You might have noticed that this looks a lot like the PDF made from the Scribus template I put in my previous post. I made this PDF from the template: basic_novel_LibreOffice. The template is for a basic novel in the 9×6 format.

If you try this, beware! Basic Novel LibreOffice template The switch to Word might mess up the formatting. Newer versions of MS Word are alleged to open. The purpose of this post is make a template available to the LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) community. Some of these cost $3o or $40, but they are available. There are templates for MS Word already available on the web. (Need I say more?) If you haven’t made the switch, go ahead and download it. LibreOffice is a fully-featured office suite for Linux, Mac, Windows and other operating systems. In this post I provide a LibreOffice template for a basic novel. If you must use your word processor, do a good job of it.

It is better to use a graphics design program such as the open source (and free) Scribus or the $$$ Adobe InDesign, but these programs have steep learning curves. Using your word processor can lead to a shoddy job (see Book Interior Design: Tips to Avoid the Amateur Look). If you want to do it yourself, if you can’t afford to pay someone to do it for you, or if you are trying to cut the costs of producing our book to the bone (see Twelve Tips: How to Reduce the Cost of Your Self-Published Book), then you might be tempted to use a program you know: your trusty word processor. You can pay someone large bucks to do it or you can do it yourself. You’ve just finished your soon-to-be-best-selling novel and now you need to produce the interior of your novel in PDF format so you can ship it off to Amazon and become famous, not to mention, rich.

Libreoffice database template