Answers to what authors ask, not what printers ask.

An NDA is signed before you send us anything, including on the free call. Your writer signs one too. We never use client work as a sample without written permission, which is why our published portfolio grows slowly — everything in it is there because the author said yes.

Tell us early — that's the whole reason chapters arrive on a fixed schedule instead of all at once. A stated number of rewrites per chapter is written into the agreement. If the writer fit is wrong, we reassign once at no extra cost within the first weeks.

A self-publishing service, and we say so plainly. You own the ISBN, the copyright, and the retail accounts, and you keep 100% of royalties. Anyone in this category calling themselves a "publishing house" while charging you to publish is describing the same thing with a better word.

Yes. Bring a print-ready PDF and use the calculator above, or start from a free template. Minimum order applies, a physical proof goes out before any run, and delivery is tracked to any US or UK address.

Because a permanent discount banner tells you the list price was invented. Our rates are on this page, they're the same for everyone, and they don't move because you hesitated.

The calculator uses a published rate per word or per copy, shown as you move the sliders. Every estimate becomes binding within ±10% once we've seen your outline or manuscript — no renegotiating once work starts.

Chicago and Glasgow. It matters mainly for scheduling calls and where printed proofs and copies ship from — most work itself happens over video calls and a shared folder, wherever you are.

That's most of who ends up here. The discovery calls and outline stage exist specifically so a first-time author isn't expected to already know what a chapter breakdown or a trim size is.

Yes. Every core service is priced and booked on its own; nothing requires bundling with the others. Most standalone services (marketing, web copy, and the rest) also run independently of the four core services.

You keep everything delivered up to that point — outlines, drafted chapters, a style sheet, whatever milestone you paid for. Nothing is held back or licensed to us; it was never ours to keep.

Yes — ghostwriting is a normal, common arrangement, not a loophole. The agreement you sign states plainly that you own the finished manuscript and can publish it under your own name; the writer's job is the words, not the credit.

A ghostwriter writes the words; the author is the credited creator whose name is on the cover and who owns the copyright. Hiring one doesn't change who the book legally belongs to — that's settled in the agreement before a chapter is drafted.

Yes — most of the work happens over video calls and a shared folder regardless of where you are. Chicago and Glasgow just decide where a phone rings and where printed proofs ship from, not who we'll work with.