Station 01 · Receiving
Bring your manuscript
Drop in one Word file per chapter, a .zip of them, or the whole book in one file. Galley finds the chapter headings and puts the chapters in order.
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Made by a novelist, for novelists
Drop in your chapters. Galley sets them as a proper book and gives you a print-ready PDF for KDP or IngramSpark and an EPUB for the ebook stores.
Open Galleyfree. honestly.
Free · No account · Your manuscript never leaves your desk
From draft to book
Seven small mercies.
Chapter 1 The Last Ferry
The ferry to the island left at four, and it did not wait for anyone.··Nessa had been told this three times before breakfast, once by her aunt, once by the woman at the ticket window, and once by a hand-painted sign nailed to the harbour wall.
"You're late," he said, without looking up.
"The sign said--"
"I know what the sign said. I painted it." He flicked the apple peel into the water. "Get on, then. Tide won't hold for ever."
"And whatever you do..."
This is what Galley does to every page of your book.
Skip aheadThe press room
Six stations from manuscript to book.
Job ticket
- 01
- 02
- 03
- 04
- 05
- 06
Station 02 · Front office
Add the pages around the story
Title page, copyright, dedication, epigraph, ‘Also by’, acknowledgements and about the author. Leave one empty and its page is left out.
THE LAST FERRY Your Name
Station 03 · Composing room
Choose how it looks
Pick a trim size, a typeface, a chapter style and a scene-break ornament. The preview changes as you go.
The Last Ferry
The ferry to the island left at four, and it did not wait for anyone. Nessa had been told this three times before breakfast.
Station 04 · Proofing desk
Read the proof
Galley lists anything worth a second look, with its page number: a quotation that never closes, a very loose line, a page that ran one line short.
Station 05 · Press
Download a print-ready PDF for KDP or IngramSpark and an EPUB for the ebook stores. Save a project file to come back later.
Station 06 · The tip jar
Tip the printer, if you like
Galley is free and stays free. If it saved you a typesetter’s fee, a tip keeps the press running and the art of the printed page alive.
Optional. Galley works the same either way.
The type case
Four faces, chosen for long reading.
EB Garamond
Set at 11.5 pt on 15 pt
The ferry to the island left at four, and it did not wait for anyone. Nessa had been told this three times before breakfast, once by her aunt, once by the woman at the ticket window, and once by a hand-painted sign nailed to the harbour wall.
The imposing stone
Work out your spine before you brief a designer.
- Spine width
- 1.045 in
- 26.5 mm
- Full cover
- 12.295 × 8.750 in
- 312.3 × 222.3 mm
- KDP needs more than 79 pages for text on the spine.
- IngramSpark’s spine can differ slightly: use its free cover template generator.
Made for novels
Sets well
- Chapters and parts
- Prologue and epilogue
- Scene breaks
- Epigraphs
- Letters
- Verse and song lyrics
Leaves out
- Footnotes
- Tables
- Pictures inside the text
Galley tells you when your file has them instead of setting them badly. For a cookbook or a textbook, you’ll want different software.
Privacy
Your manuscript stays on your desk.
Galley runs entirely in your browser. Your chapters are read, typeset and turned into files on your own computer. Nothing is uploaded, there’s no account, and I never see your book.
Why I built it
I built Galley to typeset my own fantasy novel, Finn Madden and the Cauldron of Rebirth. Once it worked for my book (which took many, many, many iterations), I decided to give it away to other authors who want to break out of the publishing machine.
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