The launch is treated as the starting line. It isn't. Categories, keywords, price, cover and early reviews all get decided before the book goes live, and between them they do more for sales than any ad budget spent afterwards. Advertising a book that isn't set up properly just buys you a faster way to lose money.
Nobody wants to hear that the launch window matters more than the ad spend. It does.
This is the cheapest lever in publishing and most authors never pull it. Your categories decide which bestseller lists you can appear on at all. A book in a category with real demand and beatable competition ranks. The same book in a category everyone picks disappears. It costs nothing to get right and it's awkward to change after.
Retail algorithms and browsing humans both read the review count before the sample. A launch with zero reviews starts cold. Advance copies to reviewers, genre readers and your own list take weeks of lead time, which is why this gets decided before the book is finished, not after.
Your product page is your sales page. The description, the first three lines before the fold, the cover at thumbnail size, the look inside. Traffic to a weak page is money spent teaching people not to buy. Fix the page before you buy the clicks.
A book that sells steadily over a fortnight and one that sells the same copies over three months get treated very differently by retail algorithms. Concentrating attention into a window is the difference between visibility that compounds and visibility that doesn't.
This is the corner of publishing with the most inflated promises, so here's where the honest lines sit.
Every month it sits in the drawer is a month nobody reads it. Tell us where the book is at and we'll give you a straight answer on what it needs.
If the book isn't ready, or the category is hopeless, spending on promotion won't fix either. We'd rather say that now than take the budget and show you a report afterwards.
You've probably heard that publishing services take your money, take your rights and go quiet. The industry earned that reputation. So here's how we work instead.
Your rights, your royalties, your files. Nothing we make gets licensed back to us.
Scope in writing first. No work starts on a handshake and a number that moves later.
Source files, print ready files, accounts and logins. All handed over, all in your name.
If your book doesn't need a service, we'll say so. That's cheaper for you and better for us.
Real books we've worked on. Covers, interiors and distribution, all of them out in the world.
Every month it sits in the drawer is a month nobody reads it. Tell us where the book is at and we'll give you a straight answer on what it needs.
Five stages, and you sign off at every one. Nothing moves to the next stage until you've said yes to the last.
Tell us where the book is and what you want it to do. We'll tell you what it actually needs.
Scope and price agreed in writing before anyone starts. You know the number up front.
Editing, layout, cover, whatever the scope says. You approve each stage as it lands.
Final proof on the typeset pages, plus a physical proof copy before anything gets printed at volume.
Retailer setup, metadata, categories and keywords. Then the files and logins come to you.
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