last ten years of everyday life for Leigh Forbes and her three children: the Small Boy, the Small Girl, and the Smaller Girl (one of whom is now larger than she is).

Occasionally, the children allow her to teach and guide them, and share the wisdom of her years – as is fitting for her role as a parent – but more often, they totally get one over. This book, compiled from updates originally posted to social media, is a lasting record of those roastings.

With additional offerings from her sister, her dad, the cat, and some random bloke in the cinema (amongst others), together with a range of funny, whimsical, and sometimes poignant observations on parenting in general, this collection offers an insight into one mother’s experience on the front line of family life.

 

Praise for Outwitted! The Early Years
“An absolute delight to read”
“Featuring wisecracks, sleeptalking, point-scoring and wine”
“Funny, insightful with beautiful illustrations”
“Any parent will relate to this … Fabulous little anecdotes”
“Very funny and so true, couldn’t stop laughing”
“I have driven my partner mad, laughing out loud reading this in bed”
“A highly recommended collection of smiles in print”


The Game

Escape to France with this funny, feel-good novella!


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ISBN 9781900929103, 78pp, 198 x 128mm

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ISBN 9781900929097

 

To win the game, all Cécile has to do is hold out against the seductive powers of Jean-Luc Galibru, a handsome French actor who seems to think he’s God’s gift to women.

From dinner in Paris, to a heady summer on the Loire, Jean-Luc puts on a Prix d'Or performance, and Cécile finds herself disarmed by his unfaltering kindness and affection – half wishing she could forget the man behind the act, the Don Juan who just can’t take no for an answer.

But it’s just a game. It should be easy. Cécile has never climbed into bed with any man without being in love with him first, and she’d never be fool enough to fall for a man like Jean-Luc Galibru.

 

Praise for The Game
“Engaging and utterly readable.”
“Great characters; lovely touches of humour.”
“Keeps you turning the pages.”
“Will she, won’t she… what a satisfying ending.”
“Awakened the long buried ache of ‘perhaps love’.”