Take Your Manuscript from Rough Draft to Ready-to-Release
Beyond the Manuscript is much more than a formatting guide.
It’s a lifeline for indie authors—or even aspiring authors—who want their books to be taken seriously. Whether you’re writing your first novel or self-publishing your fifth, this no-nonsense, beginner-friendly workbook breaks down the essential steps to turn your manuscript into a clean, polished, reader-ready book.
Forget the jargon. Skip the overwhelm. This guide walks you through everything from setting up your margins and choosing a readable font, to handling images, line spacing, page numbers, headers, and clickable tables of contents. You’ll learn how to spot (and avoid) the most common mistakes that get books rejected by libraries, ignored by bookstores, or skimmed by readers.
Created especially for independent authors, Beyond the Manuscript teaches you how to format with clarity and confidence—so your story looks as good as it reads.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
• Format both print and digital editions (without getting lost in tech)
• Structure front and back matter like a pro
• Set margins, indents, and line spacing that enhance readability
• Avoid common upload disasters on platforms like Amazon and IngramSpark
• Create a clickable table of contents—no confusing headings required
• Ensure your book is ready for libraries, reviewers, and real readers
Whether you're formatting your first project or refining your process, Beyond the Manuscript is the practical, approachable companion every indie writer deserves.
Click here to order from RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, Connecticut, because we proudly support brick-and-mortar indie bookstores!
Beyond the Manuscript is much more than a formatting guide.
It’s a lifeline for indie authors—or even aspiring authors—who want their books to be taken seriously. Whether you’re writing your first novel or self-publishing your fifth, this no-nonsense, beginner-friendly workbook breaks down the essential steps to turn your manuscript into a clean, polished, reader-ready book.
Forget the jargon. Skip the overwhelm. This guide walks you through everything from setting up your margins and choosing a readable font, to handling images, line spacing, page numbers, headers, and clickable tables of contents. You’ll learn how to spot (and avoid) the most common mistakes that get books rejected by libraries, ignored by bookstores, or skimmed by readers.
Created especially for independent authors, Beyond the Manuscript teaches you how to format with clarity and confidence—so your story looks as good as it reads.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
• Format both print and digital editions (without getting lost in tech)
• Structure front and back matter like a pro
• Set margins, indents, and line spacing that enhance readability
• Avoid common upload disasters on platforms like Amazon and IngramSpark
• Create a clickable table of contents—no confusing headings required
• Ensure your book is ready for libraries, reviewers, and real readers
Whether you're formatting your first project or refining your process, Beyond the Manuscript is the practical, approachable companion every indie writer deserves.
Click here to order from RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, Connecticut, because we proudly support brick-and-mortar indie bookstores!
Dark, meticulously researched and deeply disturbing, Finding Emmaus is simultaneously experienced through the lives of two otherwise-ordinary people, living three centuries apart. They discover in adulthood that they are not mentally ill, but are in fact exceptionally gifted Empaths.
Because of that, and because of the appalling things that happen to each of them during the time they believe themselves to be ill, they embark on personal journeys—Frank in the 1600’s and Katherine in present day—actually finding a way to transcend time and death, meet each other, and then work together to save millions of others who’ve been ostracized from society and victimized because they, too, have been erroneously labeled mentally ill.
“The only thing worse than having an incomprehensible, incurable illness is having an incomprehensible, incurable illness in isolation.”
~ Francis Nettleton, 1739 ~
For more information and to purchase a copy of Finding Emmaus, please follow this link:
https://www.lodestarre.com/
Because of that, and because of the appalling things that happen to each of them during the time they believe themselves to be ill, they embark on personal journeys—Frank in the 1600’s and Katherine in present day—actually finding a way to transcend time and death, meet each other, and then work together to save millions of others who’ve been ostracized from society and victimized because they, too, have been erroneously labeled mentally ill.
“The only thing worse than having an incomprehensible, incurable illness is having an incomprehensible, incurable illness in isolation.”
~ Francis Nettleton, 1739 ~
For more information and to purchase a copy of Finding Emmaus, please follow this link:
https://www.lodestarre.com/
This award-winning documentary film features disturbing, first-hand accounts of financial exploitation from real-life victims, including Hollywood icon, the late Mickey Rooney, as well as in-depth interviews with experts who discuss such key issues as victim profiles, the perpetrators’ modus operandi, reasons for vulnerability, the far-reaching and egregious impacts of these crimes on future generations. And, most importantly, potential solutions: ways to prevent this ever-increasing, national crime spree.
Written by Pamela S. K. Glasner, this film was inspired by actual events in her family.
For additional information and to purchase the video and / or its companion workbook,
Silver and Gold, please follow this link:
https://www.lastwillandembezzlement.com/
Written by Pamela S. K. Glasner, this film was inspired by actual events in her family.
For additional information and to purchase the video and / or its companion workbook,
Silver and Gold, please follow this link:
https://www.lastwillandembezzlement.com/