MemoirThe Long Road HomeRenee Alston
Independent Publishing House · New York
Every great book
starts as someone’s
unfinished story.
We write it, edit it, design it, and publish it — so the story you have been carrying for years finally exists as a book people can hold.
420+Books published
38Amazon #1 categories
4.9/5Author rating
MemoirThe Long Road Home
BusinessBuilt to Scale
Self-HelpQuiet Confidence
★★★★★4.9 out of 5182 verified authors
Published across
Amazon KDPIngramSparkBarnes & Noble PressApple BooksAudibleKoboDraft2DigitalSpotify Audiobooks
Amazon KDPIngramSparkBarnes & Noble PressApple BooksAudibleKoboDraft2DigitalSpotify Audiobooks
What we do
Twelve services.
One accountable team.
Most authors end up managing a freelance writer, a separate editor, a cover designer who has never read the book, and a formatter in another timezone. We do all of it under one roof, with one project manager who answers for the whole thing.
Book Ghostwriting
A professional writer captures your voice and delivers a finished manuscript, chapter by chapter.
Memoir & Life Story
We turn decades of memory into a structured, readable memoir your family will keep.
Business Books
Position yourself as the authority in your field with a book built from your own expertise.
Fiction Ghostwriting
Novels and series written to genre convention by writers who read what you read.
Editing & Proofreading
Developmental, line, and copy editing that sharpens structure without flattening your voice.
Cover Design
Genre-accurate covers designed to earn the click on a crowded retail page.
Formatting & Typesetting
Print-ready interiors and reflowable ebook files that pass retailer validation first time.
Self & Amazon Publishing
ISBNs, metadata, categories, and upload handled properly across every major retailer.
Audiobook Production
Narrator casting and studio-grade production, distributed to Audible, Apple, and Spotify.
Book Marketing
Launch strategy, Amazon advertising, and press outreach that puts the book in front of readers.
Author Websites
A platform that converts curious readers into an email list you actually own.
Book Printing
Offset and print-on-demand runs, from proof approval through to boxes at your door.
How it works
From a shoebox of
notes to a finished
book in your hands.
No stage begins until you have signed off on the one before it. You always know where the book is, and you never pay for work you have not approved.
Book your consultation
01
The conversation
A free 30-minute call. You tell us what the book is, who it is for, and when you need it. We tell you honestly whether we are the right house for it — sometimes we are not.
02
Outline & voice sample
Your writer builds a chapter-by-chapter outline and drafts a sample passage in your voice. You read it before any full chapter is written. If the voice is wrong, we change writers, not your expectations.
03
Chapters, weekly
Drafts arrive on a fixed schedule with recorded interviews behind each one. You comment, we revise, and the next chapter does not start until the current one is approved.
04
Edit, design, typeset
Developmental and line editing, then a cover built to your genre’s conventions and an interior typeset for both print and ebook.
05
Publish & launch
ISBNs, metadata, categories, and upload across every major retailer — then, if you want it, a launch campaign built to put the book in front of actual readers.
Selected work
Books we brought
to the shelf.
A sample across memoir, business, and fiction. Every one of these started as a conversation with someone who was not sure they had a book in them.
BusinessBuilt to ScaleDavid Chen
Self-HelpQuiet ConfidenceSofia Marquez
420+Books published since launch
38Amazon #1 category rankings
100%Rights retained by the author
182Verified author reviews
In their words
What our authors say.
“I sent my ghostwriter a box of old journals and got back the book I had been trying to write for a decade. It sounds exactly like me — just clearer.
“The book became our best sales asset almost overnight. Investors bring it up in meetings before we even mention it.
“I had been quoted by three other companies. Kingsley was the only one that told me my first idea was too broad, and gave me a better one.
Why authors choose us
You keep the rights.
Always.
We are not a vanity press and we do not take a cut of your royalties. You own the copyright, the ISBN, the retail accounts, and every cent the book earns. We are paid for the work, once, and then the book is entirely yours.
- 100% of copyright and royalties stay with you
- Every writer and editor signs an NDA before seeing a word
- Milestone payments tied to work you have approved
- Your retail accounts are registered in your name, not ours
Genre-matched writers
A memoir writer and a business-book writer are different professionals. We never hand your project to whoever happens to be free.
One project manager
A single person owns your timeline end to end. You are never forwarded between departments.
Honest scoping
If your idea needs to be narrower, or the book should be 40,000 words instead of 80,000, we say so before you pay.
Built to sell
Covers, metadata, and categories are chosen against live retail data, not taste alone.
Tell us about the book you have been meaning to write.
A free 30-minute call, an honest assessment, and a written quote within one business day. No obligation, and no pressure to decide on the call.