Services We Provide
- Author coaching
- Publishing coaching
- Editing
- Formatting
- Cover Design
- Official Publication
Editing
How thick is your skin? The first time someone (truly) edited one of my manuscripts I wanted to crawl under a blankie and cry. Are you ready for us to be brutally honest?
One of the requirements in order to publish with Spencer Publishing, LLC is that you have to hire one of our team of editors to edit your manuscript.
I won’t put my publishing company’s name and ISBN on a book that’s unedited.
In order to publish with us, you’d need to hire us to do either a copyedit or line edit (preferably both). A developmental edit is encouraged but not required to publish with us. Proofreading may also be required at the end of the process and is strongly encouraged.
Quotes are going to take into consideration how much work needs to be done and what you’re willing to change. This is your book, not ours. You wouldn’t want to put your name on the front cover of a book that’s not edited the way you want it to be. You have the final say, but we encourage you to take our professional experience into consideration.
The more self-editing you can do, the less work your editing team will need to do, which lowers your cost. Before getting a quote on editing, use this guide to make sure your manuscript is ready.
One of the requirements in order to publish with Spencer Publishing, LLC is that you have to hire one of our team of editors to edit your manuscript.
I won’t put my publishing company’s name and ISBN on a book that’s unedited.
In order to publish with us, you’d need to hire us to do either a copyedit or line edit (preferably both). A developmental edit is encouraged but not required to publish with us. Proofreading may also be required at the end of the process and is strongly encouraged.
- Developmental Edit: Evaluates the big picture of your story, such as the plot, characters, setting and pacing.
- Line Edit: Focuses on improving the style, flow, and readability of a manuscript on a line-by-line basis.
- Copy Edit: Identifies errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and consistency.
- Proofreading: The final stage of the editing process to catch any remaining errors in the text, such as typos, grammatical mistakes, punctuation errors, and formatting issues.
Quotes are going to take into consideration how much work needs to be done and what you’re willing to change. This is your book, not ours. You wouldn’t want to put your name on the front cover of a book that’s not edited the way you want it to be. You have the final say, but we encourage you to take our professional experience into consideration.
The more self-editing you can do, the less work your editing team will need to do, which lowers your cost. Before getting a quote on editing, use this guide to make sure your manuscript is ready.
Formatting
Costs for paid formatting will be determined after we have evaluated the amount of time required to provide the formatting for the genre of book to be published. We format books using software that provides both an ePub (industry standard for eBook publishing), and a PDF for print books. We will give author one round of revisions at no additional cost.
Cover Design
We offer paid cover design services at costs negotiated between the author, cover designer, and Spencer Publishing, LLC.
Costs will be determined after cover designer has evaluated the amount of time required to provide the cover appropriate for the genre of book to be published and artistic direction from the author. A quote for services will be provided by the cover designer and no designing will commence until at which time the author has agreed in writing to pay for the cover design. This cost will be charged from Spencer Publishing, LLC to the author. The cover designer will work with the author directly and will give author one round of revisions at no additional cost.
Costs will be determined after cover designer has evaluated the amount of time required to provide the cover appropriate for the genre of book to be published and artistic direction from the author. A quote for services will be provided by the cover designer and no designing will commence until at which time the author has agreed in writing to pay for the cover design. This cost will be charged from Spencer Publishing, LLC to the author. The cover designer will work with the author directly and will give author one round of revisions at no additional cost.
Official Publication
We are currently accepting unsolicited manuscripts. Alternatively, we suggest you enter into our author coaching program and we will walk you through the process of publishing your own book. -Julie
What Spencer Publishing, LLC will do:
What Spencer Publishing, LLC will NOT do:
What Spencer Publishing, LLC will do:
- We can provide an ISBN through our small press publishing company (at no additional cost).
- We can provide basic formatting of the finished manuscript in paperback and digital format (including MOBI, EPUB, and PDF) at a nominal cost to the author.
- We can provide access to paid editing services at costs negotiated between the author, editor, and Spencer Publishing, LLC. Costs will be determined after the editor has evaluated the full manuscript and estimated how much work will be involved in editing and proofreading. A quote for services will be provided by the editor and no editing will commence until at which time the author has agreed in writing to pay for the editing. This cost will be charged from Spencer Publishing, LLC to the author. Note: in order to use an ISBN through Spencer Publishing, LLC, you must use editing services through this system and your manuscript must meet quality and content standards.
- We can provide access to paid cover design services at costs negotiated between the author, editor, and Spencer Publishing, LLC. Costs will be determined after cover designer has evaluated the amount of time required to provide the cover appropriate for the genre of book to be published and artistic direction from the author. A quote for services will be provided by the cover designer and no designing will commence until at which time the author has agreed in writing to pay for the cover design. This cost will be charged from Spencer Publishing, LLC to the author. The cover designer will work with the author directly and will give author one round of revisions at no additional cost.
- We will provide you with yearly reports of your sales by giving you exactly what Amazon gives us. You will see exactly how many books you’ve sold every single day. We won’t hide sales data from you.
- We will split royalties 50/50 and pay your royalties at the end of the calendar year in the month following the date that Amazon pays us, which is almost two months after royalties are earned. For example, final royalties earned between December 1-31st were paid to Spencer Publishing, LLC on February 28th. We will pay royalties to the authors as soon as possible approximately ten business days after that. That would be first or second week of April. Alternately, through our coaching program we can teach you how to publish on your own and receive royalties monthly from Amazon directly.
- We will provide complete transparency to the extent of the information provided to us from Amazon. If there is a particular report you’d like to see, we’ll try to find it for you.
- We will publish your book on Amazon as a paperback and Kindle file.
- We will provide a finished manuscript in paperback format (PDF) and digital format (including MOBI, EPUB), which you can publish on other publishing platforms. With an ISBN though Spencer Publishing, LLC, you have the legal right to publish your book on other platforms, but Spencer Publishing, LLC will only publishing your book on Amazon.
What Spencer Publishing, LLC will NOT do:
- We will not charge you to publish your book. Any publishing company asking you to pay for them to publish your book is not a publishing company; they are a vanity press.
- We will not retain any rights to your intellectual property. You wrote your words, and they belong to you as the author. All we are doing is putting your words into a publishable format and making them available for sale on Amazon.com. You will be given a final digital copy in the following formats: Microsoft Word file, MOBI (Kindle) file, Adobe PDF, and EPUB file. They are yours to be used as you choose forevermore.
- We will not guarantee even a single sale. Sales and promotions are up to you as the author. All we are doing is making them available for sale on Amazon.com
- We will not require you to purchase even a single book. If you want paperback copies of your book, they will be made available to you at a wholesale price. There will be a nominal service charge every time you want to order more books at the wholesale rate. Alternately, you can pay full price for your books through Amazon.
- We will not pay you an upfront bonus. If your book sells, we will pay you a royalty on every single sale.
- We will not guarantee any advertising. This may change in the future as our company grows, but at this time there is no one on our staff who will be charged with the task of conducting advertising campaigns.
- We will not guarantee your book will be featured on our website or social media accounts. That is left to our discretion. If your book is featured on our website at www.spencerpublishingllc.com, all royalties will be paid at the same split as if they were sold on Amazon.com