Pre-Publication Services

Our first class editing and proofreading services can help you take your manuscript from draft to final polished product. Editing is available as basic copy/line editing and as more advanced developmental editing (where our editor will work with you to improve your writing, focusing on the flow and readability of your book, the continuity of your story or explanations, and ensuring that the book will deliver on reader expectations, as well as addressing basic spelling, grammar and sentence structure issues). We also offer a specialist historical fiction editing service, to help you ensure that your work is historically accurate, yet still relatable for the modern reader.

Proofreading

Proofreading, with no editing – simply the identification of spelling errors, wrong word usage, naming inconsistencies and major sentence construction issues. You will receive an annotated manuscript so that you can address the issues found.

Price: $7.50 per 1000 words

Basic Editing

Correction of basic spelling, grammar and sentence structure issues, review of the content of the book as a whole, to look at the readability and ease of understanding.  Major issues discussed with you, and an agreed edit made.

Price: $25 per 1000 words

Developmental Editing

Our editor will work with you to improve your writing, focusing on the flow and readability of your book, the continuity of your story or explanations, and ensuring that the book will deliver on reader expectations, as well as addressing basic spelling, grammar and sentence structure issues.  The editor may suggest significant adjustments to your work, to better engage the reader, or to better deliver on your stated business outcomes, and will work with you to achieve those changes in the final manuscript.

Price: $40 per 1000 words

Historical  Editing

Our editor will work with you to confirm your intent with historical detail, focusing on the accuracy and consistency of the historical information in your book, whilst optimising the readability,  and ensuring that the book will deliver on reader expectations for that genre.  The editor may suggest significant adjustments to your work, to better engage the reader, or to better deliver on the historical feel of the book, and will work with you to achieve those changes in the final manuscript.

Price: $60 per 5000 words

We can work with you to create a beautiful book interior design for your paperback, which reflects the personality of you / your business, and helps align your book with your brand.  Designs can be done for a single book, or to provide a common look and feel throughout a series.  We will consult with you about the design possibilities, your brand, your target reader audience, and your preferred colours etc, and provide up to 5 concepts for you to choose from, based on your needs and ideas.  We can either format your paperback with the final design, or provide you a design template into which you can insert your content.

Price:

Design service consultation plus provision of template – $120

Design Service consultation plus format your book with the final created design – Standard paperback formatting charge (as per above information) plus $80.

We can work with you to create a beautiful, attention getting, sales promoting book cover,  for your Kindle book or paperback, which reflects the personality of you / your business, and helps align your book with your brand. Designs can be done for a single book, or to provide a common look and feel throughout a series.  We will consult with you about the design possibilities, your brand, your target reader audience, and your preferred colours and images, and your fiction genre or non fiction topic area then provide up to 3 concepts for you to choose from, based on your needs and ideas.  The chosen design will then be finalised to suit your book size and the platform you will upload to.  You will be provided an upload ready file to suit your chosen platform, plus a number of .jpg or .png images suitable for use in book promotion advertising.

Price:

Cover for Kindle / ePub / PDF only – $80

(front cover only, intended for electronic distribution only)

Cover for paperback only – $125

(single platform- ie, Createspace, OR Ingram Spark or similar, Front cover, back cover and  spine as a single print ready file)

Adjustments to paperback cover to provide print ready files to suit multiple platforms – $20 per extra platform file required

Cover for both paperback and Kindle/ ePub / PDF, done at the same time – $150

Set of covers for a series of three or more books, if ordered at the same time – standard pricing per book x number of books, less 20%

This is a consultation to help you assess the suitability of existing information and specialist knowledge, within your business, for the creation and publication of a book. The consultation will cover:

• An initial questionnaire to capture the hidden ‘book content’ that already exists in your business
• A 60 minute Skype or phone call to discuss, one on one, your business, and how your content may suit publication
• A report summarizing the conclusions from the call
• Recommendations for how best to progress the creation of your book.

Price: $200