Publishing, Without the Guesswork

Your Book Deserves Better Than a Folder on Your Desktop

Most authors stall somewhere between the last chapter and the first sale. Avon Book Publisher picks up wherever you have stopped — blank page, rough draft or finished manuscript — and carries it the rest of the way.

What that includes:

A plan built around your book, not a package tier
One named contact from start to finish
Royalties paid to you, tracked transparently
Distribution across every major retailer
A refund if we do not deliver what we quoted
Revisions until you sign it off
Print-on-demand, so you never hold stock

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Where Would You Like to Start? New clients take up to 40% off their first project.

You Wrote It. Now Find Out
What It Can Actually Earn.

Every author we work with gets a live view of their sales and royalties — by title, by format, by territory. No quarterly mystery statements. Here is what that looks like in practice.

Why Authors Stay With Us.

Plenty of companies will take your manuscript and send it back formatted. Here is what you get from us that you would not get from a production line:

Editors Who Have Done This Before

Your manuscript is handled by people with a publishing track record, not a freelance marketplace.

One Contact, Not a Queue

The same project manager from the first call to the day your book goes live.

An Author Network

Introductions to writers further along the road, and the readers who follow them.

Nothing Hidden

Fixed quotes, milestone billing, and a straight answer when something will not work.

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Self-Publishing Is Not Hard.
It Is Just Twenty Things at Once.

ISBNs, trim sizes, cover bleed, metadata, category codes, ad budgets. You can learn all of it, or you can hand the list to a team that does it daily and get back to writing.

Ghostwriting

You talk it through, we write it down. Finished chapters, delivered in batches you approve as we go.

Publishing and Marketing Strategy

A written plan covering pricing, categories, launch timing and budget, before a penny is spent.

Audiobook

Narrators you audition yourself, recorded and mastered to the spec every audio retailer requires.

Publishing Navigation

ISBNs, imprints, distribution contracts and rights — the paperwork nobody warns you about.

Illustration

Original artwork drawn to a style you sign off first, from character sheets to full-page spreads.

Book Marketing

Ads run to a target cost of sale, with a monthly report showing what was spent and what came back.

Send Us Your Project Details and We’ll Come Back with a Fixed Quote

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Audiobook Production.

A growing share of your audience will never open the paperback — they listen on the commute, at the gym, doing the washing up. An audiobook is not a nice extra any more; for most titles it is a second income stream sitting unclaimed.

Shortlisted narrators audition with your actual text, and you choose.
Studio recording and mastering that meets every retailer's technical spec.
Sound design where the story calls for it, never where it distracts.
Distribution to Audible, Spotify, Kobo, Storytel and the library networks.

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Everything a Book Needs, Under One Roof.

Ten services, one team, one point of contact. Choose the stage you are stuck on, or hand over the whole project and we will run it from first draft to finished listing.

Formatting.

Margins, running heads, chapter openers, widow and orphan control. We typeset your interior for print and build clean reflowable ePub and Kindle files from the same approved text, so every edition reads the way you intended.

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Editing.

Your editor works through the manuscript chapter by chapter, tightening sentences, fixing pacing and flagging anything that trips a reader up. Every change is tracked, and nothing gets rewritten in a voice that is not yours.

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Proofreading.

The last read before the file goes to press. We check spelling, punctuation, hyphenation and consistency against an agreed style sheet, then run the same pass over the laid-out proof to catch anything introduced during typesetting.

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Ghostwriting.

You talk, we write. Recorded interviews, your notes and any existing drafts become a structured outline, then finished chapters delivered in batches you approve before we move on.

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Audiobook.

Auditioned narrators, a studio recording, and a mastered file that meets the technical specs of every major audio retailer. You pick the voice before a single chapter is recorded.

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Translation Services.

Native-speaking translators who read your genre, plus a second linguist reviewing the result. Idiom, humour and cultural references are adapted rather than converted word for word.

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Cover Design.

We research what is selling in your category, then design concepts that sit convincingly beside it. You get a full wrap for print, a thumbnail-legible version for retail listings, and the source files.

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Illustration Services.

