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- Revisions within the package are free.
- If you do not respond within 3 days of delivery, the work is accepted automatically.
The money is reserved when you pay and released only once you accept the work.
Example result
EPUB formatting: a short guide on sourdough baking
Before → after
Before (manuscript):
CHAPTER 3 – feeding your starter
Your starter is alive…
*Tip:* keep the jar away from the oven Chapter Four: The First Loaf
After (in the EPUB):
- Every chapter starts on a new page with the same heading style: Chapter 3. Feeding Your Starter
- All three kinds of breaks replaced with one centred scene-break mark
- Tips set as a consistent boxed note style
- "Chapter Four" renumbered to match: Chapter 4. The First Loaf
- Text kept word for word; only layout changed
Table of contents (clickable)
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication — For my grandmother, who never measured anything
- Introduction: Why Sourdough
- Chapter 1. Flour, Water, Time
- Chapter 2. Making a Starter from Scratch
- Chapter 3. Feeding Your Starter
- Chapter 4. The First Loaf
- Chapter 5. Shaping and Scoring
- Chapter 6. When Things Go Wrong
- Baking Schedule Cheat Sheet
- About the Author
Copyright page
Slow Rise: A Beginner's Guide to Sourdough
© 2026 Clara Whitfield. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced without written permission of the author, except brief quotations in reviews.
First edition.
Store description
Bake your first real sourdough loaf this weekend — no special equipment needed.
Slow Rise walks you from a jar of flour and water to a crackling, open-crumb loaf in six short chapters. You will learn how to start and keep a starter alive, read the dough instead of the clock, and fix the five most common problems: flat loaves, gummy crumb, pale crust, sour overload and a sleepy starter.
Inside: a printable weekend baking schedule, troubleshooting tables and plain advice from a baker who learned it all in a small home kitchen.
Files delivered
- slow-rise.epub — checked to open correctly in common e-book readers
- slow-rise-preview.pdf — for quick proofreading
- store-description.txt
Client: Clara Whitfield, home baker. Input: Word manuscript, 14,200 words, inconsistent headings, scene breaks typed as "* * *", "~~~" and blank lines. Output: EPUB with chapters and a clickable contents page, plus a store description.
The client and all details are made up.
About this service
In a poetry e-book, the line breaks and the space between stanzas are part of the poem, and the usual e-book formatting that runs lines together into paragraphs ruins it. Send your collection as a Word file or a PDF with selectable text, and we lay it out as an EPUB where every line break and stanza gap is kept, each poem starts with its title, and the clickable contents lists every poem, grouped by section if you have them. Shaped or concrete poems that depend on exact positions on the page cannot be kept on e-readers, so we flag them for you.
What is included
- What you getYour collection as an EPUB file for stores, the same text as a PDF and a clean Word file, with title, copyright, dedication and about-the-author pages. From Standard, a store description for the collection.
- Lines keptEvery line break and stanza gap
- Poem-by-poem contentsClickable, grouped by section
- Titles and epigraphsOne consistent style
- Front and back matterTitle, copyright, dedication, about you
- Shaped poems flaggedThose e-readers cannot show as designed
How it works
- 1ManuscriptYou upload the collection and details
- 2LayoutWe set every poem line by line
- 3DeliveryYou get EPUB, PDF and Word
What we need from you
The collection as Word or a PDF with selectable text (up to 2 files), the title, author name, year, dedication and about-the-author text, the order of poems and sections, and which poems use unusual spacing or indents.
We will ask you:
- Is the collection divided into sections?
- Which poems use indents or unusual spacing?
- Should untitled poems be listed by their first line?
- Which stores will you upload the book to?
Compare packages
| Packages | BasicChapbook up to 8,000 words$15 | StandardCollection up to 16,000 words$29 | PremiumUp to 24,000 words with typo fixes$49 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deadline | 1 day | 2 days | 3 days |
| Revisions | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Words | up to 8,000 | up to 16,000 | up to 24,000 |
| Poems | up to 60 | up to 120 | up to 180 |
| Store description | No | Yes | Yes |
| Typo fixes | No | No | Yes |
| Order Basic | Order Standard | Order Premium |
Payment protection
You pay when you order, but the money is released only for accepted work.
- Fixed priceThe package price does not change after you pay.
- The money is reservedWhen you pay, the amount is only reserved. It is released to the service once you accept the work.
- Checked before deliveryEvery result goes through a quality check before it reaches you, and you see it on the order page before accepting it.
- Free revisionsAsk for changes within your brief as many times as the package allows.
- Acceptance after 3 daysIf within 3 days of delivery you neither accept the work nor ask for changes, it is accepted automatically. If you write in the order chat after delivery, the order waits; once we answer, we may start the 3 days again and will say so in the chat.
- Redo or a full refundIf the result does not match your brief and the revisions did not fix it, or the work takes more than twice its deadline, write in the order chat: we will redo the work or refund the payment in full.
Questions and answers
Will indents look the same on every e-reader?
Simple indents are kept, but readers let people change font size, so long lines may wrap. We mark wrapped lines with a hanging indent so they still read as one line.
Will the stores accept my book?
We follow the common store requirements for EPUB files, but approval is up to each store. You upload the book yourself.
Will you change my text?
No, we keep it word for word. Typos are fixed only in Premium and only if you ask, with a list of every fix.