Publishing Checklist - Filament Publishing

Stage One – Your Objectives

We carry out an initial fact finding call on zoom with a publisher to help you answer these questions. This is followed by a second call to discuss the answers.

What does success as an author means for you?
What are your expectations from this project?
Are you publishing primarily to make money? To raise your profile? To educate? To entertain? What are your objectives?
What skill sets do you have to help raise your profile and build a following?
Who is your perfect reader? Why will they choose your book? How can you reach them? How will they find you?
What is your genre and niche? What key words will people be searching for to find your book?
Describe the main offering of the book
Nobody owes any of us a living. Are you prepared to invest in achieving your success?

Stage Two – Submission

We do a digital audit of your presence online. How visible are you in the marketplace? What are your numbers?
Commercial Evaluation. Can your book make money. Is your project viable?
Record an Author Backstory interview on zoom and create a transcription. A press release will be written by a professional NUJ journalist
Write a press release for feature editors.
Have your manuscript evaluated by the Editorial Team
Interview with a publisher.
Final evaluation. Acceptance of rejection

If accepted, your book with have the imprint of Filament Publishing Instead of it being seen as self-published. This adds credibility to you as an author.

We offer a unique Curated Publishing service to bring your book to market which keeps you, the author in charge, but you are not on your own. You can draw on the knowledge and experience of a past Publisher of the Year with 25 years’ experience at your disposal.

Stage Three – Book in Production

Set date of publication
Set project milestones leading up to publication
Set up supply chain and distribution partners
Full Grammarly manuscript check
Art Direction and design advice
Book style and design proposals
Select the book quality and print specification
Create Pre-matter pages content
Cover text, title and blurb
Back cover blurb content
All images supplied must meet our minimum pecification
Create the book design and layout
Proofreading
Book categories, key words, genre
Create Meta Data and upload to book trade databases.
Issue ISBN
Agree retail price for the book trade
Author approval of book layout
Upload to Amazon
Create eBook version and upload to KDP
Select print partners
Print management and QC
Create sample book for approval

Stage Four – Market Access and Distribution

Market access – upload the title to all book trade databases
Set up supply chain and distribution partners
Upload to Amazon
Create eBook version and upload to KDP
Create Advance Information sheet for book buyers and retailers
Create press releases for news and features
Vuelio media database access.
Create a targeted list of journalists and media and send out press release
Send copy of the book to the British Library and the Legal Deposit libraries
Online Book Launch event using EventBrite and Zoom. Hosted and managed for you,

Costings

Our full range of services include;

CORE PUBLISHING SERVICES (applies to every project)

Publisher Evaluation of your fiction or non-fiction manuscript and its commercial potential. Can your book be profitable? Is there a market for it? You need to know!

Market positioning – help with choosing the most productive categories and genres to be searched for. Compiling and choosing the right keywords and searchable Metadata.

Market Access – publishing to Amazon KDP and also Publishing to book trade with international ISBN, creating metadata and uploading to all the book trade databases. setting up distribution and global supply chain. Using Book Trade Print to Order system.

Creating the Book Specification – Helping you make the right choices of book size, paper quality, cover weight and embellishments.

Quality Control and print management. Providing only the best quality books for you to sell with pride.

Book Launch Countdown – Mentoring you through the pre-launch phase of your book

Core publishing service £2,000

Professional book design and page layout. Making the most of the pre-matter pages to support the customer’s buying decision. Your choice of font, layout and style. Based on standard book of up to 200 pages / 60.000 words. Final checking. £1,000

eBook Creation – Creating MOBI and ePUB files and uploading them to Amazon Kindle £300

Professional Book Cover design.

Effective book covers do not necessarily explain what the book contains! Instead, they are designed to resonate with what the potential reader is looking for. This is conveyed using a combination of the heading, the title and the strapline. This important process is arrived at collectively between the author and the publisher – before even starting on the design! £300.

Author Website

Build you following and your tribe. Be found for what you are passionate about. Sell your books directly to your fans without having to give a discount to a book shop. Author websites from £650

Join our Author Community

You will benefit from the advice of our existing successful authors who are happy to share their publishing experiences with you and to give their advice. You will be able to join our monthly online Author Masterclass events and learn about all aspects of the publishing process.

“It is no longer about what you get from your publisher, it is what you become as a result of working together.”

We have a big ambition for you. We want you to become self-sufficient, knowledgeable and confident in all the processes you are going to need to become a successful and profitable author.