Format My Wacky Memoir{ 35 Years Giving Driving Tests at the DMV. And What IT Taught ME!
Budget: $250 – $350 USD
I’ve finished writing a 60,000-word, wildly episodic job memoir that now needs the kind of polish an agent expects to see on day one. The content is locked; what I’m looking for is immaculate formatting and layout.
Here’s what I need from you:
• A fully formatted manuscript in Word (and a clean, print-ready PDF) that follows whichever industry-standard style agents favour most—feel free to lean into Chicago if that’s the safer bet
• A complete title page, table of contents generated from live headings, and running headers/footers that stay perfectly in sync as chapters shift
• Front-matter extras: dedication, acknowledgements, and a brief disclaimer placed where they traditionally belong
• Consistent chapter openers, scene breaks, and typography that complement the memoir’s off-beat tone without distracting from readability
• All margins, line spacing, widows/orphans, and page breaks tuned for both digital submission and on-demand print
• Final files delivered as:
– .docx (editable, track-changes off)
– PDF (print-ready, embedded fonts)
If you have InDesign, Vellum, or equally robust layout skills, let me know; I’m open to whichever tool delivers the cleanest result. Above all, I want the manuscript to look like it just rolled out of a traditional publisher’s production team.
Here’s what I need from you:
• A fully formatted manuscript in Word (and a clean, print-ready PDF) that follows whichever industry-standard style agents favour most—feel free to lean into Chicago if that’s the safer bet
• A complete title page, table of contents generated from live headings, and running headers/footers that stay perfectly in sync as chapters shift
• Front-matter extras: dedication, acknowledgements, and a brief disclaimer placed where they traditionally belong
• Consistent chapter openers, scene breaks, and typography that complement the memoir’s off-beat tone without distracting from readability
• All margins, line spacing, widows/orphans, and page breaks tuned for both digital submission and on-demand print
• Final files delivered as:
– .docx (editable, track-changes off)
– PDF (print-ready, embedded fonts)
If you have InDesign, Vellum, or equally robust layout skills, let me know; I’m open to whichever tool delivers the cleanest result. Above all, I want the manuscript to look like it just rolled out of a traditional publisher’s production team.