Novelist

£4,899.00

Novels travel through conversation, and Novelist gives yours several places to start one. Book clubs get a discussion guide, hosted on your custom website, that hands them somewhere to begin. Podcast listeners hear you talk about the work in your own voice. A press release goes to a hundred outlets that cover fiction, written and targeted the way newsrooms expect. And a thirty-day plan gives you something to post that was written for this book rather than deciding each morning what to say about it.

HOW YOUR BOOK IS PUBLISHED

The formats your book is available in, so readers can purchase it based on their preference

• Ebook Format
  Your book, available to download and read anywhere, sold through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online retailers.
• Paperback Format
  Perfect-bound on acid-free library stock paper—the format most readers reach for, made to hold up on a shelf for years.
• Hardcover Format
  Cloth binding, a gold-toned spine, and a full-color dust jacket with space on the flaps for your description, your biography, and any endorsements.

HOW YOUR BOOK IS MADE

The craft between a finished manuscript and a book someone wants to pick up

• Content Review
  We check for plagiarism, copyright issues, libel and sensitive content before your book meets a wide audience.*
  
  * Note: This is not legal advice; make sure to consult an attorney for specific legal protection.
• Editorial Assessment
  A close look at sample passages, telling you honestly what's working, what isn't, and the kind of editing your book would benefit from.
• Front & Back Cover Copy Polish
  You tell us about your book. We turn it into the copy that sells it—back cover, jacket flaps, author bio, wherever you need it.
• Professional Cover Design
  A cover has seconds to earn a stranger's attention. Our designers build yours around your ideas, your images, and how you want the book to feel.
• Book Interior Design & Formatting
  A custom interior built to industry standard—chapter titles, headings, page numbers, and up to ten images placed where they belong.
• Series Branding Template
  A matching cover system for future titles, so a reader who finds one of your books recognizes the next one immediately.

HOW YOUR BOOK IS PROTECTED

The registrations that put your book on the record and make it possible for readers to find it

• ISBN Assignment
  The thirteen-digit number unique to your book. Distributors, retailers, printers and readers all use it to find and order what you wrote.
• Library of Congress Control Number
  We submit your book to the Library of Congress and arrange for its catalog number—your work, recorded in the national collection.
• US Copyright Registration
  We file the paperwork and submit a copy of your book to the US Copyright Office. You receive an official certificate and a public record of your ownership.

HOW MANY COPIES YOU RECEIVE

Copies to give to friends, family, reviewers and readers to help generate early buzz and get people talking about it

• 150 Ebook Gift Codes
• 25 Paperback Copies
• 10 Hardcover Copies

HOW YOUR BOOK REACHES READERS

What we do to help readers find your book

• Set Your Own Price
  You decide what your book sells for. The retail price is yours to set, with a corresponding royalty rate.
• Book Discovery Plan
  We optimize keywords and categories and identify ideal readers to maximize discoverability in channel retailers like Amazon.
• Book Launch Plan
  A marketing roadmap for before, during and after launch—what you can do yourself and the professional services that suit your book.
• Book Launch Announcement on Balboa Press Social Media Account
  Your book is announced to our social audience in a post featuring our recent releases.
• Featured Book Placement on the Balboa Press Online Bookstore
  Two weeks in the Featured Books section of our bookstore, where visitors browsing new titles will see yours.
• Hay House Online Catalog Listing
  Your book appears in the Balboa Press catalog on the Hay House website in one of Hay House's quarterly online catalogs.
• Goodreads Book Listing Setup
  We set up your book's Goodreads listing, so the readers who track what they read and recommend can find yours, shelve it, and talk about it.
• Social Media Graphics Kit
  Professionally designed graphics built from your cover—reveal images and page banners—giving you a range of ready-made options to post in addition to a photo of your book on a table.
• Customized 30-Day Social Media Strategy for Your Book
  A month of content built around your book: what to post, when, and why, so you're not deciding each morning what to say about it.
• Booksellers Return Program
  If bookstore shelves are part of your plan, this is the piece that makes them possible: your book listed as returnable to booksellers, with your royalties protected either way.
• Custom Website for Fiction Books
  A place online that belongs to your book. Ten pages, your domain, hosting for a year, and a reading group guide waiting for the book clubs who choose your book.
• Podcast Interview on The Book Connection Show
  A twenty-minute recorded conversation about your book and how you came to write it, featured on an online show and podcast where readers can discover new self-published authors.