Editing:
Editing of first 3 chapters with a 45 minute consultation.
Having an editor look over your work before it is published is seen as essential. No book should be published without the input of a professional editor.
One of our professional editors will take a look at your first 3 chapters and offer an assessment on your story. This covers guidance on the opening of the book, basic grammar, spelling, punctuation (in British English), consistency of layout and tense, publishing conventions and, where necessary, structural advice. The Comments function in Word will be used by our editors so that you can make the final changes.
This does not include final page layout, which the printer will do prior to the print run.
The consultation is a telephone consultation when you will be able to talk to the editor directly about your work and discuss its merits and ways of improvement.
Editing of all chapters with a 2 hour consultation.
Having an editor look over your work before it is published is seen as essential. No book should be published without the input of a professional editor.
One of our professional editors will take a look at your first 3 chapters and offer an assessment on your story. This covers guidance on the opening of the book, basic grammar, spelling, punctuation (in British English), consistency of layout and tense, publishing conventions and, where necessary, structural advice. The Comments function in Word will be used by our editors so that you can make the final changes.
This does not include final page layout, which the printer will do prior to the print run.
The consultation is a telephone consultation when you will be able to talk to the editor directly about your work and discuss its merits and ways of improvement.
Proofreading
A book with even one spelling mistake can lose its credibility. Having a fresh pair of eyes proof read your book before it is published is vital.
Our proofreaders will carry out a final check of your work to ensure is in absolute perfect form. This involves checking for spelling mistakes, typos and ensuring consistency.
Please note; proof reading is a final check of work that is already polished and been through the hands of an editor. This does not include editing sloppy copy nor final page layout, which the printer will do prior to the print run.
Book cover design for ebooks
All books are judged their cover so it is vital to have a book cover that is eye-catching and tells your story in a picture.
Our professional designers will design a book cover (front facing) for your ebook. We will take any suggestion you may have or input our own creativity to produce a book cover that looks spectacular, eye-catching and eloquent.
Below are examples of book covers our designers have created.
Germaroon | Burrell’s Blues | A Mirror | Three Thousand Miles for a Wish
Book cover design for print book
All books are judged their cover so it is vital to have a book cover that is eye-catching and tells your story in a picture.
Our professional designers will design a full book cover (front, spine and back) for your book to whichever size you specify. We will take any suggestion you may have or input our own creativity to produce a book cover that looks spectacular, eye-catching and eloquent. We will ensure that the size of the book fits within the standard printers specifications.
Below are examples of book covers our designers have created.
Germaroon | Burrell’s Blues | A Mirror | Three Thousand Miles for a Wish
Book cover design for print book and ebook
All books are judged their cover so it is vital to have a book cover that is eye-catching and tells your story in a picture.
Our professional designers will design a full print book cover (front, spine and back) and ebook cover (front facing) for your book to whichever size you specify. We will take any suggestion you may have or input our own creativity to produce a book cover that looks spectacular, eye-catching and eloquent. We will ensure that the size of the book fits within the standard printers specifications and ebook specifications.
Below are examples of book covers our designers have created.
Germaroon | Burrell’s Blues | A Mirror | Three Thousand Miles for a Wish
eBook publishing – onto Amazon Kindle from a word file
Our technical staff will E-publish your book on Amazon’s best-selling Kindle within 7 days and make your work available for sale to the whole world.
This is what you get:
- We will set-up your account, transfer your word document onto Amazon Kindle and deal with all technicalities (no ISBN is required). NB e-publishing on Kindle, although offered free of charge by Amazon, can be horrendously time-consuming and technical. Our fee is based on our expertise, quick turnaround, and taking the workload and stress of this away from you.
- Your work will be available on Amazon Kindle as a downloadable ebook worldwide within 7 days (most books are now read on Amazon Kindle than any other format)
- You will start earning money on every download as soon as you are published. By setting the price of your ebook from £1.49 to £6.99, you will earn 70% royalties on every download
- Your ebook will be promoted on New Age Publishers website (NB we are currently in the process of redesigning the website)
- Simple set-up and easy payment from Amazon direct to your bank account
eBook publishing – onto Amazon Kindle from a PDF file
Our technical staff will E-publish your book on Amazon’s best-selling Kindle within 7 days and make your work available for sale to the whole world.
This is what you get:
- We will set-up your account, transfer your PDF document onto Amazon Kindle and deal with all technicalities (no ISBN is required). NB e-publishing on Kindle, although offered free of charge by Amazon, can be horrendously time-consuming and technical. Our fee is based on our expertise, quick turnaround, and taking the workload and stress of this away from you.
- Your work will be available on Amazon Kindle as a downloadable ebook worldwide within 7 days (most books are now read on Amazon Kindle than any other format)
- You will start earning money on every download as soon as you are published. By setting the price of your ebook from £1.49 to £6.99, you will earn 70% royalties on every download
- Your ebook will be promoted on New Age Publishers website (NB we are currently in the process of redesigning the website)
- Simple set-up and easy payment from Amazon direct to your bank account
ISBN
Most books require an ISBN number. These can be difficult to obtain and can be quite costly. If you require an ISBN number you can purchase one from us at a fraction of the normal costs. Please note this will be an ISBN number that will be associated with New Age Publishers Direct.
Formatting for Print book
To get the formatting of a book correct and to ready for print can be a frustrating process – especially if you are not an expert with Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign.
Our formatting experts will take your manuscript and format it to make it look like a professional designed book. They will organise the page sizes, line spacing, page numbers, font size, chapter headings, alignment and general layout.
Batch printing of books
Our printers have many years experience in printing retail-quality perfect bound books. We can print novels, children’s books, educational books and many more in black and white or colour.
Please use our online calculator to get an instant quote.
