Interior Book Designer for Nonfiction

Posted 4 weeks ago

Worldwide

Summary

I am looking for an experienced interior book designer/typesetter to prepare a completed manuscript for publication. The book is titled Epicenter of Infinity: Seeing the Patterns That Shape Your Life. It is contemplative philosophical nonfiction with a spiritual and existential dimension. The manuscript is completed and professionally edited. This is not a generic self-help book, workbook, journal, or motivational title. It needs a serious, mature, highly readable interior that suits philosophical nonfiction and can stand beside professionally published books. The project is for interior layout and typesetting for print. The manuscript includes section pages, chapter openings, short chapter-opening lines, subsection headings, and reflective prose. The layout should feel clean, intelligent, timeless, and measured, with strong attention to typography, spacing, margins, hierarchy, and readability. I am not looking for a basic template or someone who simply converts a Word document into a PDF. I am looking for someone with real judgment in book interiors and typography. The design should avoid anything that feels generic self-help, trendy, overly spiritual, decorative, amateurish, template-based, or visually loud. Relevant experience with nonfiction, literary nonfiction, philosophy, spirituality, contemplative writing, memoir, or serious independent publishing would be especially valuable. Book details Book title: Epicenter of Infinity Subtitle: Seeing the Patterns That Shape Your Life Category: Contemplative philosophical nonfiction / spiritual nonfiction Length: Approximately 50,000 words Status: Completed and professionally edited Needed: Interior book design, typesetting, and print-ready formatting About the book Epicenter of Infinity explores the patterns that shape a human life: perception, inherited beliefs, identity, consciousness, responsibility, social conditioning, interconnection, natural law, and the difference between surface reality and deeper truth. The writing is serious, direct, and reflective. It is not conventional self-help or a step-by-step guide. The interior should support that tone. Please include in your proposal Please include: Examples of previous book interiors you have designed or typeset Experience with nonfiction or similar books What files you usually deliver Whether you can prepare print-ready files for platforms such as KDP/IngramSpark Whether you also handle ebook formatting Your estimated timeline Your fixed-price estimate or fee structure Please only apply if you have strong experience with professional book interiors and can show relevant examples.

  • Less than 30 hrs/week
    Hourly
  • 1-3 months
    Duration
  • Intermediate
    Experience Level
  • Remote Job
  • Ongoing project
    Project Type
Skills and Expertise
Mandatory skills
Adobe Photoshop
Interior Design
Nice-to-have skills
Print Design
Graphic Design
Activity on this job
  • Proposals:20 to 50
  • Last viewed by client:4 weeks ago
  • Interviewing:
    4
  • Invites sent:
    2
  • Unanswered invites:
    0
About the client
Member since Mar 24, 2020
  • BGR
    Sofia3:58 PM
  • $850 total spent
    1 hire, 1 active

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