Maps that survive Kindle. Chapter ornaments that match the world. Different POV voices typeset distinctly. Glossaries and dramatis personae the reader actually reads. Epic fantasy or grimdark or cozy — we format fantasy with the seriousness it deserves.
Drop your manuscript and we run the same 30+ checks Amazon does, line by line, in under a minute. You get a clear /100 score, every failure point flagged, and the exact fix for each one. Whether you book us, do it yourself, or hire someone else — running this first means you don't pay for a service you didn't need.
"Will my fantasy novel pass KDP review?"
Accepts .docx, .pdf, .epub · up to 200 MB · files never stored, deleted after 24h
Run the KDP Readiness Score →The format choice that matters most. We can deviate if your project needs it — but here's the working benchmark.
Acceptable alternatives: 5.5×8.5 in or 6.14×9.21 in · all are KDP-approved trim sizes
6×9 is the working benchmark for epic fantasy (Sanderson, Rothfuss, Erikson at their trad imprints). Gives 100k+ word manuscripts a manageable spine width, supports a 11-12pt body without page count exploding, and gives maps a proper double-spread on the front-matter.
Fantasy maps and sigils are treated as 300 DPI plates — and we'll redraw maps vector-first if you can supply layers.
The six things that make fantasy novel formatting different from generic novel formatting.
Double-spread maps at 300 DPI for print, single-page PNG fallback for EPUB, plus a fixed-layout map page on Kindle that doesn't reflow into a sliver. Vector-first if you supply layers.
Custom glyph or sigil at every chapter opening, scene-break ornaments that match. Faction-specific ornaments per POV if your book uses them (Game of Thrones-style).
Distinct typographic treatment per POV character — header glyph, mini-title-block, or pull-quote epigraph. The reader knows whose head they're in by page one of the chapter.
Cast list and term glossary set as scannable two-column lists on print, hyperlinked back to first-mention on EPUB. Trad epic-fantasy convention.
Chapter epigraphs from fictional in-world books, songs, or scriptures — set in a distinct face with full — attribution to the in-world source. Keeps the world-building texture intact.
Book one through book six get matched ornaments, matched front-matter style, matched author logo. The series looks like a series, not a stack of indie one-offs.
Whatever the book type, this is what every order includes.
KDP-compliant margins, mirrored gutters scaled to your page count, 0.125-inch bleed where needed, embedded fonts, 300 DPI image pre-flight, semantic page-break logic.
Optimised for every Kindle device including phone reading. Clean chapter recognition, working drop caps, scene-break ornaments, properly-linked TOC, semantic ordered/unordered lists.
Spine width auto-calculated from your final page count. Cover supplied to KDP-template spec for paperback, hardback or both. Full-bleed art tested against KDP's print profile.
Side-by-side viewer to comment on specific pages. Most books need none; complex non-fiction sometimes needs both. Additional rounds £19 each.
If KDP rejects your file for a formatting reason, we fix it free. We've never had a rejection — but the guarantee is the principle.
You send a Word file (or PDF, Google Docs, RTF, ODT, EPUB, plain text). We send back finished files. No software to install, no learning curve.
From £69 for print-ready PDF. £119 for print + Kindle. Picture-book and complete packages from £179.
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