Interior Layout & Design

Full service typesetting, layout, and interior formatting for print books

Complete layout and design of your book's interior pages, implementing all typesetting and formatting considerations including book size, headers, fonts, charts, tables, photographs, illustrations, and sidebars. Also includes file formatting and conversion for preparing a manuscript for direct publication with companies like CreateSpace, Lightning Souce, and LuLu.

It's our goal to help you produce books of the same quality you'd find with a traditional publisher. This includes adhering to the highest industry standards of artistic and technical execution, with personal attention to how they affect and are affected by the story. We're never interested in producing work that is simply "good enough" or stamped out of a mold: we want your book to stand out from the crowd.

The costs below are the typical base price for a single novel and are for reference only. We will evaluate each manuscript separately and give a personalized quote containing any additional costs, if applicable.

Overview

This full design service delivers final camera-ready formatting of your entire book interior, including:

Front Matter (half-title page, title page, copyright page, table of contents, and, if applicable, dedication, acknowledgements, preface, prologue, and/or introduction)
Body Text, incorporating your desired fonts, columns, images, tables, etc.
Up to five images (such as a map, author photo, chapter headings, imprint logo, etc.)
End Matter, as provided by author (epilogue, conclusion, afterword, end notes, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index*)

* Index generation is available as a separately billed service.

Design Samples

A broader portfolio of full-size book interiors we have designed for our clients is available here, and below you'll find a few samples to demonstrate just a few approaches to typography and interior design.

Page design for a hard-boiled action thriller

Page design for a highly personal memoir

Page design for a mainstream novel

What To Expect

Each Book Layout and Design package includes:

A session of initial phone consultation (up to 30 minutes) with the designer to help you decide on the best look, size, and layout for your book
“Self-Publishing 101” consultation with our publishing consultant, so you know what to expect from the process
Generation one of the formatted book interior in PDF for your review and suggested changes
E-mail consultation with designer to discuss proposed changes as needed
Generation two of the book interior, reflecting your feedback given on Generation one
Final output to PDF and to one publisher-specific format of your choice

Please note that this is not an editing service and no editing changes will be made to the text with Book Design and Layout. Your designer may, however, notify you if typos or grammatical errors exist in the final text and recommend further proofreading.

Pricing

Our prices for interior design and layout begin at $700, but all costs are determined by the amount of work involved and may depend on the length of the manuscript, the complexity of the layout, the number of images, and if text changes are likely to be required after layout is completed. In all cases we will provide you with a personalized, no-obligation quote containing any applicable additional costs.

Please note: Prices given here are based on an assumed word count of up to 100,000 words. Book designs for works that significantly exceed that word count may be charged an additional fee of up to $.016 per word.

All our Book Design & Layout Services include the following:

Initial half-hour consultation with your designer
“Self-Publishing 101” consultation with our publishing consultant, so you know what to expect from the process
Mock-up of initial pages (front matter and one chapter)
Complete book layout for your review and approval, followed by one round of formatting and layout changes, including up to 30 text changes/corrections*
Final output in PDF to 1 printer of your choice and RTF file for optional e-book conversion

*Additional text and formatting changes, if required, are available and billed hourly at the discounted rate of $60 per hour until the project is completed. Once the project is completed, further changes may be made at a minimum charge of $100.

For authors with graphics and more advanced design concepts, or authors wanting more hands-on help, the following services are also available: