Ember & Ink Press eBook

Ember & Ink Press eBook Formatting & Layout Design

The client was an independent fiction author preparing their manuscript for self-publishing on Amazon KDP, targeting readers who expect a professional, traditionally published reading experience from indie titles.

They came with a raw, unformatted manuscript plain chapter headings, no typography system, inconsistent spacing, and zero visual hierarchy. It looked nothing like a published book and would have damaged their credibility on the KDP marketplace.

I owned the full formatting overhaul from bare manuscript polished, KDP-ready interior every design and layout decision was mine.

I rebuilt the entire interior from scratch introducing elegant serif chapter headers with decorative ornamental dividers, drop cap openers, properly indented and spaced body text, and a consistent typographic system throughout. The result was a clean, readable, visually compelling layout ready for both print and Kindle distribution.

Full before-and-after interior redesign, chapter header system with decorative ornaments, drop cap styling, improved paragraph spacing and text flow, consistent typography, circled page number design, KDP-ready export.

If your manuscript looks like a Word document instead of a published book I fix that. One clean delivery, print and Kindle ready.