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Made with Custom Book Studio

Real books.
Made by you.

Every book below was designed, jacketed and printed end-to-end with Custom Book Studio — no design skills required. Explore a few, then start your own free.

Children's storybooks are open to make today — cookbooks, art books, pet books and more are on the way.

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Pizza Pete — a book made with Custom Book Studio

Read-aloud picture book

Pizza Pete

A little boy with a big dream and a squishy ball of dough for a best friend. Every scene sculpted in felted wool, then printed and bound as a real 10 × 10 in hardcover — start to finish with Custom Book Studio.

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How Pizza Pete was made

A whole world, made of felt

Pete could have been drawn any way at all. We picked one look — soft needle-felted wool, warm kitchen light, everything hand-made — and locked it before a single page, so the boy, the dough and the little pizzeria are unmistakably the same in every scene.

Design direction

A children’s picture-book world sculpted entirely from needle-felted wool and soft clay — a small boy in a chef’s hat, a round ball of dough wearing a gingham bandana, a village pizzeria with a glowing brick oven — warm daylight, gentle depth of field.

Pizza Pete cover concept — The dust jacket — back cover, spine and front, printed as one flat piece.

Highlight · Meet Doughboy

One prompt → a finished spread

Each spread is illustrated as a single painting running across both pages. Only then is the story line read against the picture and set into whatever open space the art left — here, the clear wall above the flour.

Prompt

Pete’s ball of dough springs to life in a puff of flour and introduces itself, arms out and grinning, while Pete claps with delight across the kitchen bench — needle-felted wool, warm morning light.

Pizza Pete — Meet Doughboy page — Pages 8–9 — one painting across the gutter, the line placed into the open space above it.

Real spreads from the finished book

Facing pages joined exactly as they sit when the book falls open — same wool, same light, page after page.

Pizza Pete spread — Pages 2–3 — Pages 2–3 open spread — pages joined

Pizza Pete spread — Pages 18–19 — Pages 18–19 open spread — pages joined

Print-ready, cover to cover

The same world wraps the physical book — the printed case under the jacket, and the patterned sheets that open and close it. Both built to the exact trim, bleed and spine we manufacture from.

Pizza Pete — Casewrap — the printed case under the jacket. — Casewrap — the printed case under the jacket.

Pizza Pete — Endpapers — a repeating pattern of its own. — Endpapers — a repeating pattern of its own.

Classic Cocktails — a book made with Custom Book Studio

Recipe & gift book

Classic Cocktails

A timeless Art-Deco hardcover of fifty essential cocktails — the kind of book you give and never forget. Designed, jacketed and printed end-to-end with Custom Book Studio.

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How Classic Cocktails was made

It starts with one idea

Before a single page, we lock the book’s identity. For Classic Cocktails that was a timeless Art-Deco look — deep midnight navy and gold — and every page that follows inherits it.

Design direction

A flat, full-bleed, print-ready cover for a luxury cocktail recipe book — deep midnight-navy ground, fine gold Art-Deco linework, a single elegant coupe at the centre.

Classic Cocktails cover concept — The dust jacket — the book’s first impression.

Highlight · The Negroni

One prompt → a finished spread

Every cocktail becomes two facing pages: a recipe typeset automatically from a simple list, and a matching photograph generated by AI — composed to the same look across all fifty.

Prompt

A full-bleed photograph of a Negroni in a rocks glass with a large ice cube and an orange twist, on a marble café table in a sun-washed Italian street.

Classic Cocktails — The Negroni page — The recipe page it set — shown inside the print template.

Classic Cocktails — The Negroni page — The photograph it rendered.

Real spreads from the finished book

Recipe page meets photograph — joined here exactly as they sit when the book falls open.

Classic Cocktails spread — Old Fashioned — Old Fashioned open spread — pages joined

Classic Cocktails spread — Margarita — Margarita open spread — pages joined

Classic Cocktails spread — Espresso Martini — Espresso Martini open spread — pages joined

Print-ready, cover to cover

The same identity wraps the physical book — every panel shown on the real print template: the exact bleed, trim, spine and safety guides we manufacture from.

