BelieversPress Publishing Services
Book Creation
Mentoring
Writing is often a solo performance. Eventually, though, most writers get to the place where they need some feedback and interaction from someone who knows the business. The coaches and mentors at BelieversPress will apply their profession knowledge to helping you determine your strengths and weaknesses. They not only point out issues, but teach you how to overcome them yourself. BelieversPress’s publishing mentors will help you take your writing career to the next level, brainstorming about brand, writing projects, and pitching.
Coaching
A publishing coach (also called a book coach, book shepherd, or publishing consultant) brings their years of experience in the book publishing industry to help you make your book the best it can be. A publishing coach can help you avoid common pitfalls, make wise decisions about the services your books needs, and help you target your book’s marketing efforts to the right audience.
Book Concept
How do you find out if your concept is ready for prime time? Would you feel more confident about your pitch if you could get some professional feedback from someone in the industry? These providers will give you the feedback you need to start pitching your book with a greater degree of success.
Ghostwriting
This service helps you Give Your Faith a Voice, even if you’re not a writer. Using your existing content (sermons, lectures, recorded stories, etc.) and/or interviews with you, our professional writers can help you craft a book you’ll be proud of.
Editorial
Editorial Review
Every writer is too close to their creation to see it as readers will see it. There is no substitute for the fresh perspective, experience and insight a professional editor adds to an author’s work. Because your readers and reviewers will notice errors, an editor ensures your work is ready for the marketplace. With this service, one of our editors will do a read through of your work and provide you with feedback on both structural issues and grammar / spelling errors. You’ll do the work of implementing the feedback in detail.
Substantive Edit
This stage entails putting pen to paper and providing consistent tone, pace, and readability-always with the aim of maintaining the author’s voice. Word usage, sentence structure, conflict and climax, sensory details, dialogue, and description are polished at this stage.
Copyedit
This stage involves a thorough read to correct any typographical errors, grammar issues, misspelling, and punctuation according to The Chicago Manual of Style and Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition.
Proofread
This stage involves a thorough read to correct any typographical errors, misspelling, and punctuation according to The Chicago Manual of Style and Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition.
Design
Cover Design
Your book cover is your billboard. You have just seconds to convince a reader to pick up your book in an eStore or bookstore. With all the noise in our modern world, more than ever your cover needs to grab readers’ attention and draw them in. The same BelieversPress design teams that work with you work with major Christian publishers to design best-selling books.
Page Design (Typesetting)
When readers “trip” on a amateurishly designed page, they may not be able to explain why, but something on that page interrupted their chain of thought. The reader counts this against the author. A typesetter (or book interior designer) is someone who ensures that the interior of your book gives readers what they expect; a seamless and ordered reading experience that compares with professionally published books. The result is a book that is appealing, readable, and ready to publish.
ISBN
ISBNs cannot be transferred on an individual basis. If a you want to be identified as the publisher, if you want to be able to take your book wherever you want to for production or distribution, you need to have the ISBN registered to you. That’s why BelieversPress always purchases ISBNs and has them registered to you.
eBook Conversion
Working from your digital files, we will create properly formatted e-book files in the industry standard ePub and popular Kindle format.
Production
Book Printing
Go direct to the printing source! Bethany Press is a major Christian book printer that produces over 30% of the Christian book industry’s best-selling Christian paperback books. When you print with us, you’re going direct which means no middlemen and no extra markups, making the printing experience both simple and affordable.
Print-on-Demand (POD)
Our POD paperback manufacturing plant is located within the Anchor Distributors book distribution facility, combining the best print-on-demand technology with the global reach of an established Christian book distributor.
Marketing & Publicity
Marketing
Customized graphics for use in email signatures, on blogs and forums, strategies for raising your books profile, plus training so that you are able to effectively set up and utilize the available social media platforms to get maximum online exposure for your title.
Book Trailers & Videos
A high-quality, professional book trailer will help you to reach a broader audience and present your title/content in a way that not only creates reader interest, but also helps build important momentum for your book launch.
Publicity
Execute a targeted publicity campaign to ensure your title launch gets the attention that it deserves. From press releases to local and national media outlets to radio and TV interviews and everything in between, BelieversPress has your publicity needs covered.
eStore / Distribution
Retail Distribution (includes author eStore)
No one gets into publishing to have to worry about warehousing and fulfilling orders. Having your books distributed enables you to focus on writing and selling books and helps you save time and reduce costs. BelieversPress has partnered with Anchor Distributors to create a simple book distribution program tailored to the needs of authors, ministries, and small publishers.
OnDemandplus (includes author eStore)
Use the access offered by the OnDemandPlus program to distribute your book to Christian retail, Amazon.com, and the general market (including Ingram Distributors). As your sales increase, you’ll have the opportunity to switch from Print-on-Demand to Print-to-Replenish in order to take advantage of the lower unit cost of a longer print run. The safety of Print-on-Demand combined with the flexibility of working with a long-run printer.
