Need Guidance on Formatting a book

I am formatting a book in Writer, using the J. H. Weber book. I’m getting stuck and believe it is because I don’t understand what I’m doing well enough. Is there any other source of advice on formatting?

I would recommend Bruce Byfield’s Designing with LibreOffice, free to download: http://designingwithlibreoffice.com

Thank you so much! I downloaded the .pdf file and printed and read Chapter 2. It was just what i needed.