An interior that looks
professionally typeset.
Clean typography. Proper margins. Chapter headers that make readers feel like they're holding a real book — not a Word document with a nice cover on it.
Free tier. No credit card. Format your first book today.
What formatting costs elsewhere.
Vellum is the gold standard — and $250, Mac-only. Atticus is $147 and still feels like a beta. Or you wrestle Word templates at 2 AM, and the page numbers are still wrong. A bad interior makes a good book feel cheap.
Vellum (Mac only)
Atticus
Manual in Word
Import your manuscript. Export a book that looks professionally typeset.
EPUB + PDF export
One project, two outputs. EPUB for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo. Print-ready PDF for paperback and hardcover.
Print-ready interior
300 DPI with proper bleed, trim marks, and embedded fonts. Upload directly to KDP or IngramSpark.
Professional chapter styles
Drop caps, ornamental breaks, custom headers. Looks like a Big Five publisher did it — pick a style and go.
Trim size presets
5×8, 5.5×8.5, 6×9, and more. Pick your size — margins, gutters, and headers auto-adjust.
Auto margins & gutters
Gutter width calculated from your page count. Inner margins widen for thicker books. No more margin tables.
Table of contents
Auto-generated from your headings. Clickable in EPUB, properly paginated in PDF, always up to date.
The details readers feel but can't name.
Typography, spacing, and structure that separate self-published from professionally published.
Front + back matter
Title page, copyright, dedication, acknowledgments, about the author — templates for all of it.
Scene breaks + ornaments
Asterisks, ornamental flourishes, blank-line breaks. Pick a style that matches your genre.
Widow + orphan control
No single lines stranded at the top or bottom of a page. Automatic — the way real typesetters do it.
Authors who stopped fighting Word.
Vellum is $250 and Mac-only. I'm on Windows. This gave me the same quality output for my entire 6-book series.
I used to spend a full weekend formatting each book. Now it takes 20 minutes. The chapter styles alone saved me hours.
My formatter charged $150 per book. I publish 4 a year. This paid for itself before I finished my first export.
The gutter calculations are automatic. I never have to Google “what margin for 300 pages” again.
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