Start a new book

Let’s name your book.

Two things to start — your title and your name, plus your genre if you know it. Next you’ll bring your manuscript or your cover art, and everything else follows from there.

Book title

Used for the spine and cover text, your project name, and later tools like the interior formatter, mockups, and Amazon A+ creative.

Author name

Goes on the cover and spine, and keeps every asset you create tied to the right book.

Genre

Optional, and changeable later. It lets us point you at the cover conventions readers expect for your kind of book, and suggest a page size below — you can leave it as “Not sure yet”.

Page size

The finished size of the printed page — it sets the shape of your cover and how the text sits inside. Pick your genre above and we’ll start you at the size books like yours usually use.

Saved in this browser only — nothing is uploaded, and there’s nothing to pay until you export a finished file without the preview watermark.

What happens next

We create your book and take you to its own page, where every job lives in one place. From there you’ll:

Bring your manuscript — a .docx from Word, Pages, or Google Docs. We read the chapters and tell you exactly what came across before anything is formatted.
Or bring your cover art — if the writing isn’t finished, start with the artwork instead. You don’t need either one to begin: your front matter needs nothing but the title and author above.
Format the interior — this is what produces your real page count, and the page count is what decides the spine width. Doing it first means the cover is right the first time.
Build the cover — printer, binding, blurb, barcode, logo, and colors, all editable live against a spine measured from your actual book.

Everything after that — Mockups, launch videos, A+ Content, and ARC copies — reads from the same book, so nothing is ever entered twice. You can work in any order; the book page just tells you what each job is waiting on.