Hi. My name is Anthony. I publish books because that is what I love doing. I am not doing it to make money. In fact, I have a day job. What that means is you will get honest truth and straight answers to your questions.

I am not going to set false expectations for you as to how successful your book is going to be. Instead, I will share with you that making a book successful is like making a new business successful. It takes a lot of work. The odds are greatly against you. Nonetheless, if you have the right ingredients and attitude, you can succeed.

After publishing 11 books, editing 15 books, and writing my own, I have a pretty good idea of what I am doing. I couldn't have made that claim 4 years ago. Just ask Trey Talley, our first author. In fact, that is probably the number one reason you should publish with me instead of doing it yourself - I have done it a bunch of times, and I have the tools in place to do it again.

If you are at the point where you feel like you are ready to publish your book, then you have undoubtedly spent hours of your time on your manuscript. Hopefully you have edited and edited the heck out of it. Now, you are at a crucial juncture. How do you turn your manuscript into a book? Let's be honest, most likely a traditional publisher is not going to pick up your book. (If they do, more power to you!) But you've invested your heart and soul into this book. You've come too far to not see it published. So, all of those do it yourself (DIY) or self publishers are starting to look really tempting. The problem is most of them are marketing scams. They are going to smoke and mirror what they will provide to you, they will overcharge you for it, and then you are going to be left with a terribly bitter taste in your mouth. I am going to tell you upfront everything I am going to do, how I am going to do it, and who I am going to do it with.

You may be asking yourself, "Wait, if you are telling me everything, why don't I just publish the book myself?" The answer is, "You absolutely could. If you choose to, I'm still happy to provide advice on how to do it. But why reinvent the wheel when I'm dirt cheap, and I've already done it a bunch of times?"

I am your best option for publishing a book. Here are the things that you don't have to do if you publish with me:

• Form a publishing company
• Buy a bunch of ISBN's
• File sales tax reports
• Keep track of your sales tax
• File franchise tax reports
• File public information reports
• File a company tax return
• Keep up with accounting
• Make sure the distributor isn't misreporting your royalties
• Buy Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to make a book cover
• Buy Adobe InDesign to layout your book
• Learn how to use Adobe InDesign
• Learn all of the specifications required to submit a book for printing
• Learn the customs for book page layout
• Buy multiple reference manuals for editing books
• Spend hours laying out the book pages

I am your cheapest option and will give you the most control of your manuscript over almost any other publisher.

The printer normally charges me $150 in set up fees for your book. If I don't get the submission right the first time, they start gouging me with rework fees. To cover that possibility, I charge $200 in set up. The reason I use this printer is because your book will automatically be available on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and hundreds of other book selling websites. Further, people can order the book in brick and mortar stores, though you will have to go the extra mile if you want those stores to actually carry stock. The printer also charges an annual distribution fee of $12, which I pass along at $16 (mainly to cover my postage for royalties).

If you are just doing a very simple text block style book, I charge $100 for page layout. In most cases, that means I'm working below minimum wage for you.

I assign my ISBN for $25 per ISBN. You are going to need that.

If you pay me $100, I'll save you the effort of sending in the application to copyright your book. Otherwise, you can do it yourself pretty easy.

I charge $0.02 per word for a copyedit, $0.04 per word for a substantive edit and $0.05 per word for a developmental edit. It's your choice whether you want to indulge in any of those. I always recommend at least a copyedit (which my lovely wife with an English major will most likely provide).

If (1) I really enjoy your book, and (2) you're willing to relinquish just a tiny bit of the tight-fisted grip authors have over their manuscript, I'll publish your book for free and give you a free developmental edit. Providing a developmental edit on a book that already has a solid foundation is the most enjoyable part of this process to me.

So if you're as cheap as me, you can publish your book for $325.

Sometimes the printer will give me deals where they have cheaper set up fees, in which case I'll pass those on. Register on the right to join the newsletter, and I'll let you know when that's happening. We have to have your book pretty much done to take advantage of it though.

What you are not getting with me is sales and marketing efforts. To be fair, you weren't going to get this from any publisher (unless your name is Stephen King or J.K. Rowling). A lot of self-publishers say they provide sales and marketing, but it is almost always overpriced, just-marketing-language garbage. I do provide you ACCESS to distribution, which is what everyone provides, so you aren't getting less than you would normally get. I don't want to try to convince you that you're getting more than you are getting like a lot of these companies do.

For any books that you buy directly from me or that someone buys off of this website, the formula is:
   ( ( Page Count * $0.015 per page ) + $2.50 per unit ) * ( 1 - Discount Percent )

If someone buys your book from Amazon.com or through the distribution channel, then the formula is:
   ( ( Page Count * $0.013 per page ) + $2.50 per unit ) * ( 1 - Discount Percent )

Pretend that you have a standard size book at 150 pages. The price per book would look like this:

If you sell your 150 page, paperback, standard size book for $15.00 and you have a 50% discount rate set for distribution, then that means someone will buy the book on Amazon.com for somewhere between $7.50 and $15.00. The distributor receives $7.50. The print charge for quantity 1 of the book through the channel is $4.45 using our example above, which leaves $3.05 per book as the royalty the author will receive.

If you sell the same 150 page, paperback, standard size book directly to a friend for $15.00 or someone orders the book on this website for $15.00, then the print charge is $4.75 + S&H. That leaves $10.25 as the author's royalty.

Also, a nifty perk: I have developed a simple tool that allows you to see your royalty statements whenever you want by registering on the site.

If you have stuck with me through all of this information, then you might as well go register on the right side. I'll give you a call, and we can talk about your book.