need to have copyright information. Generally speaking this is also located on a left-hand page immediately prior to the Title Page. It consists of your name and the copyright symbol, with the year the book was published. (Have a look at a few books and you will see what I mean). This is your protection against having your work stolen or reproduced without your permission. If you make the sort of statement that most books carry with this regard, you could, technically, sue anyone who infringed your copyright. You don't have to pay anyone to have copyright on a book, so don't believe anyone who tells you that this is the case and who tries to charge you for it. The fact that you print this information in the book represents its own proof that the material is yours. Setting the Manuscript Setting the manuscript means getting it into an electronic state at which it can be printed. The word comes from 'type setting' which refers to the days before computers, when lead letters were placed in racks manually in order to create the 'plates' from which a book was printed, but there is much more to setting than words. Setting these days almost always employs a computer program, known as a 'desk top publishing package'. There are many different types on the market, such as Quark Express and 'Pagemaker'. Generally speaking, anyone who knows how to manage a word processing program such as 'Word' can come to understand desk