Classic Cocktails Dust jacket on the print template — Dust jacket
The removable printed paper wrap — the book’s first impression on the shelf, with flaps that fold inside the covers.

Classic Cocktails Casewrap on the print template — Casewrap
The hard case underneath — artwork printed and laminated directly onto the cover boards, spine included.

Endpapers

The patterned sheets that open and close the book are generated from a single prompt, then laid into the real fold & paste-down template.

Prompt

A flat, full-bleed repeating endpaper pattern — deep midnight-navy with a fine linen texture and a minimal gold line-art motif of cocktail glassware.

Classic Cocktails endpaper on the actual template — The output, shown on the actual fold & paste-down template.

Dash — a book made with Custom Book Studio

Kids' picture book

Dash

A personalized adventure where your little one is the hero. A real hardcover picture book, made to keep — created with Custom Book Studio.

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How Dash was made

One hero, one look

A personalized storybook lives or dies on consistency. We lock a single warm, bold illustration style and one character — so Dash looks like Dash on every page.

Design direction

A friendly storybook hero: a small, brave raptor named Dash, warm hand-illustrated vector style, rich golden light — the same character, palette and line-weight on every page.

Highlight · Page one

One prompt → a finished page

Each page is illustrated by AI in the locked style, and the story text is rendered straight onto the art — no separate layout step.

Prompt

Dash the little raptor standing by a winding river at golden hour, lush green valley, warm storybook vector style — with the opening line set into the scene.

Dash — Page one page — A finished page — art and story text together, shown inside the print template.

Real spreads from the finished book

Consecutive pages joined as they fall open — the same character, page after page.

Dash spread — Pages 2–3 — Pages 2–3 open spread — pages joined

Dash spread — Pages 4–5 — Pages 4–5 open spread — pages joined

Print-ready, cover to cover

Cover art and endpapers wrap a real hardcover — every panel built inside the print template (bleed, trim & safety).

Dash — Casewrap — shown with print guides. — Casewrap — shown with print guides.

Dash — Endpapers. — Endpapers.

Watchers in Stone — a book made with Custom Book Studio

Coffee-table art book

Watchers in Stone

A landscape, dust-jacketed art book — fifty gargoyles reimagined in concrete. Gallery-grade printing and binding, made with Custom Book Studio.

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How Watchers in Stone was made

A look before a page

Watchers in Stone is a gallery art book, so it needed a gallery identity — stark, architectural, monochrome — carried across both printed covers. Here are the two pieces, each shown flat on its real print template.

Design direction

A dramatic monochrome engraving of a carved concrete gargoyle for a coffee-table art-book cover — bold, architectural, gallery-grade.

Watchers in Stone — Dust jacket — on the print template (flaps, bleed, trim & safety). — Dust jacket — on the print template (flaps, bleed, trim & safety).

Watchers in Stone — Casewrap — the hard case beneath, same template, with the spine. — Casewrap — the hard case beneath, same template, with the spine.

Highlight · Le Stryge

One prompt → a plate and its page

Each gargoyle is a photoreal AI render facing a full page of AI-written prose — composed to the same look across all fifty.

Prompt

A full-bleed photograph of a carved concrete gothic chimera resting its chin on its hands — weathered grey stone, brooding, unmistakably inanimate cast concrete.

Watchers in Stone — Le Stryge page — The prose page it wrote — inside the print template.

Watchers in Stone — Le Stryge page — The plate it rendered.

Real spreads from the finished book

Prose page meets plate — joined here exactly as they sit when the book falls open.

Watchers in Stone spread — The Devourer · Amiens — The Devourer · Amiens open spread — pages joined

Watchers in Stone spread — Beauvais Beast — Beauvais Beast open spread — pages joined

Print-ready, cover to cover

The artwork wraps a landscape hardcover — every panel built inside a real print template (bleed, trim & safety).

