Book formatting
Format Your Romance Novel
The Colette theme: elegant chapter numerals between hairlines, a warm readable serif, and ornamented scene breaks — made for romance.
Romance readers buy in volume and notice design — the genre's paperbacks have a recognizable elegance: a large graceful chapter numeral, soft serif text, decorative scene breaks, italic running heads. Ceeryo's Colette theme was designed for exactly this shelf: a high-contrast Didone numeral between hairline rules opens each chapter, body text is set in a warm old-style serif, and scene breaks get a delicate dotted ornament. Upload your manuscript, and your book comes back dressed for its genre — as a print interior and an EPUB.
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Last updated: August 5, 2026 · Reviewed by the Ceeryo team
You'll confirm chapters, title and front matter before anything is set. Your words never change — only the typography.
Real output
What the typeset pages actually look like
Chapter opener and body page from each interior theme — rendered from the engine's real output at 6×9, not mockups.
How it works
From manuscript to book in four steps
The fastest way from a finished Word manuscript to print-ready files — no templates, no desktop app, no per-page fiddling.
- Step 1
Upload your manuscript
Drop in the .docx manuscript you have finished writing. Your file is processed only to typeset it and is never used to train models.
- Step 2
Chapters are detected
Chapter openings, scene breaks and italics are found automatically, without changing a word of your text.
- Step 3
The book is typeset
Trim size, margins and gutter, running heads, drop caps and chapter openers are set as a real book interior.
- Step 4
Download print PDF + EPUB
A print-ready interior PDF at your chosen trim size plus a clean EPUB, checked against the geometry KDP enforces.
In short
Romance interiors have genre conventions — elegant chapter numerals, soft serif body text, ornamented scene breaks. Ceeryo's Colette theme applies them automatically to your manuscript, producing a print-ready PDF and EPUB that look at home next to traditionally published romance.
What makes a romance novel interior look 'right'?
Convention: a large elegant chapter numeral (often a Didone face) with light rules or flourishes, a warm serif for body text, italic or letterspaced running heads, and decorative scene-break ornaments. It signals the genre before a word is read. Colette encodes these conventions; you just pick it in the theme selector.
Designed for the shelf
Genre design is a promise to the reader
Covers make the sale; interiors keep the trust. A romance that opens like a corporate report breaks the spell. Colette's numerals, ornaments, and folios — '— 132 —' — keep the promise the cover made.
Features
Why authors choose Ceeryo
Didone chapter numerals
A large light numeral between hairline rules opens every chapter.
Ornamented breaks
Dotted scene-break ornaments with hairline flanks.
Series-ready
Re-run every book in the series for identical interior design.
Use cases
Where Ceeryo works best
KDP romance paperback
5×8 or 5.25×8 with the genre's look, preflight-checked.
Kindle edition
The EPUB carries the same structure for e-readers.
Rapid-release series
Format each entry in minutes, identically.
Why not do it by hand?
Ceeryo vs. doing it manually
Typesetting a book by hand in Word or InDesign takes days and rarely passes KDP's checks the first time. Here's the difference.
Output quality
What the finished book files look like
Every run produces a preflight-checked print PDF and a clean EPUB — never a rewrite of your words. Here's what you get.
- Playfair-lineage numerals with hairline rules
- Warm old-style serif body text
- Letterspaced '— n —' folios
- Drop caps on chapter openings
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Frequently asked questions
Can I use Colette for other genres?+
Of course — it suits women's fiction, sagas, and literary fiction with a soft aesthetic. Themes are suggestions, not locks.
What trim do romance paperbacks use?+
Mass-appeal romance is usually 5×8 or 5.25×8; longer contemporary romance often goes 5.5×8.5. All are in the trim picker — compare page counts across them.
Do dual-POV chapter labels work?+
Yes — chapters titled with character names ('Chapter Three: Elena') keep the name as the chapter title under the numeral.
Dress your romance for its shelf
Upload the manuscript and download the Colette interior + EPUB.