Publishing Services for Independent Authors

Every book reaches us at a different stage. Some arrive as a draft that needs a real edit. Others are finished and waiting on a cover, a layout, and a way into stores. Take the service your book needs right now and add the rest when it calls for them.

Book Editing

Editing runs in three passes, and you can take all of them or only the one your book actually needs. Developmental editing deals with the larger problems, such as a chapter that runs long, an argument that loses its thread, or a character who stops behaving like himself in the third act. Line editing works at sentence level on rhythm, repetition, and clarity. Proofreading is the final sweep for spelling, punctuation, and consistency before the file locks.

Everything comes back to you tracked, so you can see each change and accept or reject it yourself. Your editor also sends an editorial letter that explains the reasoning behind the bigger suggestions, and you get a call afterward to work through anything you disagree with.

What You Get

  • Developmental, line, & proofreading passes, priced separately
  • Tracked changes in Word or Google Docs
  • An editorial letter covering structure & pacing
  • A style sheet recording spellings, names, & formatting choices


Best for:
manuscripts that are written but not yet ready for a reader.

Cover Design

We start with research rather than a mood board. Our designers pull the current bestsellers in your category, look at what those covers signal to someone browsing quickly, then build something that belongs on the same shelf without imitating anything already on it. You see three original concepts and tell us which direction feels closest.

From there we refine the chosen concept across two rounds of revisions and produce every file the printers and retailers ask for. That includes a full wrap for paperback and hardcover, sized against your final page count and paper stock, plus flat front covers for the ebook and audiobook listings.

What You Get

  • Category research & three original concepts
  • Two rounds of revisions on the direction you choose
  • Print-ready wrap files for paperback & hardcover
  • Front cover files sized for Kindle, Apple Books, & ACX


Best for:
authors who need a cover that works on a shelf & at thumbnail size.

Interior Formatting

Print interiors are typeset by hand instead of being run through a template. Margins, gutters, running heads, chapter openers, drop caps, and page numbers all get set against your trim size and the kind of book you have written. A literary novel and an illustrated business title need different treatment on the page, and each one gets it.

Ebook files are built separately so the text reflows properly at any size. We check the result on Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, and a phone before delivery, and we fix the faults that break most self-made files, including broken tables of contents, stray page breaks, and images that refuse to scale.

What You Get

  • A hand-typeset print interior in your chosen trim size
  • Print-ready PDF with correct margins, bleed, & page numbering
  • EPUB file tested across the major reading apps
  • A linked table of contents & clean chapter breaks

 

Best for: finished manuscripts heading to print, digital, or both.

Print & eBook Publishing

We handle the setup end of publishing, which is where most first-time authors lose weeks. That covers creating or configuring your accounts on Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Barnes and Noble Press, and Apple Books, then loading the files, writing the retail page copy, and picking the categories and keywords that put the book in front of the right shoppers.

We also order and read physical proofs before anything goes on sale, because print color and trim rarely match what you saw on screen. Your accounts stay in your name the whole time. You keep the copyright, the ISBNs, and every royalty payment, and you can move the whole setup elsewhere whenever you want to.

What You Get

  • Account setup across print & ebook retailers
  • ISBN registration & full metadata entry
  • Retail page copy, category placement, & keyword selection
  • Physical proof ordered & reviewed before launch


Best for:
authors who want distribution handled without signing away ownership.

Audiobook Production

We shortlist narrators who suit your book and send you auditions of the same passage, so you are comparing like with like. Once you pick someone, we agree on pacing, tone, and a pronunciation list for names and invented terms before the first session. That step alone prevents most of the re-recording that slows audiobooks down.

Recording takes place in a treated studio with a director in the session. The audio is then mastered to retail specification for peak level, noise floor, and room tone, proofed line by line against the manuscript, and submitted to ACX and Findaway so it reaches Audible, Apple, Spotify, and library systems.

What You Get

  • Narrator shortlist with audition recordings for the same passage
  • Directed studio recording of the full book
  • Mastering to ACX & wider retail audio standards
  • Submission & distribution across the audio platforms


Best for:
nonfiction, memoir, & fiction with an active listening audience.

Marketing & Distribution

Marketing starts with research into what your readers already search for and buy. We map keywords and categories, study the titles competing for the same attention, and set your launch price and promotional calendar against them. That work happens in the weeks before release rather than after sales have gone quiet.

Around launch we build the press kit, write the retail page copy, run outreach to reviewers and podcasts in your category, and set up paid campaigns on Amazon and Meta. Campaigns are managed and adjusted every month, and you receive a report that shows sales, spend, and what we changed since the last one.

What You Get

  • Keyword, category, & competitor research
  • Press kit with author bio, sample chapters, & images
  • Review & podcast outreach within your genre
  • Managed Amazon & Meta campaigns with monthly reporting


Best for:
books that are ready to publish & need readers to find them.

Not Sure Where to Start

Send the manuscript or a sample chapter and tell us what has been done to it already. We will read it, tell you what the book needs next, and quote for that alone. The review costs nothing and commits you to nothing afterward.