Writers love prologues. Editors? We tend to squint at them first. Not because prologues are bad, but because most of them are doing work chapter one should’ve handled. A real prologue has one job: it changes how the reader experiences what comes next.
When authors hear the word formatting, many assume it’s a cosmetic step—something you do at the very end to make a book look polished. Fonts get chosen, margins are adjusted, and everything is made to “fit.” But professional book formatting isn’t about decoration. It’s about structure, function, and production readiness. And misunderstanding that difference is…
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