Go ahead. Admit it. You’ve always dreamed of holding the book you wrote in your own hands. You may be a great writer, or not. You just didn’t know how.
I’m announcing a unique new business model for authors, would-be authors, businesses that want to promote their products or services and anyone who thought it was impossible to make money by writing and publishing books.
I’m now offering a full range of publishing and writing options that take your book from a glimmer in your eye to a completed book in your hand.
For example:
1. Do you have a great book idea, but have no idea how to write it, much less how to navigate the publishing process?
2. Do you have a manuscript ready to publish, but no publisher?
3. Do you have a product that you’d like to promote through a book designed to educate the public?
4. Have you had an unpleasant experience with traditional publishing that leads you to believe that publishers are the only ones who make money in the book business?
5. Have you been told by a publisher that your book sounds great, but your proposal is unacceptable because you don’t have a platform?
If you’ve answered “Yes” to any of these questions, I can help you make your book a reality – and a success.
For several years, I’ve helped people birth their books. I’ve helped numerous nationally known authors research, write and edit their books. Now I’m ready to take the process to the next logical level to help authors publish and promote their books as well.
Not only have I been a published writer for more than 40 years, I’ve written, co-authored or edited 20 books and hundreds of magazine articles published in national and international publications on topics ranging from natural health to sustainable living, personal development, business and marketing and personal memoirs.
Now I can also offer full-service publishing. I can guide your book from concept to fruition and all the steps in between.
I can expertly usher your book through every step of the process:
• Give you feedback on your concept
• Develop a concept for you
• Edit and critique your manuscript
• Collaborate with you in writing your manuscript
• Supervise the entire pre-production process, including:
o Text design
o Cover design
o Proofreading
o Copy editing
o Indexing
• Arrange for printing
o Print on demand
o Traditional printing, warehousing, distribution, fulfillment
• Supervise publicity, the most important part of selling your book:
o Internet marketing
o Traditional public relations for electronic and print media
Yeah, yeah, you’re probably saying. This is traditional self-publishing.
It’s not. This model is a true publishing partnership where both the author and publisher can make money. It’s a model where the author recovers all out of pocket expenses before the publisher makes a dollar. It’s a model where the author retains rights to the work and has creative control at all times.
Unlike in traditional publishing where an author might receive a dollar or two per copy in royalties, my new publishing model gives the author $4, $5 or even more per book sold.
Please contact me. Together, we can make your dream of authorship a reality and make your book a success!
Kathleen Barnes
kathleen@kathleenbarnes.com