How to Use Vellum to Format your Books

In this video, I show exactly how many minutes it takes to format your ebook and print books in Vellum, including all of the back and ffront matter. Spoiler: It takes less than 15 minutes.

[Mehrunissah]

This is unbelievably helpful. Because I always skip anything that's not the actual story, I didn't even realize that a good author *needs* all of these parts if we want to look professional and be taken seriously. That call to leave a review is super helpful, too!

[mccadedolan]

Thank you for this fantastic video! I took the plunge and purchased it and am having a blast putting together my novel.

[EricHillAuthor]

Nice! I've just purchased a Mac Air, primarily for Vellum. Yours is the first tutorial I've watched. I'm ready to get started! Thank you.

[HAL.]

Great video. Thanks, Natasha. Can see why Vellum is worth the investment over the freebies.

[JoeyTheGrove]

Can you do custom trim size? Trim size between hardcover and softcover can sometimes be slightly different...great video! So many create ideas I'm going to incorporate in my books!

[ADBorrego]

This helped me out so much, thank you!

[ladyangelaIII]

My God you resemble me so much!
Except that after having the gallbladder removed, my neck is now slim and tall again :)
Thank you very much for the input.

[AuthorBrittanyWang]

This was SO helpful, thank you for the walk through!!

[percyvasquez]

side note! Love the cover for the book Bionic bug! Thank you very much for the video. You make it look so easy. Im definitely getting Vellum now

[Zizzosfullaspect]

Thank you for this video! How did you create the bundle image?

[MoniqueJoinerSiedlak_Author]

I have gone back and forth whether or not to get Vellum. I'm not a Mac user. I prefer building my PCs since they will do exactly what I want to do. Seeing this, I'm throwing in the towel and going for it. Being me, I ran the numbers of updating all my books that still need to be formatted. It will cost me $5200. My first MacBook and Vellum will cost me almost $1500. No brainer there. I like to save money and it won't really cost me any extra time since I'm already up to 0130 waiting for hubby to come home. I already spend the time going over my back list. Who know, I may make it a service.

[inCARSONate]

Hello - thanks for your video. Can you add multiple photos on the same page with vellum? Example: could I add 30 small square photos on 1 page? Thank you

[raghavendraj]

Tanks for giving information madam... and keep do your work more on latest E-Book....

[simplybllc]

You did an amazing job! Thank you for sharing!!

[jean-baptistepoquelin]

Hi Natasha, Using Vellum, I just uploaded my eBook (ePub file) to Amazon & the page numbers are completely messed up. Any suggestions? Thanks, you’re the best!

[mixedmedia_artist]

how do you create an amazing interior? I've seen some amazing interiors created with Vellum. So when the book is printed its on the pages.

[donnaharrington]

This was amazing! Thanks for showing the entire process so quickly. Question: if I want to do custom ornamental breaks, do you know where I can buy/upload them from? Your beetles are great, but what if I want little line drawings? Or just fancier embellishments? Any idea on where to source those from, or how to create on my own? Thanks again!

[albertmarble]

Thank you for sharing your workflow! How did you get the date at the start of the chapters so they didn't get formatted as the first paragraph? Did you have set its style before you imported the text?

[sambond]

Hello, Thanks for the tutorial. However, when you say "for my print version", I can't see where you're hitting to add the full wrap cover. Could you go into a little more detail? Or maybe someone else can see where you're hitting with your cursor for the add element to come up?

[daisypatritio]

How does decreasing the number of pages increase your royalties with a Kindle book?

Do you mean only with a paperback book, to save printing costs?

Kindle Unlimited pays for number of pages read, so it would seem to make more sense to have larger fonts per page to get more pages? Is that correct?