--- title: "Book writing software for a novel in Swedish" description: "Write and typeset a Swedish novel: ”right-facing quotes” as you type, hyphenation by Swedish rules, fifteen book faces and a print-ready PDF for Amazon or a Swedish printer." source: https://usegalley.com/book-writing-software-swedish --- # Book writing software for writing a novel in Swedish TL;DR Swedish quotes with a right-facing mark at both ends, and Galley types it because the quote pair follows the book's language. Hyphenation runs on Swedish patterns, å ä ö survive to the filename, and Amazon takes Swedish in all three formats. Svenska ## Skriva en roman på svenska Galley är där du skriver romanen och där du gör boken. Du skriver från första meningen på en riktig boksida: ditt format, dina marginaler, bokens typsnitt. Citattecknen är svenska, avstavningen följer svenska regler, och det finns femton boktypsnitt, alla fritt licensierade så att du får sälja det du trycker. Ut kommer en tryckfärdig PDF och en giltig EPUB. Gränssnittet är på engelska; boken är på svenska. ## Why Galley is the right book writing software for a novel in Swedish Swedish quotes with a right-facing double mark at both ends. Not the English open-and-close pair, not guillemets. Almost no writing tool knows that, because almost no writing tool asks what language the book is in before it decides how a straight quote should curl. Galley asks, and a Swedish book gets the Swedish pair as you type. Hyphenation is the second thing. Swedish compounds are long, and a justified Swedish page without hyphenation opens gaps. Galley carries Swedish patterns and uses them in the print PDF when you justify. Justification is off by default, so if you set ragged right the question never comes up. Third is the font licence, which most tools skip. Galley embeds the face inside your PDF and your EPUB, so every face on the shelf is one you are allowed to sell the book with. Everything else is the same app: a [true book page](https://usegalley.com/features/make-the-book) at your trim, the [story bible](https://usegalley.com/features/story-bible) beside the manuscript, a print-ready PDF and a valid EPUB. ## How Swedish gets typeset **Hyphenation follows Swedish rules**, in the justified print PDF only. **Å ä ö go all the way through**, including into the download filename, so a book called Långa Skuggor arrives under its own name. **Sorting is Swedish**, which matters more here than in most languages: å ä ö come after z in the Swedish alphabet, and a cast list sorted the English way puts them in the wrong place entirely. **Italics work**, on a drawn italic in every one of the fifteen faces. ## The typefaces you get for Swedish Fifteen faces, all under the [SIL Open Font License](https://openfontlicense.org/). **EB Garamond** is the safe first choice for a novel. ![Sample sentence in EB Garamond](https://usegalley.com/images/specimens/eb-garamond-en.png) **Source Serif 4** comes out of Fournier and sets a clean, even page. ![Sample sentence in Source Serif 4](https://usegalley.com/images/specimens/source-serif-en.png) **Vollkorn** is warmer and a little heavier, and it holds at small sizes. ![Sample sentence in Vollkorn](https://usegalley.com/images/specimens/vollkorn-en.png) The rest of the shelf: Crimson Pro, Cormorant, Lora, Libre Baskerville, Literata, Spectral, Alegreya, Cardo, Gentium Book Plus, Newsreader, Libre Caslon Text and Charis SIL. The [typeface documentation](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design#typeface) lists every face by language. ## Exports for a Swedish novel - **Print-ready PDF** at your trim, mirrored margins, real gutter, font embedded. - **EPUB 3** with your cover, tagged `sv`. - **Store-ready EPUBs** for Kindle, Kobo and Apple Books. - **Word and Markdown** for a redaktör or an archive. - **Manuscript format**, double-spaced. - **A proofreading PDF** two pages to a sheet, and a **large print PDF**. - **A watermarked copy per beta reader**. The [KDP preflight](https://usegalley.com/docs/publishing#preflight) checks the file first. ## Swedish punctuation The quote pair you get automatically. The other Swedish habit is the talstreck, a dash at the head of the line opening speech, which a great deal of Swedish fiction uses in place of quoting at all. It is a character you type and it comes through untouched. The [dialogue punctuation rules](https://usegalley.com/resources/dialogue-punctuation-rules) and [dashes, hyphens and ellipses](https://usegalley.com/resources/dashes-hyphens-and-ellipses) sheets cover the general cases. ## How long a Swedish novel is Swedish publishers quote length in words and in printed pages. Swedish fiction sits