Print on Demand facility set-up with distribution to Amazon.co.uk
Our Print on Demand facility works like this:
1 – You send us your book and specify how you would like your print book to look.
2 – We will set your book up on our digital database
3 – We will print retail quality copies of your book as you or your customers order (ranging from 1 to 3,000)
4 – We will make your book available in the Amazon.co.uk bookstore and arrange print and delivery as and when one of your customer orders a book.
5 – you retain 60% of royalties on sales made.
Print on Demand facility set-up with distribution to Amazon.co.uk and worldwide outlets
Our Print on Demand facility works like this:
1 – You send us your book and specify how you would like your print book to look.
2 – We will set your book up on our digital database
3 – We will print retail quality copies of your book as you or your customers order (ranging from 1 to 3,000)
3 – We will make your book available in the Amazon.co.uk bookstore and a number of outlets worldwide and arrange print and delivery as and when one of your customer orders a book.
4 – you retain 60% of royalties on sales made.
Website design
With the internet booming, every author should have a website for their book.
This is a key marketing tool.
A website for your book will allow a reader to Google your title, click onto your website and find out about your book and how it can be purchased.
Our expert web designers will design a one-page website for you which will contain the following:
- A website address matching your book title (with hosting for one year)
- an image of your book and the blurb,
- Links to various places where your book can be bought ie Kindle, Waterstones,
- a ‘contact the author’ section, and
- an option for reader to obtain the first 3 chapters for free (this is optional)
Design and Print bookmarks & Posters
Our designers will create professional and attractive book marks and posters using your book cover image.
Bookmarks provide a very effective marketing tool as they are useful for readers but at the same time promote your book.
Posters when put up in the correct places can be a great awareness building tool and help spread the word about your book.
Front page display on our website for 1 month (rotating)
Your book will be displayed on our front page website (on a rotating basis) and will contain a link to your book which will lead either to your Amazon page or to your book website.
This is a great marketing tool to ensure that your book is placed in front of as many people as possible.
Email marketing tutorial
Email marketing is a very effective way of promoting your book and converting the promotion to sales.
Our expert and dynamic online marketeers will give you a one hour tutorial on email marketing via a web camera (Skype) or over the phone. They will talk you through the techniques of marketing your book using email.
Facebook & Twitter tutorial
It is without doubt that having a Facebook and Twitter presence is essential in today’s times.
Our social media experts will give you a two hour tutorial via a web camera (Skype) or face-to-face on how to use Facebook and Twitter to promote your book and generate sales.
If you haven’t used Facebook and Twitter before or you have but want to smarten up your skills then this programme is ideal for you as our social media experts will match your pace of learning.
Facebook page set-up
Our social media experts and design team will create a Facebook landing page for your book which will be colourful, attractive and incentivise users to ‘like’ your page.
It is not enough to have just a standard Facebook page with a small image on the left. Facebook users want to see big images and influence to hit the ‘like’ button on your page.
Below is an example of a facebook landing page we have created:
www.facebook.com/threethousandmilesforawish
Facebook fans
The more popular your Facebook page is the more sales you are likely to make on your book.
Our social media experts will create a targeted advertisement for your book which will generate specific fans on your Facebook page from all over the world. These could be fans that enjoy reading or have a specific interest in your genre.
The turnaround for this service is 7-28 days depending on number of fans required.
A press release distributed online
With this quick and simple service our publicity team will:
- Write a press release on your book with optimised key words to ensure higher internet search rankings.
- Distribute it to a PR company to send to Google News, Yahoo and The Associated Press*
- Listed on the following Social Bookmarking and Networking Sites:
- Digg
- Squidoo
- Jumptags
- Tumblr
- Identi.ca
- FriendFeed
- Plurk
- Plaxo Pulse
- Bebo
- Friendster
- Delicious
- Diigo
- Multiply
- Posterous
- Windows Live
- stumbleUpon
- Ping.fm
- Promote on our Facebook and Twitter feeds
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*it is not guaranteed that these channels will publish your press release. This is left to their discretion
A press release distributed to key media contacts
This is a one-off press release which will be fired off to targeted to magazines, newspapers, TV, radio, and online media contacts with the intention of promoting your book in some way.
Our publicity team will:
1.interview you to know more about you, your book and your hopes.
2.Review your book and a one hour discussion with you on strategy and goals and how to develop a reader-grabbing book press release.
3.Create a targeted media list of magazines, newspapers, TV, radio, and online media (book bloggers and reviewers) in the UK and internationally (where applicable).
4.Send an e-mail of your press release to these contacts and follow-up a week later
5.Arrange for you to send 15 copies of your book to priority reviewers.
6.Work with you on any media interest that follows.
NB: As with all PR, it is not guaranteed that our media contacts will publish your press release. This is left to their discretion and is the standard industry practice.
Dedicated PR for 3 months
Our publicity team will dedicate 3 months to promoting your book using top contacts and various tactics.
In summary, our publicity team will:
1.interview you to know more about you, your book and your hopes.
2.Review your book and work closely with you on a strategy, your goals and how to develop a reader-grabbing book press release to increase your chances of being featured in the media.
3.work closely with you to develop press material and multiple creative pitching angles to make it as easy as possible for editors, reporters, producers, and bloggers to feature you and your book. These angles will evolve as the campaign progresses.
4.Create a targeted media list of magazines, newspapers, TV, radio, and online media (book bloggers and reviewers) in the UK and internationally (where applicable).
5.Send e-mails of your press release and copies of your book to targeted contacts
6.Work with you on any media interest that follows.
7.Give regular updates on the steps taken each week and discuss with you the steps to follow.
NB: As with all PR, it is not guaranteed that our media contacts will publish your press release. This is left to their discretion and is the standard industry practice.
