The questions
we hear most.

We work with each author to find a structure that fits, project fees, retainers, or hybrid arrangements depending on the scope and your situation. Whatever we land on is written in plain language up front. Retailer payouts go to your bank, in your name, on your accounts.

You do, fully, exclusively, in perpetuity. We don't ask for any rights in our contracts. We don't even ask for promotional rights. Anything you see us doing on social with a book, we asked permission for.

Yes. On final invoice, you receive the source files for everything we made: layered Photoshop or Illustrator covers, InDesign interiors, EPUB source, metadata sheets. Stock-photo licenses are bought through your account, in your name.

We quote per project, not per hour. After a 20-minute intake call, we send you a single-page line-item quote, for example: ebook formatting $850, print interior $1,200, cover concept and execution $1,400, distribution setup $400. You pick what you want. 50% on signing, 50% on launch.

Rough range: a basic novel-length ebook plus print plus cover plus distribution package lands around $3,500 to $5,500. Heavily illustrated, technical, or unusually structured books cost more. We tell you up front.

Three rounds of revisions are included on every deliverable. If we're past three rounds and you still aren't happy, that's on us, we keep working until it's right, or we refund the unbilled portion and part as friends.

Five to seven weeks for a standard novel, one week of intake, three to four weeks of production, one week of launch. Heavily illustrated books, anthologies, or books with complex front matter add time.

If you have a hard launch date, tell us up front. We'll either commit to it in writing, or we'll be honest that we can't.

We don't edit. What we can do is run your manuscript through our LLM-powered review pipeline and send you a structured notes document — structural feedback, pacing flags, consistency checks, line-level suggestions — that you can act on yourself or hand to an editor. For full editorial work (developmental, line, copy), we'll help you scope the search and vet the candidates you're considering, but we expect most authors will arrive with an editor already.

Yes, and it's something we do often. Indie authors come to us after a bad experience with templates or assistants and want a proper second edition. We can take down old listings, re-register ISBNs, redo the cover and interior, and relaunch under the same or a new title.

Absolutely. Backlists actually get more efficient, we build a series template once and apply it across titles. Talk to us about volume pricing if you have three or more books to bring over.

EPUB 3 (reflowable, the universal standard) and KPF (Kindle's preferred format). We can also produce fixed-layout EPUBs for illustrated books, MOBI for legacy Kindle support, and PDF for direct downloads.

Every file passes EPUBCheck and Ace by DAISY. Every file is previewed in Kindle Previewer, Apple Books, a Kobo emulator, and a screen reader before delivery.

Yes. By default, every ebook ships WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, semantic structure, alt text on images, proper reading order, language tags, and a navigable table of contents. The European Accessibility Act (2025) and Apple Books both require this; we treat it as the minimum bar regardless.

Not in-house, no. We don't run a recording studio and we don't pretend to. Once you have a finished recording, we can handle the post-production touches and distribution through Findaway Voices, which feeds Audible, Spotify, and library systems. If you don't have a narrator yet, we'll help you scope the search and vet anyone you're considering.

You should, and you do. We do uploads under your existing accounts, never ours. If you don't have one yet, we'll set yours up with you on a screen share. Royalties go to your bank, tax forms come to you, and the relationships are yours.

Distribution covers global English-language markets by default — North America, UK, Australia, India, EU, Japan — through the major retailers and IngramSpark wholesale. Translation and foreign-rights brokering isn't something we do; if you want to pursue them, that's a job for a literary agent.

Email us. Single-line corrections are turned around within 48 hours, free, for the lifetime of the book. Larger fixes (anything beyond a handful of pages) go through a small reflow fee.

You get a monthly email with a clean PDF summary: units sold, revenue, returns, and a per-channel and per-territory breakdown. We pull the underlying retailer statements, reconcile them, and flag anything that looks off. Tax-ready CSV exports any time you ask.

Then you switch. We'll hand over every source file, every login, every metadata record, in clean folders. The whole reason we built V3s this way is so authors never feel hostage to a vendor, including us. If we aren't the right fit, we'd rather you say so and keep us as a referral than stay unhappy.

No, and we'd be bad at it. We can build you a launch-day email checklist, set up newsletter integrations, and design retailer-page A+ content, that's where we stop. For real PR and marketing, we'll point you to specialists.