Watchers in Stone — Casewrap — shown with print guides. — Casewrap — shown with print guides.

Watchers in Stone — Endpapers. — Endpapers.

Your words, your way

Every line lands where the art has room.

The illustration is painted first. Then the words are read against it and set into the open space — never across a face, never outside the safe area. They arrive as their own editable layer, so nothing is welded into the picture.

A page from Pizza Pete before the words are placed — open sky above falling pizza slices — 1 · The illustration

The same page with the story line set into the open sky — 2 · The words, set into the sky

Because the placement follows the picture, no two pages are set the same way. Three pages from Pizza Pete:

Pizza Pete page with the story line placed high across the sky — Into the sky. The family fills the lower half, so the words take the open blue above them.

Pizza Pete page with the story line centred on the empty wall above the counter — Into the wall. A quiet page — the line sits centred in the largest empty area it can find.

Pizza Pete final page with the closing line placed low across the artwork — Along the foot. The sign owns the top of the page, so the closing line drops to the bottom.

Fund the print run

Sell the book before you print it.

A finished book doesn't have to sit and wait for a print bill. Put it on a campaign page instead: you set the price, a copy goal and a deadline, then share one link. Readers back it at your price and are charged there and then. Reach the goal and the run goes to press — miss it and every backer is refunded in full, automatically. Nobody ends up with a garage full of unsold books.

A Custom Book Studio campaign page for Pizza Pete — the 3D book on the left, price and checkout on the right — An example campaign page. The buyer spins the real book, reads it cover to cover, and checks out — all on one page.

Campaign progress bar reading 97 of 150 copies backed, 65 percent — While it runs. Backers see exactly where the run stands, when it closes, and what happens if it doesn't get there.

Campaign progress bar reading 168 of 150 copies backed, 112 percent, goal reached — Once it's funded. The goal is a floor, not a ceiling — the page keeps selling until the deadline and the extra copies join the same run.

Three ways to sellCrowdfund a run, print on demand as orders arrive, or sell wholesale in cases of six.
Refunds are automaticIf a campaign closes short, every backer is refunded in full without anyone asking.
Nothing prints unseenEvery paid order is reviewed by us before it reaches the press, then handed to production.
You keep the bookThe story and the art stay yours. We take a 10% commission on sales, plus production cost.

Ships worldwide

One address in Toronto. Every address on Earth.

Books are printed, bound and packed at our Toronto facility on Galaxy Blvd. From there each parcel goes to Chit Chats, which consolidates Canadian outbound mail, moves it into the international network in bulk, and hands every parcel to the destination country's own postal service for the last mile — so a book to London is delivered by Royal Mail rather than by an international courier at international courier prices. Tracked end to end, with customs paperwork generated per parcel.

The box fits the bookParcel weight comes from the real thing — paper weight per leaf, case boards, binding — and a packing pass picks the fewest boxes that hold the order.
Priced live, never guessedCheckout rates your actual parcel with the carrier at that moment. What you see is what the shipment costs, packaging included.
Customs handledPrinted books carry their own tariff code and declared value on every international parcel, so nothing stalls at the border.

What it costs to send one book

Real rates from 51 Galaxy Blvd, Toronto — one 8 × 8 in hardcover, quoted 1 August 2026. All prices CAD.

Toronto, CanadaChit Chats Select · 2 business days$6.64
London, United KingdomInternational Tracked$14.92
New York, United StatesInternational Tracked$18.41
Berlin, GermanyInternational Tracked$18.02
Tokyo, JapanInternational Tracked$23.54
Sydney, AustraliaInternational Tracked$32.01

Country Postal / ZIP Copies

Estimates for a standard 8 × 8 in hardcover. Your book's own weight and box plan are rated at checkout.

Print-ready by default

What you design is what we manufacture.

Every page is built inside a real print template — bleed, trim and safety, exactly like the cyan guides above — then professionally printed, bound and finished. No surprises between the screen and the shelf.