Costs and Royalties

Your cost will depend on which of our services you wish to utilize. We will work with you to get the most for your dollar, regardless.

Below is a break down of our charges:

For “Publish As Is”: you will incur charges for “layout,” “cover design,” “print/online distributions” and “marketing”– see below

Manuscript evaluation: $0

Content/Copy Editing & Proofing: $35 -$50/hour (higher rate applies for shorter publication)

Layout: $45-$85/hour (higher rate applies for shorter publication)

Cover design: $100-$400 regardless of length

Print/Online distribution: Minimum of $300.

Marketing: $1500 (recommend at least $2,000) set price for press releases/social media exposure  

Library marketing: $85/ per title

Illustrations (for novel/children’s book): $35-50/hour

Royalties: Authors will be paid royalties of 25% of the retail price for each e-books sold, 10% -15% of the retail price for each hard cover edition sold (higher rates apply for increased sales), and 8%-10% of the retail prices for each paper back or soft cover edition sold (higher rates apply for increased sales) – (Note: that your royalty rates of 50% for each e-book copy sale and 30% for each soft and hard cover copy sale exceeds the usual amount given to authors by publishers. If you still want to give the higher rate, you can change my numbers.)