Vellum Software

This post could be described as an ode to Vellum software. It is used to format books and move them instantly into any of the many available formats for publishing, in paper or digital format. Oh my goodness, what a gift!!! To those of you who designed it and made it available to authors, proofreaders and editors, deepest thanks!

Vellum is said to be very easy to use. That is an understatement. The choices there for font, format, etc. are all elegant and limited. One points and clicks, and there it happens in the blink of an eye.

Vellum is said to be expensive. I don’t think so, especially as I went through a long corridor in Hades formatting my last books (with errors) for digital and then paperback formats. That was the very worst aspect of self-publishing and I am willing to be that many authors similarly situated would say the same. Vellum, which is not aware that I am writing this and most definitely not paying me to do so, offers two packages for sale. One is more expensive than the other, and covers both paper and digital formats. There is none of that annual subscription nonsense that I dislike. You buy it and it’s yours. And away you go!

One last note: The author or editor or proofreader can make corrections in Vellum, i.e. it is not necessary to return to Word or Pages or wherever the manuscript was created. I love that. And yes, it is true that this software operates on a Macintosh computer only and not on others and not on mobile devices. Fine by me!