Enhanced Interior Formatting
$199
The Enhanced Interior Formatting service gives your book a professionally designed interior built around a custom style sheet tailored to your genre, tone, and preferences.
Instead of standard formatting with limited flexibility — or full page-by-page custom design — this option creates a cohesive design system that defines your typography, chapter styling, spacing, headers, and overall layout. The result is a polished, consistent interior that reflects your vision without the cost or complexity of full custom layout.
Shape How Readers Experience Your Story
With Enhanced Interior Formatting, you help guide the style — and our designer builds a cohesive system that shapes how your book feels from beginning to end.
What “Enhanced Interior Formatting” Actually Means
This service centers on a personalized style sheet created by a professional book designer in Adobe InDesign. That style sheet defines the design rules that shape your interior — ensuring a polished, intentional look that fits your content.
Instead of manually styling pages one at a time, your designer establishes a consistent design framework that controls the interior’s overall appearance — chapter openings, headers/footers, typography choices, spacing, and more — so the final layout is cohesive and professional.
You Provide Input — Your Designer Builds the System
Before design begins, we collect your preferences so the style reflects the experience you want readers to have. You can guide elements such as:
- Font style and size
- Line spacing and margins
- Hyphenation preferences
- Chapter openers and title treatment
- Header/footer styles
Then your designer turns that into a custom Style Sheet — the “ruleset” that drives the design throughout the book.
Best for Authors Who Want a Unique Look — without Page-by-Page Design
This option is ideal for authors who:
- Want your interior to feel more tailored than the standard look.
- Have preferences (fonts, chapter style, spacing), but don’t to control every page.
- Want a clean, consistent interior that fits your genre and voice.
Same Story. Three Ways to Shape your Reader Experience.
| Standard Interior Layouts | Enhanced Interior Layouts | Custom Interior Layouts |
| Professional, clean, genre-appropriate formatting. | Designer-built style system tailored to your genre and vision. | Fully bespoke, page-by-page creative design. |
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How This Compares to Standard & Custom
| Standard Interior Formatting | Enhanced Interior Formatting | Custom Interior Formatting | |
| Included In | All publishing packages | Optional upgrade | Optional premium service |
| Design Direction | Designer chooses genre-appropriate formatting | You provide preferences; designer builds a custom style system | Collaborative, page-by-page creative design |
| Level of Customization | Minimal | Tailored style sheet applied consistently throughout | High — unique layouts across pages |
| Typography & Spacing | Professionally formatted using standard styles | Custom font selections, spacing, and layout rules based on your input | Fully customized typography and layout treatment |
| Chapter & Section Styling | Clean, traditional presentation | Styled chapter openers and coordinated visual elements | Completely custom chapter designs and graphic integration |
| Best For Authors Who… | Want a professional, straightforward interior | Want a distinctive, professionally designed interior without full custom layout | Need complex layouts, graphics, or page-by-page art direction |
| Overall Experience | Reliable and professional | Signature look with structured design system | Fully bespoke book interior design |
Most authors choose Enhanced Interior Formatting when they want a distinctive, genre-tailored interior with creative input — without the cost or complexity of full custom layout.
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From Our Authors on Enhanced Interior Formatting
"I love the choice of font, the graphic elements used as spacers, and the design for the section dividers. All perfect!" — Barbara Lehman Smith
"I just received my book and was very pleased with the interior. I love the colored pages, the style of font, and the text format. I would definitely recommend the Enhanced Interior to everyone." — Barbara Bryan
"Wow!!!! These are awesome concepts! I love them all. They really capture the feel I was hoping to achieve. This is truly something I would have been unable to do for myself. Thanks for taking the time to understand what I needed for this book." — Horace McMillon
Before You Select This Option
- Enhanced Interior Formatting focuses on building a Style Sheet (a design system), not page-by-page customization. If you need page-level art direction and unique layouts throughout, choose Custom Book Layout & Design instead.
- Any fonts or graphic elements not already available through Outskirts Press must be provided by you with the appropriate license.
- Fees are non-refundable.