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Format your romance novel for KDP.

Scene-break ornaments that breathe. Drop caps on every first chapter page. Series branding kept consistent across book one, two and the box set. We format romance — contemporary, historical, paranormal, RH — so it reads the way readers expect.

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Free · 60 seconds · No payment

Before you pay anyone — score it free first.

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.

  • Margins & gutter
  • Image DPI
  • Font embedding
  • ToC links
  • Blank pages
  • ISBN match
  • Bleed configuration
  • Page-count rules
  • Spine width
  • EPUB validation
  • 20+ more checks
  • Per-file PDF report
Step 1 · Production

KDP Readiness Score

"Will my romance novel pass KDP review?"

Drop your manuscript
Or click to choose a file

Accepts .docx, .pdf, .epub · up to 200 MB · files never stored, deleted after 24h

Run the KDP Readiness Score →

The recommended trim size

The format choice that matters most. We can deviate if your project needs it — but here's the working benchmark.

Recommended KDP trim

For romance novel — go with 5×8 in

5×8 in

Acceptable alternatives: 5.06×7.81 in or 5.25×8 in · all are KDP-approved trim sizes

Mass-market romance overwhelmingly lives at 5×8. Readers expect a pocket-sized paperback, and the smaller trim means a thicker spine for a given word-count — which looks more substantial on the shelf and gives you room for series branding on the back.

Romance is text-only — no image pre-flight needed, but every typographic detail matters.

What we get right for romance novel

The six things that make romance novel formatting different from generic novel formatting.

Scene-break ornaments

Glyph dividers between scenes (rose, heart, fleuron — your call). Consistent every chapter. Reflowable on Kindle, centred on print.

Drop caps that work

Three-line raised drop cap opens every chapter. Renders correctly on Kindle, Paperwhite, Fire, iOS Books and Kobo — not just print.

Series branding consistency

Series title, book number and author logo carried through every interior. Book two matches book one exactly. Box sets reuse the same masters.

Sensual content + Kindle Unlimited

We don't censor — but we flag any layout choice (heavy italics blocks, excessive caps) that's tripped KU's auto-filters in 2026.

Author page + back-matter

"Also by" page, mailing-list CTA, review request, sneak-peek of book two. The back-matter that turns a one-time reader into a series reader.

Front-matter discipline

Dedication, content warning (if any), epigraph, copyright — laid out the way trad romance imprints do it, not the way Word defaults.

Standard, on every project

Whatever the book type, this is what every order includes.

Print-ready PDF

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.

Reflowable Kindle EPUB

Optimised for every Kindle device including phone reading. Clean chapter recognition, working drop caps, scene-break ornaments, properly-linked TOC, semantic ordered/unordered lists.

Cover wrap calibration

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.

Two free revision rounds

Side-by-side viewer to comment on specific pages. Most books need none; complex non-fiction sometimes needs both. Additional rounds £19 each.

KDP-approval guarantee

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.

UK-based, no Mac required

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.

Ready to format your romance novel?

From £69 for print-ready PDF. £119 for print + Kindle. Picture-book and complete packages from £179.

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Last reviewed May 2026 · Reviewed by the publishing.co.uk team