With the growing disillusionment with vanity publishers, it’s time to reexamine how authors can get their work professionally published at a reasonable rate.

What are some of the issues with Vanity Publishers?

• Vanity publishers appeal to your ego by telling you how wonderful your work is, even when it’s not. They will charge you thousands of dollars for work they know will not sell. Hence the term, Vanity publishers.
• They get paid upfront, so have no skin in the game. It matters not to them whether your book has merit, only that you have money.
• They also retain, on average, 75% of your royalties for print and 60% for eBooks.
• Royalties are customarily paid once or twice a year.
• They determine the price of your book, and once it is set, it remains unchanged.
• They will make a profit on your author copies. While Amazon KDP sells author copies at cost + shipping, vanity publishers offer a discount on the retail price.
• Should you want to make changes to the manuscript after publication, to fix typos, for example, they will charge you to make the changes.

Assisted Publishing puts all the power back in authors’ hands. It uses your own KDP account, which enables the following:

• You set and update the price at your discretion.
• You can upload a revised manuscript anytime you’ve made edits.
• Since your bank account is set up on KDP, all royalties are paid directly to you at an interval you decide.
• From KDP, you can set promotions yourself to help boost sales.
• Author copies on KDP are charged at the cost of printing. Order as many as you want for book fairs and family, as often as you want – nobody is making a profit from these sales.

There are many steps along the publication road, and not everyone will be at the same point. People’s needs will be different. While vanity publishers charge a substantial amount of money to complete the end-to-end process, I focus on assisting you with the step you’re at.

And, most importantly, I will provide honest feedback, mentoring, and coaching all the way through to ensure your product is the best it can be.

So, wherever you are in the process, I can help:

• Manuscript Assessment
• Proofreading
• Editing
• Formatting – eBook and print
• Cover Design
• Publishing on Amazon – eBook and print
• Publishing on Barnes & Noble + 10 other popular platforms
• Author Central Page on Amazon