# Brochure maker: an illustrated booklet from one paragraph Chapbook is a brochure maker that writes, illustrates and typesets a short booklet. From one paragraph it plans 3 to 6 sections of a page each, 200 to 1,500 words in all, paints a picture for every page, and closes on a page with your address, dates and prices exactly as you gave them. Updated 30 October 2026. Web page: https://chapbook.ink/brochure-maker/ ## At a glance - Length: 200 to 1,500 words, 600 by default. - A first draft like World Book Day, at its planned chapter lengths, uses about 85 credits: planning, its 5 chapters, one read-through and one cover. ## Made with Chapbook: World Book Day World Book Day: A day of reading at Larkspur Books, by Larkspur Books. Brochure, 612 words, 6 pages. A sample generated from one brief and exported unedited; it is not a customer's book. Read every page: https://chapbook.ink/examples/bookshop/ The brief: > World Book Day at a twenty-year-old independent bookshop: morning readings, an afternoon binding workshop and an open evening. Promise: Know what is on, when, and where to find the shop. Reader: Someone who lives nearby, knows the shop by sight, and has never been to one of its events. Voice: First person plural, the shop speaking; short, friendly sections; a fictional shop, street and readers. The outline the planner proposed: 1. Start the Day with a Story (116 words) 2. Make a Book to Keep (137 words) 3. Twenty Years on Wren Street (118 words) 4. Stay for the Open Evening (128 words) 5. Find Us and Join Us (87 words) ## What a brochure is here A brochure in Chapbook is a booklet with one idea on each page. There is no title page, no introduction and no conclusion: it opens on the first thing you want someone to know, says it in at most two short paragraphs or one short list, and shows one picture. The last section is always for finding or contacting you. That shape comes from how a brochure gets read. Someone holds it for a minute, in a queue or between emails, and decides whether to come, call or forward it. The sample here, World Book Day, does this for a bookshop: a story to start the day, a book to make and keep, the shop's history, the open evening, then where to find it. ## Who it is for - **Shops, studios and venues** announcing an event, a season or an open day. - **Service businesses** that need something to send after a first call: what you do, who it suits, how to book. - **Marketers** who need a downloadable asset for a campaign this week, written as well as laid out. ## Your details stay yours A model will happily write a plausible phone number. So the address, dates, prices and contacts you give the assistant are saved as details the book must carry word for word, and the drafting instructions tell it to copy them exactly and never to make up a detail of that kind. They land on the last page, and you can correct any page by hand. Give it a link and the brochure also ends on a Next step page, unless you turn it off: a button to that link, and in the PDF a QR code for printed copies, so a paper copy still leads somewhere. ## How it works 1. **Write the brief.** What the brochure is for, who reads it, and every detail it must carry. 2. **Approve the outline.** Planning uses 10 credits. Each section's line names the picture it will carry. 3. **Choose the look.** It sets the type, the colors and how the pictures are painted, or describe your own. 4. **Draft, edit, export.** Each section uses at least 4 credits of writing and 5 for its picture. Export a typeset PDF, an EPUB, a Word document and a cover. ## What it does not do Chapbook has no canvas: you cannot drag a block across the page, because the layout follows from the look. It does not make tri-fold or gatefold panels, adds no bleed or crop marks, and has no paperback interior for this kind, so it is not the tool for a press-ready print run. If your pages are already written and you only need to arrange them, a design tool is the better choice. Pictures are generated, so they show the idea of your shop, not your actual shop. ## Questions ### How long is a brochure made with Chapbook? 200 to 1,500 words, 600 by default, in 3 to 6 sections of one page each, plus a last page for finding or contacting you. ### Will it get my address and prices right? Give the assistant your address, dates, prices and contact details and it saves them as details the book must carry word for word. Drafting copies them exactly and is told never to make up a detail of that kind. Check that last page anyway. ### Can I make a tri-fold brochure? No. A Chapbook brochure is a booklet of whole pages, read in order. It has no fold panels, and no bleed or crop marks for a commercial press. It suits a screen, an email and an office printer. ### Where do the pictures come from? Chapbook paints one for each section from what that section says, in the art direction of the look you choose, for 5 credits a picture. You can also ask for a brochure without pictures. ### What can I see before I pay? The outline and a watermarked draft, paid for by the 60 credits a new account gets once, with no card. A book of up to 2,500 words can be drafted whole if the credits cover it, and each picture uses credits too. ### Can I give the brochure away from a page? On a paid plan, yes. It gets a public book page where a reader signs up to download the PDF, and each sign-up lands in your Readers list, ready to export as CSV to your email tool.