You finished the book. Getting it into the world is a different job, with its own rules, file formats and rejections. That part is mine.
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I will not tell you your book is going to sell.
Anyone who promises you that is selling you something. What I promise is a book produced to professional standard and distributed everywhere it should be — Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Audible, libraries and the rest. What happens after that depends on your book and on the work you put into telling people it exists. I will tell you honestly what I think your chances are.
Flat rates, quoted before we start. You keep your copyright, your ISBNs, your retail accounts and every penny of your royalties. I am not your publisher and I take no share of your sales.
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Ebook Interior formatting, copyright page, table of contents, ISBN registration, and setup on Amazon Kindle and Draft2Digital for Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Scribd and library systems. | $700 |
| Paperback Trim sizing, mirrored margins and gutter, print-ready interior, spine width calculation, cover wrap specification, and setup on Amazon KDP and Lulu. | $900 |
| Audiobook Full narration production, chapter mastering, square cover art, rights documentation, and submission to distributors reaching Audible, Spotify, Apple, Chirp, Hoopla, OverDrive and fifty more platforms. | $1,800 |
| All three, one project The complete job — print, digital and audio — produced together so the metadata, covers and ISBNs agree across every edition. | $2,900 |
Cover design is billed at the designer's cost plus a flat coordination fee. Editing is not included — if your manuscript needs an editor I will say so before taking the job, and point you to one.
You are never handed a login and left to figure it out. I do the work and show you each piece before it goes live.
Word document is fine. I read it, tell you what shape it is in, and quote you a flat price and a timeline.
Every format needs its own ISBN. I register them in your name so you own them, and set up the copyright page correctly.
Interior formatting, cover coordination, audio if you want it. You approve a proof of each before anything is submitted.
Retail accounts, metadata, pricing and territory settings. This is where most books stall, and where the unglamorous experience matters.
Accounts in your name, files in your hands, and a written record of every ISBN and platform. If you never speak to me again, nothing breaks.
I publish my own books and I have made every mistake on my own titles first. What you are paying for is not a course or a template. It is someone who has already been through the parts that stop people.
Distributors reject files for reasons nobody warns you about — the wrong project type, the wrong file format, missing rights documentation. I have worked through all of it and know what they actually want.
Spine widths that do not match the page count. Margins that swallow the text at the gutter. Covers rejected for a mismatched title. Small things, every one of them enough to stop a book.
Your ISBNs, your copyright, your accounts, your royalties. No contract signing away rights, no percentage, no exclusivity. I am a service, not a publisher.
No obligation and no payment to start the conversation. Tell me what you have written and what you want to do with it, and I will tell you honestly what it would take.