broadly where English does for adult literary and commercial work, between 80,000 and 100,000 words, and Swedish crime, which is the export, often runs longer. The [word count to page count converter](https://usegalley.com/resources/word-count-to-page-count) and [novel word counts by genre](https://usegalley.com/resources/novel-word-count-by-genre) do the sums. ## Trim sizes for a Swedish book Six standards, from mass market at 4.25×6.87 inches to Royal at 6.14×9.21. The Swedish pocket runs near 11×17.8cm, close to mass market, and the trade format around 13.5×21.5cm, between the Digest at 5.5×8.5 inches and Royal. The [spine width calculator](https://usegalley.com/resources/book-spine-width-calculator) and the [trim size comparison](https://usegalley.com/resources/book-trim-size-comparison) would be helpful here. ## Metadata and the copyright page The [copyright page](https://usegalley.com/docs/publishing#copyright-page) writes itself from the metadata you filled in. A Swedish ISBN comes from the Kungliga biblioteket, and registering the book in Bokinfo is what puts it in front of Swedish shops and libraries. ## Translating into or out of Swedish A translation in Galley is its own book: its own language, its own typeface shelf, its own ISBN, its own cover, still linked to the original, with the editor split so the original sits read-only beside what you write. There are pages on [writing a novel in Danish](https://usegalley.com/book-writing-software-danish), [writing a novel in Norwegian](https://usegalley.com/book-writing-software-norwegian) and [writing a novel in Finnish](https://usegalley.com/book-writing-software-finnish). No machine touches the prose. Galley has [no AI anywhere near your writing](https://usegalley.com/blog/no-ai-in-your-prose). ## Self-publishing and traditional publishing in Swedish **Self-publishing.** Amazon takes Swedish in all three formats. amazon.se is newer than the other European stores, and the Swedish market still runs heavily through Adlibris and Bokus, which take a book through a distributor rather than directly. The same print PDF works for all of them. **Traditional publishing.** Swedish houses read submissions directly more often than Anglophone ones do. The [submission package](https://usegalley.com/docs/publishing#where-it-goes) assembles the synopsis, the bio and the opening chapters. The same book exports both. The longer arguments are in [Galley for self-publishing](https://usegalley.com/blog/galley-for-self-publishing) and [Galley for traditional publishing](https://usegalley.com/blog/galley-for-traditional-publishing). ## Where to go next - [Writing software for novelists who don’t write in English](https://usegalley.com/blog/write-a-novel-in-your-language) covers every script Galley sets. - [Book design and typefaces](https://usegalley.com/docs/book-design#typeface) lists every face by language. - [Series and translations](https://usegalley.com/docs/series-and-translations) covers the full language list. - [Choosing a trim size](https://usegalley.com/blog/choosing-a-trim-size) is the longer argument on format. ## Questions people ask about writing a novel in Swedish ### Does Galley type Swedish quotation marks? Yes. Swedish sets a right-facing double mark at both ends, and that is what a straight quote becomes in a Swedish book. The rule follows the book's language. ### Does Galley hyphenate Swedish? Yes, on Swedish patterns, and only in the print PDF when you justify. Justification is off by default. ### Can I sell a Swedish book on Amazon KDP? Yes, in all three formats: Kindle ebook, paperback and hardcover. ### Do å, ä and ö survive export? Yes, through typing, autosave, search, the print PDF, the EPUB, the Word file and the download filename. ## Other languages - [Book writing software for Danish](https://usegalley.com/book-writing-software-danish)Write and typeset a Danish novel: »reversed guillemets« as you type, hyphenation by Danish rules, fifteen book faces and a print-ready PDF for Amazon or a Danish printer. - [Book writing software for Norwegian](https://usegalley.com/book-writing-software-norwegian)Write and typeset a Norwegian novel in Bokmål or Nynorsk: guillemets as you type, hyphenation for both written standards, fifteen book faces and a print-ready PDF. - [Book writing software for Finnish](https://usegalley.com/book-writing-software-finnish)Write and typeset a Finnish novel: the right quote pair as you type, hyphenation that copes with agglutination, fifteen book faces and a print-ready PDF for Amazon or a Finnish printer. Start the book. Galley sets it in Swedish from the first sentence to the print PDF. [Launch Galley](https://app.usegalley.com)