A5 Book Typesetting & Layout

A 21-chapter spiritual prosperity guide using shamanic journeying and spirit animal guides. Warm, personal, gentle. Sits between The Alchemist and You Can Heal Your Life on a shelf. The feel should be: intimate, premium, contemplative — not clinical or corporate.

32,059 words · ~220–250 pages · Perfect bound paperback

What's Inside

Front matter: Copyright · Dedication · Prologue · How to Use This Book · Table of Contents

Body: Three Parts (Part One: Chapters 1–7 · Part Two: Chapters 8–14 · Part Three: Chapters 15–21)

Each chapter contains:

Chapter title + one epigraph quote
Narrative prose (shamanic journey) start
Image meeting the Animal Guide
Narrative prose (shamanic journey) Continued-Finish
Growth Work for Home Play (simple language Homework) for that chapter (5 sub-sections: Reflections · One Action · Discussion/Journal · Spirit Animal Insight · Affirmation)

Back matter: Conclusion · How to Meet a Spirit Animal · Acknowledgements · Quotable Quotes · About the Author · Other Books

Illustrations

21 full-page illustrations — one per chapter, showing the author, the Hare, and the chapter's spirit animal guide. Each should feel like a ceremonial chapter opener. Supplied separately as high-resolution files.

Technical Requirements
Trim size A5 (5.83" × 8.26")
Print colour interiors
Paper 55lb cream/off-white (if offset)
Output Print-ready Word+PDF +epub

The Affirmation must feel like a closing ritual — visually prominent, centered, never orphaned.

Full print-ready PDF/X-1a (single pages, all fonts embedded, 300 DPI images)
Reflowable EPUB3 with linked Table of Contents
Working design file (InDesign or Affinity Publisher) with links folder
One-page style guide for future reference