I received the proof copy of my first book in the mail yesterday. It was pretty exciting to see something I'd written in a bound paperback book form. I had expected my review of the proof to be mainly looking for typos and checking the formatting. I had hoped I might not even need to order another proof. However, once I started looking at it, I realized it's going to need some major fixes.

First, when I set up the header, I hadn't noticed that I had dropped the text quite so far. There's a...