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Advocate House |
We offer you complete control over every aspect of the publishing process and work with you to produce your book in the formats right for you: paperback, hardcover, electronic (e-book) and Print on Demand (POD).
Prejudice against independent authors is rooted in falsely labeled tradition. Going back in history (chapbooks, Walden, Twain, and a list of hundreds) the famous and best were independent or self - publishers.
Why do we chose to package books for self-publishers rather
than go the traditional publishing route of buying mss. and offering royalties?
One of the reasons is, of course, that self-publishers stand to retain 80% of
the income from their books rather than netting a mere 10% (+-) in royalties.
For them to maximize their income they must participate in the promotion and
marketing, and they are more likely to think creatively when they are footing
the bills. To help them achieve maximum income, we offer a menu of promotional
and marketing services. Not each service offered is appropriate for each book.
We advise clients which steps are best for each work. This partnership of author/publisher
tends to keep books on bookstore shelves longer, while making use of non-traditional
bookselling avenues. It also speeds publication time, often reducing it from
the traditional 12-24 months to a mere 3-4 months from the time we receive the
finalized manuscript....useful, especially for time-sensitive manuscripts.
Services available:
One-stop shopping capabilities include:
Printing/binding; Fulfillment; Web Sales; Composition; E-publishing.
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Book Preparation Editing (copy editing and line editing) Research and Fact Checking Indexing Book doctoring and re-writing Illustrations Cover and interior design Processing of: copyright, ISBN, Bar Code, |
Publishing Printing: hardcover and trade paperback: conventional or on-demand printing Electronic formatting and placement on the web CD-ROM conversion Creating your own imprint
Marketing Presentation to major book distributors Book Reviews: preparation and placement News Releases: created to announce your book All our books are distributed to libraries and book stores by Ingram (the worlds' largest book distributor) and by Baker & Taylor. All our books appear on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble online, and on many other online retailers. We publish two catalogs a year and we promote our books by arranging book signings, talk show appearances for authors, book reviews, magazine article placements, and with paid marketing comunications efforts.
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Initial phone consultation free.
| Thereafter consulting will be billed at $75 per hour. This fee will be included in the overall cost of the project once a contract is signed. |
Famous authors who self-published:
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
Beatrix Potter - Tale of Peter Rabbit
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Apes
Others who self-published some of their work:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Washington Irving, William Blake
Mark Twain, T.S. Elliot, Lord Byron, Carl Sandburg, Zane Grey
Best-seller Modern authors who self-published:
James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy (self-published 1st printing and sold it to New Age stores.)
Richard Paul Evans - The Christmas Box
John Grisham - A Time to Kill (sold books himself from the trunk of his car.)
From Self-published books to movies:
Legally Blonde, became a successful movie starring Reese Witherspoon
A Long March to Freedom, a book about Third World kidnapping, became the Russell
Crowe movie, "Proof of Life."
Christopher Paolini's self-published fantasy book Eragon was picked up by a
major publisher and made into a movie.
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The benefits of
self-publishing For further information: FAQs
For details e-mail: advohouse@aol.com
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Look at the Advocate House books: Click here for Low Resolution 2007 catalog (1 meg. file) (In Acrobat PDF format) Click here for High Resolution 2007 catalog (20+ meg. file) (In Acrobat PDF format)
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What others are saying about Advocate House:
We are very pleased with
the results and all the hard work you have done and are continuing to do. Thank
you so much for all of it.
-Tina Hyder, Author: There's a
Tree in The Meadow
As a full-time writer, I'm for "old
fashioned" self-publishing all the way. I recommend it for any
writer who wants to increase their opportunity to make money and
maintain creative control.
Self-publishing is also a good way for writers to learn about the
publishing business overall. And I see no degradation to any author
who chooses this route. In fact, writers who do all of the work
themselves and sell their books are very well respected.
Kudos to Ms. Vaughn for inspiring writers to see self-publishing as
a viable, lucrative alternative. She proves there is light in the
writing tunnel.
-Sonya Carmichael Jones
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