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Scribe Freelance is dedicated to helping self-published authors and micro-press publishers produce the best products possible. In so doing, we provide professional interior layouts for books published via print-on-demand, and ensure quality and superiority in this area. Our layout service is professional grade, as we strive to apply a meticulous form of interior design with each work assigned to us.

Designing a book's Interior isn't as simple as it sounds, and it requires a professional eye when considering the right typeface and size; leading (between lines); proper hyphenation for tight, clean looking text; attractive headings, industry-standard bastard and full title pages, a correctly formatted copyright page, and so on. Be assured that our design will befit the subject matter of your book, as this will be important to your prospective readers. In addition, we take the various book genres into consideration, tailoring our designs to meet the standards of normal publishing conventions.

While we specialize in interior book design, we do provide a book cover service that is available to authors requiring sophisticated and streamlined covers, be it essentially simple, but professional, or graphically enhanced to wow your intended readers. See our Creation Process page.

Often, an image has to be licensed if you do not own the rights to it. We will purchase a license for any images needed to design your cover, and we will take your concepts into consideration as we work to bring your book cover to life. If you have no concepts in mind, we can brainstorm a few for you based on your book's content: the protagonist, overall plot, locations, themes, and subject matter, etc. We will also provide a cover that best represents your book's content without giving away crucial plot details (depending on the genre), which could potentially make for an unfavorable reading experience.