R. Halloway came to Margin & Fold with a finished manuscript, a strong sense of pacing, and no fixed idea of what the interior should look like. The brief was simple: a page that felt literary and unhurried, without slowing the reader down.

The typeface, leading, and margins were chosen to support long reading sessions — this is a 318-page novel meant to be read in a handful of sittings. Chapter openers use a restrained drop cap and generous white space rather than illustration, keeping the focus on the prose.

Because the book was going to both Amazon KDP and IngramSpark, the file was built once and validated against both platforms' specifications before final delivery — including separate bleed and spine calculations for each printer.