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The Alliance of Independent Authors - Partner Member

Self-Publishing Services for Independent Authors

ebook and paperback formatting | cover design | editing and proofreading

The Alliance of Independent Authors - Partner Member

Self-Publishing Services for
Independent Authors

ebook and paperback formatting | cover design | editing and proofreading

For all major self-publishing sites

kindle direct publishing amazon KDP formatting
ingramspark formatting
apple books formatting
barnes and noble formatting
smashwords formatting

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Who We Are

As an independent author self-publishing a book, you want to know that you are in experienced hands.

For 20 years, we have been helping both independent and conventionally published authors get their books to market.

During that time we have learned editorial and formatting conventions that are centuries old, and we have ridden waves (both the ebb and flow) of new technologies in print and electronic publishing.

As a team, we have worked with some of the world’s largest fiction and nonfiction publishers and with many independent authors self-publishing their first book. We are members of the International Digital Publishing Forum and work directly with the major retailers and distributors, including Amazon KDP, Apple, Barnes & Noble, IngramSpark, and Books on Demand.

For all this experience, we treat every book as a new journey. Our role is to guide you through the self-publishing process as effortlessly as possible, to produce a final book that you are completely satisfied with. And we’ll charge you only when we reach this destination.

We offer interior formatting, ebook conversion, cover design, and editorial self-publishing services. We consult with you throughout to ensure the best services fit for your timeline and budget. We don’t sell “packages” or services that don’t add value or produce results, and we promise not to sell services you don’t need.

We respect your copyright and will always keep your content secure. All the files we produce for your book belong to you. We collect only the minimum personal information we need to provide services to you, and this information will never be given to any other company.

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Some Recent Titles

The Unlikely Spy: The true story of “Operation Lemonade” and the Capture of Soviet Spies

The Unlikely Spy: The true story of “Operation Lemonade” and the Capture of Soviet Spies

Ebooks, Pbooks
Hector, The Cat! Meets the New World Leprechauns

Hector, The Cat! Meets the New World Leprechauns

Ebooks, Pbooks
Walking in the Supernatural

Walking in the Supernatural

Ebooks, Pbooks
My Nigerian Man

My Nigerian Man

Ebooks, Pbooks
Blue Oasis No More

Blue Oasis No More

Ebooks
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Who We Are

As an independent author self-publishing a book, you want to know that you are in experienced hands.

For 20 years, we have been helping both independent and conventionally published authors get their books to market.

During that time we have learned editorial and formatting conventions that are centuries old, and we have ridden waves (both the ebb and flow) of new technologies in print and electronic publishing.

As a team, we have worked with some of the world’s largest fiction and nonfiction publishers and with many independent authors self-publishing their first book. We are members of the International Digital Publishing Forum and work directly with the major retailers and distributors, including Amazon KDP, Apple, Barnes & Noble, IngramSpark, and Books on Demand.

For all this experience, we treat every book as a new journey. Our role is to guide you through the self-publishing process as effortlessly as possible, to produce a final book that you are completely satisfied with. And we’ll charge you only when we reach this destination.

We offer interior formatting, ebook conversion, cover design, and editorial self-publishing services. We consult with you throughout to ensure the best services fit for your timeline and budget. We don’t sell “packages” or services that don’t add value or produce results, and we promise not to sell services you don’t need.

We respect your copyright and will always keep your content secure. All the files we produce for your book belong to you. We collect only the minimum personal information we need to provide services to you, and this information will never be given to any other company.

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Self-Publishing Services

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  • Paperback formatting
  • Ebook conversion
  • Cover design
  • Editing and proofreading

Paperback formatting

  • For independent authors who want to test the market for a printed book, single-copy print on demand services offered by companies such as Amazon KDP and IngramSpark remove the need to make a large upfront investment in boxes full of copies.
  • We can typeset interior pages from any wordprocessing file, a PDF, or even an already published ebook file.
  • If you are publishing a series of books, we’ll ensure design continuity, even if we didn’t work on the earlier titles.
  • For a standalone title, you can provide us with an existing book as a design reference, or we can guide you through the choice of page size, typeface, margins, font size, and line spacing to create a readable custom interior that suits your market and delights your readers.
  • The greatest interior design is invisible. We follow the same best-practice formatting conventions as the largest commercial publishers. But we'll also break the rules when you ask us to.
  • We ensure your text formatting and interior images meet the technical quality requirements of print.
  • We explain how to upload files to your retailer’s or distributor’s site for publication.
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Ebook conversion

  • We can create ebooks from Word, Pages, RTF, PDF, and typesetting files, or from printed books. Let us know if you have something else: we enjoy a challenge.
  • Our reflowable and fixed-layout (print facsimile) ebooks are compatible with ebook readers, smartphones, tablets, laptops, and PCs.
  • We guide you through the complexities of font embedding, device support, and image formatting.
  • Our ebook files are optimized for your target retailers, including Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo.
  • We validate our files against both the latest IDPF standards for ebooks and retailer-specific checklists.
  • We also format files for Smashwords and iBooks Author.
  • We can enhance ebooks with embedded audio, video, or animation.
  • We explain how to upload files to your retailer’s or distributor’s site for publication.
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Cover design

  • We both want your book to have an immediate visual impact. Our designers can help you produce a book that stands out on a website or in a bookstore.
  • We’ll consult closely with you on the mood, tone, and concepts you want your cover to convey. We’ll present you with a set of complementary designs to choose from and refine through two or three rounds of review.
  • It always helps to get feedback from friends and peers. If you can’t decide between different cover treatments, we’ll set up a private online poll to which you can invite people whose opinions you value.
  • If you already have a cover image you want to use, we’ll check it against the technical quality requirements for print and electronic publishing. If you have the idea but not the image, we can point you to high-quality, cost-effective image libraries online or secure images on your behalf.
  • Along with the art, we take care of the science of paper bulk, spine width, bleed, and barcode generation.
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Editing and proofreading

  • There's no single definition of “copy editing.” We offer a range from light to interventionist editorial services to suit your budget and schedule.
  • A light edit will take care of black-and-white errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation. As the editing moves deeper into the content, the editor will look at issues of word choice and redundancy, clarity and consistency, structure, transitions, and the flow of ideas, pacing, and characterization.
  • We match your manuscript with an editor experienced in your genre and market. All of our editors have handled books for major publishers, and we vet their work carefully.
  • We’ll guide you through the complexities of permissions to reproduce copyright content. Our editors are always alert to sexist and parochial language and potential libel.
  • If your book needs an index, we can organize that, too, through our international pool of certified indexers.
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