Professional Services for Independent Authors

There’s more to being an author than printing books, which is why we offer a full suite of services to meet your needs. Whether you are early in the process and need an editor, want to offer an ebook to cover the whole marketplace, or you still need to create an author website, our highly skilled team is here to help. We’ve outlined our most popular services below, but feel free to get in touch if you don’t see what you need.

Cover Design

 Starting at $499 

A great book cover is your single most important marketing tool. You simply cannot afford to blend into the background, and our experienced design team knows what works. With our custom cover design service, we start by asking for your ideas. After all, you are the expert on your book. After that, a professional designer will create two unique concepts (no templates here) and you will work from there to perfect your vision.

Whether it’s a thrilling novel that needs to jump right off the shelf, or a nonfiction book that must establish authority, our designers have years of experience working in all genres. The result? A book you’ll want judged by its cover.

Click here to see some examples of our work!

Interior Layout

 Starting at $399 

If you are thinking about printing, chances are you’ve had your manuscript professionally laid out by a designer. If you haven’t, we are here to help! Our team of designers can work with you to format your manuscript for production. Even if you have press-ready files and you’re simply looking for adjustments, we can help with that too.

Need a little more assistance? No problem. Along with ensuring your files meet our printers’ requirements, our designers can also typeset your manuscript. Typesetting is when professional designers arrange the text you’ve created into the appropriate font, layout, size, etc. A beautiful, easy-to-read book is crucial to your success as an independent author, and our experts are at your disposal. Even better? You own everything we create. Final product to source files—it’s all yours.

Not sure if you need help with interior layout? We have guidelines on how to submit your manuscript, or you can take our press-ready quiz found here.

Distribution

 Starting at $1499 

You already know that we leverage our professional relationships with the industry’s best printers to give you their lowest prices, but we can also bring the power of a publisher to book distribution! No need to worry about warehousing your inventory or getting your marketing plan in front of book buyers all by yourself. With our distribution service, your book is made available via the country’s biggest distributor and will be available to retail stores through established wholesalers. Your book will also be available online through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and more.

You’ve done the work writing your book; let us make sure it gets in front of readers. Learn more about the distribution process today.

Ebook Conversion

 Starting at $299 

In today’s publishing marketplace, having your work available in ebook form is almost a necessity. With countless people reading on Kindles, Nooks, tablets, and smartphones, this is a market every author is wise to consider. Our ebook conversion service will transform your manuscript into both MOBI and EPUB files, which means it’s available for every device and platform. If you are interested in ebook distribution, our vast network includes Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Apple’s iBookstore, and over 120 international online retailers.

The best part is that we don’t require any preformatting before you submit it. Since your ebook will be hand-formatted by an ebook professional, we take care of all the work. This also means we can handle complicated formats and offer all sorts of enhanced formatting features others won’t take on. These ebook features include a nested table of contents, drop caps, color text, and much more.

We also offer a fixed-layout format for books that might otherwise be difficult to make into an ebook. This layout lets us anchor images and text on the screen, just like they appear on your page. We can even accommodate beautiful two-page layouts. Fixed layouts are ideal for illustrated children’s books, cookbooks, graphic novels, or any book that is heavily designed. Fixed-layout ebooks can be distributed with Apple’s iBookstore and, in most cases, with Amazon.com. Get in touch to find out more!

Editing

 Starting at $0.02/word 

If you want a professional book, there is just no way to skip this step. While there’s nothing wrong with having family or friends review your book, that just won’t give you the unbiased, professional feedback you truly need. Our staff of expert book editors will do just that. It’s their job to make sure the best version of your work goes to the presses. 

We offer two levels of editing: a Basic Copyedit and a Comprehensive. In the Basic Copyedit the editor will delete any visible inconsistencies in your manuscript as well as fix sentence-structure errors. The editor will also correct errors in well-known facts and confirm whether permission is needed in situations where intellectual property has been taken from another source. The Comprehensive Edit includes a copyedit as well as an additional round of developmental feedback to really dig into the story and its structure.

Learn more about our breakdown of editing costs.

Marketing

 Starting at $499 

As important as it is to have an edited book and an enticing cover, it is just as important to have a plan for how you will promote your book. Although marketing has a tendency to be overlooked in the scope of publishing, it can make all the difference to the success of your book. Our team of marketing and publicity professionals has worked with hundreds of authors, so they know what marketing strategies are the best options for each book.

Contact us for a custom quote.

Author Website

 Starting at $699 

It’s a simple truth that readers these days are finding and buying books online. You need to be there too. That’s why you should let our team of professional website designers create a robust, professional-looking author website for you. We’ll include everything you need, from an author page, to book excerpts, to an image gallery. When we’re done, you will either get full control of your site with FTP access, giving you the power to make updates, revisions, and even create new pages without having to go through us or you’ll get limited control through our WordPress-powered content management system. You don’t need to know HTML or any other coding language to use the limited content management system. All you will need is an Internet browser and you can start building a connection with your readers!

Learn more about our author websites here.