Transparent pricing
What a book actually costs.
Most publishing sites hide this behind a contact form. Here are real starting figures, what drives them up, and what is never included.
Packages
Three ways
to work with us.
Every figure below is a starting point for that scope. Your written quote itemises each line so you can see what is driving the number.
Short Book
Guides, lead magnets and short non-fiction up to 20,000 words.
- Up to 20,000-word manuscript
- One professional ghostwriter
- One editing pass
- Ebook cover design
- Amazon KDP publishing
- Ebook formatting
Full Book
Memoirs, business books and novels up to 60,000 words.
- Up to 60,000-word manuscript
- Genre-matched writer and dedicated editor
- Developmental and line editing
- Print and ebook cover design
- Print interior typesetting
- Publishing to all major retailers
- Launch strategy consultation
- Dedicated project manager
Author Complete
Full service through a managed launch campaign.
- Everything in Full Book
- Up to 90,000 words
- Audiobook production and narration
- Author website with email capture
- 90-day Amazon Ads campaign
- Press and podcast outreach
- ARC review programme
Advertising spend is billed separately and paid directly to the platform. We do not mark it up.
Individual services
Need only
one stage?
Every service can be booked on its own. Indicative starting prices for an 80,000-word manuscript.
Developmental edit
Structure, argument and pacing, with a full editorial letter and a call.
from $2,100Line & copy edit
Sentence-level work in tracked changes, plus a style sheet.
from $1,650Cover design
Three concepts, thumbnail testing, full print wrap and ebook files.
from $750Interior typesetting
Print interior plus reflowable EPUB, validated for every retailer.
from $590Publishing setup
ISBN, metadata, categories, keywords and multi-retailer upload.
from $680Audiobook production
Narrator casting, studio recording, mastering and distribution.
from $2,400Pricing questions
Before you
ask us.
The questions that come up on almost every consultation call.
Because word count, research depth and timeline genuinely change the work. A 30,000-word guide built from your existing blog posts is a different job from a 90,000-word memoir needing thirty hours of interviews. Every quote is itemised so you can see exactly what drives the figure.
Yes, at every tier. You hold the copyright, the ISBN, the retail accounts and 100% of royalties. We never take a percentage of what the book earns.
Projects are split into three to four milestone payments tied to deliverables you have approved — typically outline approval, half the manuscript, full manuscript, and publication.
Every package includes two revision rounds per chapter, and we do not start the next chapter until the current one is approved. If the voice is wrong at the sample stage we change writers at no cost.
Third-party costs are passed through at cost and quoted separately: ISBN purchase if you want your own block, premium stock photography or original illustration, print runs, and advertising spend. We never mark these up.
Yes. Roughly a third of our clients arrive with a finished draft and need only editing, design and publishing. We will quote exactly those stages.
Get an itemised quote.
Tell us the scope and we will send a written, line-by-line quote within one business day.