We offer a couple of publishing packages for your book, whether you are writing non-fiction, fiction, or even for a particular niche such as business, “how-to,” faith, or self-help.
INDIE PUBLISHING — We publish your book under our Critical Mass Books imprint, but you receive 100% of all Royalties.
PLATFORM TO PAGE — We start with your audio files and notes from your presentation and develop your book.
INDIE PUBLISHING
This program assumes you have finished your book and all it needs is some light editing. In many cases, we can take your project from edited manuscript to fully-published book in less than 30 days. You pay one flat fee (based on factors such as word count, page numbers, trim size, etc.).
INDIE PUBLISHING PACKAGE INCLUDES:
· Complete cover design & set up
· Complete interior design & layout
· Thorough editing, shaping, and polishing
· ISBN number & registration
· Creation of files: Mobi, EPub, pdf, and Word doc
· Publish e-book for Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble (Nook), Apple Books, Baker & Taylor, Kobo, ScribD, 24Symbols, Tolino, OverDrive, & Biblothecd
· Set up Online pages for print and e-book versions
· Publish print version (trade paperback) on Amazon
· Print Book will be accessible online at hundreds of outlets (including bookstores, chain stores, etc.)
· Author retains copyright and all rights
· Author receives 100% of ALL Royalties
· Author copies can be purchased direct in unlimited quantities for more than 70% off retail price
· Assistance with setting up platform for direct author sales
· Assistance with promotion on social media
· Creation of professional Press Release for book launch for you to use with distribution to database of more than 30,000 book reviewers, print, radio, television and internet media contacts
· In most cases, publication takes place within 60 days of contract initiation
PLATFORM TO PAGE
(For Members of the Clergy or Other Public Speakers & Teachers )
You speak. The words flow. The people listen. Then you do it all again a week later. Sometimes you feel good about the message. Sometimes you want to hide out for a few days.
Most preachers accept the fact that not all sermons are "keepers." In fact, some may be quite forgettable. Then there are some wonderful moments. Maybe you experience what the great preacher D. Martin Lloyd-Jones characterized as "unction." You come up with something special, maybe a single message, maybe an extended series. But once delivered, that's that.
However, that doesn't have to be the end of your sermon’s story.
Speaking of D. Martin Lloyd-Jones, who preached for 30 years at historic Westminster Chapel in London, did you know that most of his books, the ones regularly seen on a pastor's shelves, came almost verbatim from sermon transcripts? That's right, his words went from PULPIT to PAGE.
This is the ultimate publishing program for first time ministry-related authors. It includes everything “from soup to nuts.” All it takes is audio of your spoken message(s). We create transcripts.We then take the “DNA” of your spoken words and, using the developmental tools and expertise of experienced editors and published authors, work closely with you crafting your book. This package includes an element of ghost-writing, but the book still represents your words and thoughts. It is a labor-intensive process, but well worth the price.
Whether your book is 10,000 words or 50,000 words, we bring your ideas forward from your audio files into something ready to be published in print or digitally. The price we quote for your unique project includes all of the costs of transcription and editing.
The price we quote includes EVERYTHING in the INDIE PUBLISHING PACKAGE (above), PLUS:
Transcription of Audio Files
Shaping the Text Using “ghostwriting” Skills
Of course, you could choose to take your completed manuscript anywhere else to be published—even submitting it to a traditional publisher. In other words, using CMP to develop your project from audio to completed manuscript does not obligate you to use us to publish your book. In such a case, we would provide a quote for transcribing and “ghosting” the book. When completed, you would receive all the files, sufficient to take to any other publisher.
[NOTE: A typical four-part sermon series would translate into a book of approximately 20,000-28,000 words, give or take.]