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Publishing packages

Four routes to a properly published book

Each package is a written scope with a fixed price, a schedule and a deliverables list you approve before anything starts. No package includes a promise about sales, because no honest one could.

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  • Fixed written scope
  • Adjustable at any point
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Foundation

A complete, professional first edition

First-time authors with a finished, self-edited manuscript who want a properly produced paperback and eBook without paying for services they are not ready to use.

From $1,690

Placeholder price. $400 reserves your slot; balance invoiced against milestones.

  • Professional proofread, up to 60,000 words included
  • Documented style sheet applied consistently throughout
  • Original front, spine and back cover design
  • Two initial cover concepts, one selected and refined
  • Paperback, Reflowable eBook (EPUB) for major reading apps
  • One ISBN assigned for the paperback edition
  • Listing submitted to major online retailers
  • Author profile page in the Winfrey Publishing bookstore
  • Timeline: 10–14 weeks from manuscript handover
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Craft

Deeper editorial and a design-led jacket

Authors who want their manuscript genuinely improved before it is produced — a full copyedit, more design exploration, and a hardcover edition alongside the paperback.

From $3,450

Placeholder price. $750 reserves your slot; balance invoiced against milestones.

  • Full copyedit, up to 90,000 words included
  • Tracked changes plus an editorial summary letter
  • Three original cover concepts, one selected and refined
  • Competitive category research informing the design brief
  • Paperback, Hardcover with dust jacket, Reflowable eBook (EPUB) for major reading apps
  • Three ISBNs assigned (paperback, hardcover, eBook)
  • Listing submitted to major online retailers
  • Author profile page in the Winfrey Publishing bookstore
  • Timeline: 16–22 weeks from manuscript handover
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Signature

Full production with a supported launch

Authors treating the book as a serious project — a developmental edit before the copyedit, a designed launch, and marketing activity in the weeks around publication.

From $6,900

Placeholder price. $1,500 reserves your slot; balance invoiced against milestones.

  • Developmental edit with a written structural report
  • Editorial consultation call to discuss the report
  • Cover design phase with unlimited concept exploration
  • Category and comparable-title research pack
  • Paperback, Hardcover with dust jacket, Reflowable eBook (EPUB) for major reading apps, Large-print paperback edition set up on request
  • Up to four ISBNs assigned across editions
  • Global print-on-demand across our full fulfilment network
  • 90-day launch campaign managed by a marketing coordinator
  • Timeline: 24–34 weeks from manuscript handover, depending on your revision time
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Laureate

Our most complete publishing program

Authors publishing at the highest production standard — illustrated or complex books, audiobook and translation-ready assets, an author website, and a full year of marketing support.

From $12,500

Placeholder price. $2,500 reserves your slot; balance invoiced against milestones.

  • Manuscript assessment before any work is scoped
  • Developmental edit with a written report and two consultation calls
  • Cover design phase with unlimited exploration and photography direction
  • Bespoke interior design for complex, illustrated or colour layouts
  • Paperback and hardcover, Colour or premium-stock print run quoted separately, Reflowable eBook and fixed-layout eBook where the design requires it, Audiobook produced with a professional narrator, Print-ready assets prepared for translation licensing
  • ISBNs assigned across every edition and format
  • Global print-on-demand plus offset print coordination where suitable
  • Twelve-month marketing programme with a named coordinator
  • Timeline: 9–15 months from manuscript handover, scoped precisely after review
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About these prices. Prices shown are illustrative placeholders and are confirmed in writing before any work begins. Final pricing depends on manuscript length, complexity and the services you select. Production timelines are estimates. Actual schedules vary with manuscript length, revision rounds, author response time and third-party retailer processing.

Choosing between them

The honest way to decide

Ignore the feature counts for a moment. The real question is how much editorial attention your manuscript needs, because that is what changes the book. Everything else is production.

Choose Foundation if…

  • Your manuscript has already been through a serious edit elsewhere
  • You are publishing a later book in an established series
  • You want a properly produced paperback and eBook without services you are not ready for

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Choose Craft if…

  • This is your first book and the prose has never been professionally edited
  • You want a hardcover alongside the paperback
  • You want your book orderable by bookstores and libraries

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Choose Signature if…

  • You suspect there is a structural problem you cannot name
  • The book matters commercially or professionally
  • You want launch activity actually managed rather than listed

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Choose Laureate if…

  • Your book is illustrated, colour-heavy or otherwise complex
  • You need an audiobook, a website and a year of support
  • The project has hard external deadlines someone needs to own

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By book type

The same packages, weighted for your category

A children's author and an academic author are weighing entirely different things. These pages reframe the same four packages around what matters in each category.

Fiction Publishing Packages Novels live or die on pacing, voice and a cover that tells a reader in two seconds what… View packages Nonfiction Publishing Packages Nonfiction is judged on whether a reader can find what they need and trust what they read. Structure… View packages Children's Publishing Packages Children's books are illustration projects with text attached. The cost, the schedule and the risk all sit with… View packages Business Publishing Packages A business book is usually a credibility instrument before it is a product. That changes which parts of… View packages
Questions

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All FAQs

Craft, because it is the point at which a full copyedit is included — and editing changes a book more than anything else you can buy. First-time novelists and nonfiction authors both tend to land there.

Yes. Upgrading mid-project is common and you pay only the difference. Moving down is possible before the relevant work begins.

Print run costs beyond print-on-demand setup, third-party licence fees for images or quoted material, advertising spend, and ISBN purchases if you want to own a block yourself. All of these are itemised in your written scope rather than discovered later.

No. Every service is available individually through the services store, and you can combine any of them into a custom plan. Packages exist because most authors find a defined scope easier to budget for.

Because this site is being prepared for launch and the published rate card has not been finalised. Your actual price is confirmed in writing after we have seen your manuscript, and it does not change unless you change the scope.

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We will tell you which package your book actually needs

Send us the manuscript. If a cheaper package would serve you better, we will say so — it happens often enough that we would rather you heard it from us.

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