Vellum for Authors

  

 

Again, I’d like to say a huge thank you to guest blogger, Stacey Osvett, for giving us the fantastic post on how to use Vellum. We had more reads on the post than other this year. You rock, Stacey!

So, how do authors use Vellum? It’s simple. Just format your books. Vellum gives authors a straightforward way to create digital versions of their books. No worries about weird edit marks or random spacing. Anyone can go Indie with Vellum in their tool belt. The program also offers a way for authors to be creative with their chapter starts, section breaks, and more. Vellum books look very professional and polished, adding to your brand and showing the world you are a serious writer.

It’s easy to create books for different sellers and link them inside the book. Vellum will format print books without the guesswork or using something like Amazon’s publishing app. Need to make a box set? No problem. They have a new format, PDF/X-1a that works with IngramSpark to create a formatted product that uploads seamlessly.

What else can you do with Vellum? Perhaps you can use it for your blog, creating a more interesting style for your posts. Then it’s easy enough to publish your blog as a book, adding to your brand and selling your amazing writing. Or finally put together that pile of short stories. With the ominous task of formatting off the plate, authors can create professional books with little effort.

Again, Vellum is only available for Mac. The cost is $200 for unlimited eBooks and $250 for unlimited eBooks and paperbacks.