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You wrote the book.
Now watch it become a real one.

See it happen to your own words. Pick a design, choose what your book needs, and check out. Cantos, your professionally trained AI book shepherd, builds the whole book from the manuscript you have. If your book is not what you wanted, ask for a refund within 30 days and you get back everything you paid.

Pick a look for your book · twenty designs

Atlanta · Literary

Nin · Memoir

Leadership · Business

Noir · Thriller

Bard · Fantasy

Asimov · Sci-Fi

Inspire · Self-Help

Historian · Historical

Elite · Classic

Magnificent · Large Print

Brisk · Modern

Indie · Novel

Lightning · Bold

Minimalist · Clean

Pulp · Genre

Spark · Fresh

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Bring your manuscript as a Word document (.docx). An older .doc, an .rtf or an .odt works too, and Cantos converts it for you. Make your account, choose what your book needs (interior, cover, copy editing, the marketing kit; bundles apply automatically), check out, and Cantos builds your book in the design and trim you pick.

100% money-back guarantee for 30 days. You keep the copyright to every word.

Your manuscript is never used to train AI. Ever.

Before: the Word document

The First Images

On July 11, 2022, the White House released a single photograph: a patch of sky the apparent size of a grain of sand held at arm's length, crowded with thousands of galaxies. Webb's First Deep Field, centered on the cluster SMACS 0723, took less than a day of observing time. Hubble's comparable deep fields had taken weeks.

The next morning brought the rest: the spectrum of water vapor in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-96b; the death-shroud of a dying star in the Southern Ring Nebula; the compact dance of Stephan's Quintet; and the image that ended up on posters everywhere, the Cosmic Cliffs of the Carina Nebula, a coastline of dust and starlight seven light-years tall.

After: the same pages, designed by Cantos The same passage professionally typeset by Cantos: real margins, running heads, figures, and chapter openings

The same passage professionally typeset by Cantos: real margins, running heads, figures, and chapter openings

The very same words, before and after. This is the difference between a book that looks generated and one that looks crafted by a designer. See it happen to yours.

Do not take our word for it. This is a real book we designed, and you can inspect both files yourself:

↓ The Word Manuscript (.docx) Open the Finished Book (PDF)

How It Works

Three steps, and your money back if it is not right.

1Choose your design and what you need

Pick from twenty professional designs built for memoirs, novels, business books, and more, then choose interior, cover, copy editing or the marketing kit. Bundles apply automatically.

2Check out and upload your manuscript

Pay with PayPal or any major card, then send any Word document. Raw, messy, half-formatted, it does not matter. Cantos cleans it up before a single page is laid out.

3Cantos builds your book

Your print-ready files are yours, with revision passes included for any change you want on Revise. Not what you wanted? Ask for a refund within 30 days and you get back everything you paid.

Prefer the Full Tour First?

Watch a whole book come to life.

We filmed the complete, unhurried walkthrough: a real manuscript becoming a finished book, interior and cover, start to end. Twenty minutes, nothing skipped, nothing staged. Or skip the film and start your own book; the money-back guarantee covers you for 30 days.

▶ Watch the Full Walkthrough

One App, The Whole Book

Cantos handles the full stack.

Interior, cover, copy editing, and the marketing kit, all in one place, each $99.99, with bundles that save up to $150: interior and cover together are $149.99, and all four are $249.99. Choose what your book needs at checkout, and every purchase carries a 100% money-back guarantee for 30 days.

InteriorYou are here. Start your book. CoverThree complete designs. You choose. Copy EditingThree ways to work, your voice kept. Marketing Kitaround 30 pieces, written from your book.

Why We Built This

A note from Tracy Atkins, founder

Fifteen years ago, my team and I started BookDesignTemplates.com because first-time authors kept telling us the same thing: I wrote the book, but I have no idea how to make it look like a real one. Since then more than 70,000 authors have trusted our designs, and more than 300,000 books have been published with our work inside them.

Cantos is the next step. It is not a gimmick that spits out AI slop for you to fix. It is a professionally trained book designer that reads every word you wrote and sets it with a craftsman's care, so your book looks made, not generated.

And your words stay yours. We claim no copyright on your book. We never use your manuscript to train AI. We built this for authors, by people who have spent their lives around books. You bring the story. We help you cross the finish line.

Tracy Atkins, founder

Before You Upload

The questions every author asks us first.

Is my manuscript safe and private?

Yes. Your manuscript is sent over a secure, encrypted connection only for the moment it takes Cantos to design your pages. We never sell, license, or share it with anyone. You can delete your files or your entire account at any time, permanently, from your account page.

Will my book be used to train AI?

No. Never. The AI providers we work with operate under contracts that expressly prohibit using your manuscript to train their models. Your words are yours. This is the promise we take most seriously.

What does it cost?

You choose what your book needs (interior, cover, copy editing, the marketing kit; bundles apply automatically) and pay at checkout, starting at $99.99. Then Cantos builds the whole book in the design and trim you picked. Your print-ready files are yours, and each part comes with revision passes for the changes you want.

What if I don't like it?

Tell Cantos what to change: every book comes with a generous pool of revision passes, so you can ask for changes on Revise until it is right. And every purchase carries a 100% money-back guarantee for 30 days: ask for a refund from your Account page, under Purchase History, within 30 days and you get back everything you paid, no questions asked (one refund per account). A refund returns the whole purchase, so the files it paid for stop being available.

Do I keep the rights to my book?

Completely. BookDesignerAI claims no copyright on your book, ever. The small optional "Design Assisted by BookDesignerAI" credit on the copyright page is yours to keep or remove with one checkbox. Your work is yours, start to finish.

What kinds of books can Cantos format?

Text-forward books, both fiction and non-fiction: novels, memoirs, business and leadership, self-help, how-to. It even handles the hard things that break ordinary tools, like footnotes, endnotes, tables, and numbered lists that stay numbered. It is not built for children's picture books, cookbooks, or heavily illustrated books.

You wrote the book.Now watch it become a real one.