Short chapters that flick past. Time-stamp headers. Forensic-report inserts. Text-message scenes. We format thrillers and crime fiction so the pace on the page matches the pace on the screen.
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 thriller 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: 5×8 in or 5.5×8.5 in · all are KDP-approved trim sizes
Lee Child, Karin Slaughter, Mark Dawson — the working benchmark for genre thrillers is 5.25×8. It's slightly taller than romance, gives short chapters room to land on their own page, and keeps the spine slim for a 90,000-word manuscript.
Thrillers are text-led — but document inserts and any map plates we treat as 300 DPI images.
The six things that make thriller formatting different from generic novel formatting.
Chapter-per-page logic that keeps every chapter (even two-pagers) opening on a recto. The visual pace of a James Patterson, without the page-count blowing out.
Day, time, location at the top of cut scenes — formatted as a typographic block, not Word default text. Renders identically on Kindle and in print.
Forensic reports, witness statements, autopsy summaries, redacted memos — set in a monospaced display face that signals "this is a document" without making it unreadable.
Bubble-style layout on print, semantic blockquote pairs on Kindle. Each character's voice gets its own alignment so dialogue is followable without prefixes.
Last sentence of each chapter never orphans onto a fresh page. Hook lines land where readers turn the page, not three lines into the next chapter.
Book-in-series number on the spine, "a [Detective Name] novel" line under the title, consistent author logo. Critical for trad-style series shelving.
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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