The Book Design Essentials

The design knowledge that works with any formatting software.

Everything you need to make your book beautiful — no matter which tool you use to build it.

Maybe you already format in Atticus or Vellum. Maybe you've got the technical side handled but your pages still don't look quite right, and you can't put your finger on why. That's because software can place your text on the page, but it can't teach you design.

The Book Design Essentials bundle gives you the knowledge that sits underneath every beautifully formatted book: the typography rules, the layout principles, the genre styling, and the image know-how that separates "formatted" from designed.

Here is exactly what you get:

• Formatting Foundations: Understand why professional formatting looks the way it does, so you can make design decisions with confidence, not guesswork. Covers typography, trim sizes, ISBNs, and front matter essentials.
• The Pretty Pages Look Book: Stuck on design? Browse this gallery of Style Recipes for genres including Fantasy, Romance, and Thriller. Font pairings, layout ideas, and visual inspiration you can apply immediately in whatever software you use.
• The Book Image Prep Guide: Your technical cheat sheet for illustrations, maps, and graphics. Breaks down resolution, bleed, and greyscale into simple steps so your images never print blurry or pixelated — for both print and ebook.

BONUS RESOURCES:

• The Copyright Page Builder: Get your copyright page right first time with editable templates you can customise in seconds. (Link included in Formatting Foundations.)
• The Beautiful Body Fonts Guide: Stop guessing which fonts look professional. This curated guide gives you the industry-standard typefaces proven to be easy on the eye — and tells you exactly which default fonts to avoid. (Link included in Formatting Foundations.)

Why this bundle?

Software-independent: Atticus, Vellum, Deckle, InDesign, Word — the design principles here apply to all of them. This is the knowledge your formatting tool can't give you.

Save money: Get all three guides plus bonuses for less than buying them individually.

Your software handles the mechanics. This bundle handles the beauty.