How to Format a Book Using VELLUM (Beautiful and professional formatting done in minutes!)

Learn how to format a beautiful and professional ebook and print book in minutes! In this video, I share how I format my own ebooks and print books using Vellum.

I'm obsessed with Vellum and love using it to format my books. Do you have any questions about Vellum that I didn't cover in this video? If so, don't hesitate to comment them below 👇

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 I’m author Claire fraise
1:10 What is Vellum?
2:48 Importing a Word file
4:23 The Interface
5:43 Styles
10:58 How I customize styles in my books
11:59 Adding elements & additional formatting
16:29 Generate
19:07 Closing thoughts

[Donovanwashere]

Thank you for posting this! Very helpful 🙏

[Ivory_rxses]

Ur videos always help, I feel like whenever I'm in a writing slump I can watch your videos and write for years.

[iamlizzymorris]

Thanks I got a lot out of this. I am just going to start doing short fiction so this was so helpful

[debragiuffrida]

Awesome! Thank you! Am trying to format my ebook on my MACBOOK Air with Word! Tried KDP and screamed! Argh! Vellum sounds perfect! Thank you for the well explained video tutorial!

[MariaGadileys]

Thank you for sharing Claire! You made it very clear and straightforward. Well done!

[jeaninehawkins]

That was an excellent video. I didn't realize Vellum had the text bubbles. That is so awesome.

[melodythompson]

You probably showed more help to viewers interested in learning than others

[PatGarciaAuthor]

Thank you, Claire! Your video has been very helpful. This is my first time using Vellum. You have done a great job explaining what I need to know. All the best. Shalom shalom

[advsonhere]

First time I am here. Thanks for this tutorial. I needed it in order to make my mind on buying or not Vellum and you bought me into it. By the way, I love to see you are passionate about writing and publishing! I subscribed to your channel. Greetings from Costa Rica!

[SilverXT]

I use Vellum too! It's so amazing and such a time saver

[vangiekitty]

This is very helpful! Thank you so much

[jasneskis]

I’m glad I found you. You have a lot of books. Do you advertise your books through face book or emails like MailerLite. How do you get your books to be seen by the public? I am now trying to learn vellum through their tutorial. Haven’t bought real program yet. Sample program. Had to buy Mac too. Learning to use it. Any thoughts, help you can share will be appreciated. Just saying pictures in books cost money to Amazon is worth knowing. I see your example book is over 100, 000 words. How many pages is that. Does vellum # pages? How many pages is 100, 000 words? Is it good to write books of that length? Thank you. You are inspiring. You’re young. I’m 80+ still learning and tackling new things.

[ADBorrego]

This was great, thanks, Claire! One question, though, you mentioned how you checked all of your YA novels to see what size they were. I'm assuming it was 5.5 x 8.5?

[tealrose]

thank you would love to see how to use a full picture for the books (for full bleed pictures or chapter art)

[jammywesty]

This was really enlightening, thank you. One thing I cannot find anywhere online, is whether or not Vellum allows you to set text into two columns on a single page. Do you know if that's possible?

[stuartbrown]

Thanks Claire. This was useful. I have a Mac, so can use Vellum potentially. But the cost is very off-putting. Hence looking also at Atticus, which is way cheaper. But watching your video and Atticus videos, I did get that vibe that Vellum is nicer to use. Have you tested out Atticus at all?

[gabi_razazi]

Hi!! Do you or anyone else knows if there is a way to set Vellum so I can scroll through the chapters? It’s so annoying not being able to read everything in a continuous way, specially for editing.

[jazzychazzy]

Thanks - I have 5 short stories I am going to publish I am not a tech geek, my spacing and margins etc are all different in the stories, Can I correct this in Vellum? I'm ready to purchase this but that is my only concern.

[sveinnbenonysson]

This is a good video, but after watching it I noticed som errors that you have made befor importing the file from Microsoft Word. We need to use stiles in Word befor importing the file to Vellum. That way Vellum makes no mistake naming chapters, as it is in Word. Using stiles in Word makes the writing also so much easier. :D

[booksandauthorsindependenttv]

I'm struggling to open a new book document