FREQUENTLYASKED

QUESTIONS

FREQUENTLYASKED

QUESTIONS

Most of our authors are first-timers, and the process is built around that. Nothing assumes prior publishing knowledge, every stage is explained in plain English before it happens, and you will never be handed a form full of industry terms and left to guess.

It depends entirely on which stages you need, which is why nobody can give you an honest single figure on a website. An author arriving with a finished, edited manuscript pays a fraction of what a full ghostwriting project costs.

We quote per project after a free call, as one agreed scope. No surprise line items appear halfway through.

Yes, completely. You are the author and the copyright holder, your name goes on the cover, and you keep every publishing right including translations, audio and adaptations.

Publishing accounts are opened in your name with your own banking details, so Amazon and Ingram pay royalties directly to you. Nothing routes through us and we take no share.

From a finished manuscript to a book on sale is usually two to four months: editing, cover design, formatting, then setup and distribution.

If we are also writing the book, add four to seven months before that for interviews, drafting and your review time. We confirm a realistic schedule in writing before any work starts, and we do not quietly extend it.

Pick only what you need. Plenty of authors come to us for a cover alone, or an edit alone, and that is a perfectly sensible way to work with us.

We will tell you honestly which stages your book requires, including when the answer is fewer than you expected.

No. Our job is to make your writing clearer, not to make it sound like ours. Every substantive change arrives as a tracked suggestion with a comment explaining the reasoning, and you accept or reject each one individually.

Revisions are unlimited inside the agreed scope, and you approve every stage before we move on to the next.

No. The first call is free and carries no obligation. You leave it knowing what your book would realistically take in time and money, even if you then decide to do it yourself or go elsewhere.

You also do not need anything prepared. An idea and a willingness to talk about it is genuinely enough to start.

Your book will be on Amazon and every major digital retailer, and orderable by any bookstore or library in the world through Ingram's catalogue.

Guaranteed placement on a physical shelf is decided store by store, and no honest publisher promises it. What we do is set your trade discount and returnability so that a store which wants to stock you is able to.

It is. You own the manuscript outright and our involvement stays confidential unless you decide to mention it. Every ghostwriting project is covered by a signed confidentiality agreement.

The same applies to design: you receive full commercial rights to your cover, the layered working files, and written confirmation of every image and font licence used.

Yes. Larger projects are split into stage payments that fall due as each stage is delivered and approved, so you are never paying far ahead of the work.

Yes. Every project is covered by a signed confidentiality agreement, and your material is never shared, quoted or used as a sample without your written permission.

No, and we would be careful with anyone who does. What we commit to is the work, the targeting and honest reporting of what each activity actually returned.

Our marketing service starts by fixing the free things — categories, keywords, description — before a cent goes to advertising.