From finished manuscript to a book readers can find.
Six stages, clear hand-offs, and a date attached to each one. You always know what is happening, who has the ball, and what comes next.
The six stages, in order
Not every book needs every stage — but this is the sequence.
How a book moves through the studio
Not every book needs every stage. We scope only what yours is missing — but when we do take a stage on, this is how it runs.
The conversation
You tell us what you have written, where it stands, and what you want it to do. We tell you what it still needs. If part of the job is something you can do yourself, we will say so.
- You leave with a written scope and a line-item price
- No obligation, and no pressure to decide on the call
Onboarding into Author Studio
You get your own private studio. Your manuscript goes in, your contract and invoice live there, and short lessons walk you through exactly what happens at each stage — including what to send us and what to skip.
- One place for files, contracts and invoices
- No chasing anyone for a status update
Cover design
We design on screen and judge at thumbnail size, because that is how a reader will meet your book. You see concepts, choose a direction, and we refine it — structured rounds, not endless email.
- Genre-accurate typography and imagery
- Front, spine and back built together
- Print wrap and ebook files delivered
Interior design
Chapter openers, running heads, folios and front and back matter, laid out so the reading never snags. Print and reflowable ebook are built from the same source, so they stay consistent.
- Print-ready interior, proofed at size
- Reflowable ebook conversion
Metadata and listings
Categories, keywords and description copy built around how readers actually search — then written into every listing. A beautiful book nobody can find is still invisible.
- Category and keyword research
- Retail description copywriting
- Author and series metadata set up properly
Platform setup and launch
Retailer and distributor accounts configured, pricing and territories set, proofs ordered and checked. Then the book goes live under your name, in your accounts, with you holding the keys.
- Proof review before anything ships
- Accounts stay in your name
- A marketing assessment available any time after launch
Who has the ball, and when
The most common worry authors bring us is not knowing whether something is waiting on them. This is the whole answer, on one chart.
What we need from you
- A finished manuscript — final enough that the text is not still moving
- Your trim size and page-count target, if you already know them
- Two or three books whose look you admire, and one you do not
- Your author bio and any series information
- Timely feedback at each round — the single biggest driver of schedule
What you walk away with
- Print-ready cover files and a reflowable ebook cover
- A print interior and a matching ebook interior
- Category, keyword and description copy you own
- Live listings in accounts registered to you
- Every source deliverable, downloadable from your studio any time
We are a studio, not a publisher.
We do not buy rights, we do not take a royalty share, and we do not lock your files behind our accounts. You pay for the work, you keep the book. If that means you outgrow us and take the next one elsewhere, that is the deal working as intended.
Tell us about your book.
A free, no-obligation conversation with someone from our design studio. We will map the path to readers together, on your terms.
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