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. Then write here, bring a Word file, or start with the cover. Everything else follows from there.

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

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

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”.

It sets how your manuscript is read and where the settings start: poems keep every line as you wrote it, and nonfiction keeps its tables, figures and reference lists. You can change it later in the formatter.

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.

Each printer measures a book’s spine a little differently, so we size your cover for yours. Not sure? Amazon KDP is where most authors start, and you can change it later.

How do you want to start?

You can change your mind later. Your book page has every job, whichever you pick.

Saved in this browser only. Your Word file is read here and is not uploaded. There’s nothing to pay until you export a finished file without the preview watermark.