Book Publishing

Kickoff Call (up to 2 hours): during this call we will review all the elements of the publishing process to clarify your vision and preferences for design, required steps (such as getting endorsements, ISBNs, permissions and pricing)

Interior Comps Call (45 min): When the initial design concepts for the interior of your book are ready, we will hop on a call to review options, explore your design preferences, and make a plan for revision.

Cover Comps Call (45 min): When the initial concepts for the cover of your book are ready, we’ll hop on a call to review options, explore your preferences, and make a plan for your desired revisions.

Marketing Call (90 minutes): During this call, we will explore your marketing options and come up with a customized plan for marketing your book. While this service doesn’t include our involvement in the execution of this plan, we serve as advisors to help you develop a marketing plan that fits your needs, desires, and preferences.

Wrap up Call: (1 hour) celebration, managing your accounts moving forward, next steps in marketing/ambassadorship

Your ISBN numbers for your book (in each format)

This is the process of taking your Microsoft Word document and transforming it into the actual interior of your book. This aspect of the service includes working in house (for simpler designs) or with a preferred interior designer (for more complex or customized designs). We will develop 3 to 5 comps, or design options for your review. We’ll hop on a call to go over the designs and determine your preferences. We will then bring the entire manuscript into interior formatting. You’ll receive a final proof to review and approve.

We have an exclusive partnership with a book cover design team that also serves major publishing houses. Included in the Publishing Partnership is the design of your book cover and all the coordination necessary with the design team. You tell us your design needs and preferences, we coordinate with the designers, we have a call together to review the first design concepts and plan desired revisions, and coordinate the completion of the final design. This cost includes the ISBN numbers you will need to publish your book in each format (e.g. eBook, paperback, hardcover, audiobook).

We set up your accounts and set up your book titles with our three preferred publishing platforms. This will make your book accessible on Amazon, all major online book retailers, and eBook distributors. We will also launch your book on the platform that all brick and mortar book stores order their titles on. We will order a proof of your books before your publication date to ensure everything looks amazing as the book makes its transition from a digital proof to an actual physical book. We’ll also teach you how to use the platforms to order books and track royalties.

You’ll have access to our team throughout our active partnership period. This allows us to have regular check-ins to offer you support with next-step execution. This keeps the process streamlined and headed in the right direction. We offer support Monday through Thursday with a 24 to 48 hour reply time.

We set up and share with you an easy-to-use professional project management tool that will help us coordinate and execute on all the steps of the self-publishing process together.  Here, you will also have access to private client tools, templates, and resources.  Examples of these include resources on getting endorsements, writing the front and back matter of your book, writing your book description, and so on.

Editing and Proofreading: We do require that all manuscripts we support in publishing receive all levels of editing, including a final proofread, prior entering the Publishing Partnership Program. We do not allow for revisions to be made to a manuscript once it enters the design phase. Please see our Editing Services page for more details.

Crowdfunding Campaign: We are also available to support you through creating a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for authors, which is an amazing way to create the capital you need to self-publish your book, and pre-sell and market your book. Jaime, our founder, successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign for her book Birth Your Story, raising five figures in capital to support the editing, design and publication phases of her book.

Website copy review: We can review and advise on your website structure and copy. We can also direct you to preferred and vetted website designers.

Indexing: This is a service we contract out to a specialist.

Additional marketing support: we can offer a review of your email nurture sequence, opt-ins, and similar marketing efforts. We can advise on and review your magazine, podcast, and other media platform pitches. We can also refer you to teams that specialize in executing book marketing strategy.

Audiobook production: We partner with a great audiobook recording, production, editing and distribution team. You’ll have the option to narrate the book yourself (we’ll walk you through everything you need to do this from your own home) or hire a professional narrator for your book.