Straight answers about publishing, from people who actually publish.
Straight answers on ghostwriting, editing, covers, formatting, translation, marketing, and audiobooks from a publisher working with authors since 2018.
How involved do you need to be with a ghostwriter?
The hours it genuinely asks of you, what only you can supply, and how to give feedback that improves a draft.
Will anyone know I used a ghostwriter?
How confidentiality works, who owns the book, whether readers can tell, and the few situations where disclosure genuinely matters.
How much does a ghostwriter cost?
What ghostwriting costs per word, why the range is so wide, and what the low end is actually delivering.
Formatting an illustrated or complex book
Why images and tables break reflowable ebooks, when fixed layout is the right answer, and what complex work costs.
Formatting for KDP, Apple Books, and IngramSpark
What each retailer validates, which is strictest, and why a file one store accepts another rejects.
EPUB vs print PDF: what you actually need
Reflowable versus fixed, why one file cannot serve both, and which formats you need for the retailers you plan to sell on.
How many cover concepts should you get?
Why one is too few and ten is worse, what makes concepts genuinely different, and how to choose without ruining the cover.
What print-ready actually means
Bleed, embedded fonts, CMYK, flattened layers, and rich black. What separates an accepted file from one that only looks fine.
Book cover dimensions for KDP and IngramSpark
Trim sizes, the spine width formula, bleed, safe margins, and the ebook ratio. Every number your cover file needs.
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