Beautiful Templates for Book Design Success
Now you can quickly and easily create beautiful books right in Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, Affinity Publisher, or Adobe InDesign. Built to industry-standard specifications, our pre-designed templates will make your book stand out, without all of those newbie mistakes. Handcrafted by an award-winning book designer, our exciting technology allows you to format your book for both print and eBooks at the same time, using a program you already own and know how to use, and without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars hiring a designer.
Our Most Popular DIY Template Designs!
Pulp
- Designed for Bestseller Style Novels and Literary Non-Fiction
- Available for Word, Pages, and InDesign
- 2Way Design: Format Print and eBook at the Same Time
- Compact Design Saves up to 30% on Printing Costs
Spark
- Designed for Novels and General Non-Fiction
- Available for Word, Pages and InDesign
- 2Way Design: Format Print and eBook at the Same Time
- Our Most Popular Design for the Widest Range of Books
Expressive
- Simplified Design for Non-Fiction, and Literary Non-Fiction
- Available Only for MS Word
- 2Way Design: Format Print and eBook at the Same Time
- Easiest to Use, No Fonts to Install and Minimal Steps to Use.
Elite
- Designed for Fiction and Literary Non-Fiction
- Available for Word and InDesign
- 2Way Design: Format Print and eBook at the Same Time
- Our Most Advanced Template for Multiple Uses
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Reasons You're Going to Love Our Templates
Hand-Crafted Design
We have our roots in classic book design, and our templates show it. Each design carefully balances typographic beauty with ease of reading to deliver an aesthetically pleasing experience that makes your book truly stand above the tsunami of plain vanilla, look-alike books.
Easy to Use
Instead of trying to decide what your books should look like, we’ve made all the decisions for you. Just follow our friendly instructional guide, pour in your text and your book will be ready to go. All your styles and formatting needs are coded into our templates for easy use.
Solid Construction
Each template comes complete with five kinds of interior pages, section breaks pre-installed, running heads, and page numbers, and everything exactly the way it should be, all put together by an award-winning book designer so there’s no guessing involved.
Fully Customizable
Detailed Instructions
Productivity Through Innovation
All of our designs are engineered to export to both eBook and Print, so you can create your print edition, eBook edition, or both, with the same file, using our exclusive 2Way Technology.
We include versions of the templates in Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, Affinity Publisher, and Adobe InDesign, so you have the ultimate choice in which tool you wan to use to format your book, with every purchase.
You can export your manuscript from popular writing tools like Scrivener, and import the text into our templates to fully format your book.
Our Premium Designs Get A Lot of Buzz
Our Premium Designs for Print and eBook offer incredible typography, sophisticated design elements, and a full set of features that will please authors of every niche and genre. Better yet, our templates easily convert to eBook too, so your high-end print book, and eBook both look professional and well-polished, with minimal effort.
Interior Templates for Non-Fiction and Reference
Achieve
- Achieve offers a feature-rich design with stylized formatting for a variety of books.
Focus
- Focus boldly gets to the point you want to make quickly, with striking chapter openings.
Magnificent
- Large Print for Non-Fiction, and Literary Non-Fiction using Elite technology.
Exceptional
- Exceptional, our fun, happy, and elegant template. This is a great design for fiction.
Atlanta
- Introducing Atlanta – Our Sophisticated and Stylish Template for Literary Excellence
Super-Simplified Word Templates with for
Fiction, and Literary Non-Fiction
Fiction, and Literary Non-Fiction
Interior Templates with Broad Appeal for Fiction,
and Literary Non-Fiction
and Literary Non-Fiction
Bomber
- Bomber will give your thriller, paranormal, sci-fi or fantasy novel impact without shouting.
Crimson
- Crimson brings a classic elegance to your book, a style that every reader will love.
Historian
- Historian is designed for your historical fiction in any era, with a dramatic chapter opening.
Noir
- Noir perfectly serves thriller, mystery, and suspense readers with a pared-down design.
Quantum
- Quantum bring excitement and a feeling of impending action to your science fiction books.
Flourish
- Flourish establishes an ideal environment for your work with distinctive typography.
Legend
- Legend evokes feelings that you stir in your readers with its elegant script display font.
Lightning
- Lightning is a contemporary design with sans serif typography and modern style.
Interior Templates for Picture Books, Cookbooks and Poetry
Spectacle
- Spectacle is a classic and easy to read layout for photo books and travel books.
Poetics
- Poetics conveys your poetry to readers with a sense of style and aesthetic flexibility.
Interior Templates for Children's and YA Books
Affection
- Affection brings fun and a bit of irreverence to pre-teen fiction with some sparkle.
Delightful
- Delightful creates chapter books with a lively style that's easy for new readers.
Thrilling
- Thrilling is a chapter book with strong style and bold, easy to read typography.
Story Fable
- Story Fable is great news for picture book authors with five different page layout styles.
Author Series |
The Author Series pays homage to some of the finest authors of the last hundred years, bringing the designs for their books into the present. Each template design draws on the works of a famous author, and provides a container for your own works. While we've kept these designs faithful to the spirit of each author's work, we've also brought them up to date to enable today's authors to create truly classic print and ebooks.
Asimov
- Asimov bring the style and substance of the legendary master to your publications.
Ellison
- The Ellison template has a light and airy feel, and an illustrated title page and floral ornament.
Faulkner
- Faulkner’s strong, architectural title page provides great solidity for your work.
Hemingway
- The Hemingway template is a classic container for your works of fiction and literary nonfiction.
Morrison
- Morrison captures the flow of Nobel prize winning novelist Toni Morrison’s works.
Sell More Books with Our Beautiful, Affordable Covers
Our premade cover designs let you quickly choose a professionally-designed cover at an exceptional price. And customization is easy because we place your book title and author name right on the cover for you. It's the perfect mix of "done for you" and "pre-designed" at a smart price.
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What People are Saying about Book Design Templates
Joel Friedlander’s template tools are easy to use, beautiful and so affordable. Content creators drop their Word files into one of the templates, follow the easy-to-use guide and then export out both print (PDFs) and eBook (Epub) formats. Users can take those files, upload them into IngramSpark and they work like magic.
Robin Cutler, Manager, IngramSpark
Joel Friedlander’s Book Design Templates take the mystery out of formatting attractive, easy-to-read print-on-demand books. No detail has been overlooked from fonts and design options to detailed instructions ̶ in offering a complete solution.
Roger C. Parker, PublishedAndProfitable.com
Genius! These templates are pure genius! In less than one hour, I had a great looking title page, customized copyright page, author back page, and three chapters of a novel LOOKING GREAT! There is so much built into your template, why would anybody want anything different? These templates are wonderful!
Michele Gibson, BestWritingBooks.com