Character sheets, spot art and full-page spreads drawn to a style you sign off on first. Common ground for picture books, graphic memoir, and non-fiction that needs diagrams people will actually look at.

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Printing Services.

Paperback, casebound hardcover, dust jackets and speciality finishes, printed on calibrated presses. Order fifty copies for a launch or ten thousand for distribution — the quality check is the same either way.

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Marketing Services.

Category and keyword work, paid advertising run to a target cost of sale, and reader outreach. You get a monthly report showing what was spent and what it returned, in plain numbers.

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What You Can Expect.

Revisions until you sign it off

Narrators who can actually act

Voices in every age, accent and register

Audio clean enough to listen to for hours

Pacing that holds a listener to the last chapter

Books We’ve Put on the Shelf.

These are finished titles, not mock-ups. Some came to us as complete manuscripts that needed an editor and a cover; others started as a folder of voice notes. Each one was written, designed, typeset and listed by the same team you would be working with, and each is on sale today through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and the wider retail network.

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What Our Authors Say Afterwards.

We would rather you heard it from the people who have already been through the process. These are authors who arrived with a half-finished draft, a rejected manuscript or nothing but an idea, and walked away with a book on sale. Read what they made of working with us, then decide whether we are the right fit for your project.

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Owen Welch

I had no idea where to begin with an audiobook. Cheryl sent me four narrator auditions, we picked one together, and six weeks later I had a finished file live on three stores. I listen to it more than I read my own paperback.

Charlie Owens

Frank kept the launch on schedule when I was the one causing the delays. He chased me for approvals, explained every step twice when I needed it, and never once made me feel like a nuisance.

Harvey Perkins

The ads were the part I was most sceptical about. Three months in, my cost per sale had halved and the book was holding a top-twenty spot in its category. The monthly report told me exactly where the money went.

David Davies

My manuscript was 340 pages of inconsistent formatting. What came back looked like something off a bookshop table — proper chapter openers, clean margins, the lot. I finally stopped apologising for the layout.

Marta Ellison

Every stage was costed and explained before I committed to it. No invoice ever surprised me, and the hardcover that arrived was better than the sample I had approved.

Grant Whitmore

They cut about eight thousand words and the book is stronger for it. What impressed me most is that it still sounds like me — readers who know me say they can hear my voice in it.

Questions We Get Asked Most.

You do. Your source material stays yours throughout, and on final payment every right in the finished deliverable transfers to you — including the right to publish under your own name. We take no credit line and no royalty unless you specifically ask us to.

Fiction and non-fiction both: memoir, business, self-help, children's books, academic work, thrillers, poetry. If a project is outside what we do well, we will say so on the first call rather than take the brief and struggle with it.

We record a conversation with you, then write one sample chapter from it. Your notes on that chapter set the vocabulary, rhythm and level of formality for everything that follows. You approve each batch of chapters before the next one is written.

A 50,000-word book usually runs 10 to 16 weeks, depending on how much research it needs. Chapters arrive on a fixed schedule rather than in one delivery at the end, so you can see progress and raise concerns early.

We quote per project once we know the word count, the research involved and the deadline. The figure is fixed — nothing is added later without your written agreement — and you can spread it across milestones rather than paying up front.

Let’s Get Your Book Off the Hard Drive and Into Readers’ Hands

Tell us what stage you are at and we will tell you honestly what it needs. Prefer to talk it through? Call us on +1 (707)-353-4214.

Top eBook Content Writing

Named by Clutch among the leading agencies for eBook content writing, based on verified client interviews.

Literary Excellence in Children Book

Pencraft placed our children's book team first in its category for illustration and storytelling.

Top Content Editing & Proofreading Service

Listed by Clutch as a top-tier editing and proofreading provider, judged on delivery and client outcomes.

2023 Book Award Winner: Non-Fiction Book

A Page Turner award for the strongest non-fiction title produced by a book writing company that year.

Top Product Marketing

Recognised by Clutch for campaign work that moved measurable sales, not just impressions.

Book Award Gold Winner: Fiction

Gold in the fiction category, awarded for a novel written, edited and published entirely in house.