Full Service
Limelight Publishing
Founded on the idea that publishing is not a daunting task, at Limelight Publishing, we help you get your book from an initial idea into print. With experienced professionals, we design and distribute your book exactly the way you want. Everyone has a unique story to tell and we are dedicated to the complete process; from manuscript to print, through to a unique cover design, distribution and sales management, as well as social media marketing, Limelight stops at nothing to ensure your book is exactly what you have always envisioned.
Bublish
Bublish offers all the services an author needs to self-publish professionally: editing, cover design, interior layout, eBook conversion, marketing, and advertising. We also have book bubbles, our award-winning DIY marketing technology that enables authors to share insight-enriched book excerpts on your favorite social channels. During our Weekend Reader Marathon, we share the latest bubbles with 800,000 readers each week. You'll be able to see where and when readers engaged as well as which retailer they visited to learn more about your book.
Book Launchers
Book Launchers is a professional self-publishing team, helping you write, edit, design, publish, and promote your non-fiction book. Authors keep all rights and revenue.
Fiverr
At Fiverr you can hire freelancers that will help you take your vision from concept to bestseller. Anywhere from editing your first draft to designing your book cover, you can find the person that will accompany you through your book publishing journey.
From Manuscript To Book
Kate Winter provides individualized and comprehensive services to independent authors on the exciting journey From Manuscript To Book. Whether you need copyediting, interior formatting, cover design, ebook conversion, a matching author website, or all of the above and more, Kate will make sure your book is beautiful, professional, and ready for the world - as well as offering guidance through every step of the self-publishing process.
Gatekeeper Press
Gatekeeper Press is the world’s premier self-publishing service provider. Services include editing, cover design, Paperback/Hardcover/eBook Publishing & Distribution, illustrations, plus Copyright and LCCN Registration. Authors retain 100% rights, earn 100% revenue, and have 100% control. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Brit Lashae
Brit Lashae is a Book-Writing Coach for women READY to write their stories & testimony into a book. This allows the writer to not only share her story & testimony but also the exact process and framework of her journey. As your book-writing coach, she provides a structured and organized writing process, one-on-one personalized guidance, and most importantly support in choosing your story idea, completing your book outline, or manuscript for your book! Your voice matters. Your story matters. Your testimony will inspire others. She works with women who are ready to amplify their voices and story and release their testimony to the world through book-writing.
Passion Project
Through one-on-one coaching, feedback and accountability, Cat Margulis helps authors start AND finish their book, sharing everything she has learned over 25+ years as a journalist, writer, editor and content strategist to help you finish your book so you can get your story and message out into the world. As your book coach, Cat makes the process effortless and fun, so that the journey is as fulfilling as the finished product. From coaching to editing to acting as your personal self-publishing sherpa, she’ll give you the space to play and explore, while holding you to your goals and timelines. She’ll also share whatever writing tips and tools she thinks will support you in the moment, so that you don’t get overwhelmed or waste time worrying about whether you’re doing any of it right. Cat will guide you the whole way through and walk you right up to the finish line—whether that’s querying agents and publishers, or supporting you through the self-publishing process to help make your book a success.
Publish Your Purpose
Publish Your Purpose is a hybrid publisher of non-fiction books. Our authors are thought leaders, experts in their fields, and visionaries paving the way to social change—from food security to anti-racism. As an LGBTQ+ and women-owned B Corporation™, our mission is to elevate the voices often excluded from traditional publishing. We intentionally seek out authors and storytellers with diverse backgrounds, life experiences, and unique perspectives to publish books that will make an impact in the world.
Star Maker Marketing
Star Maker Marketing offers financial advisors and business owners the opportunity to build authority and increase business opportunities with a lead-generation book. Home of the "BOOK It!" Home Study Program, Star Maker Marketing offers book coaching, ghostwriting and editing services, formatting and design, book cover design, and marketing strategies that will amplify your reach. From a book's concept to fulfillment, we'll take your dream of becoming an author and make it a reality. Click the "Learn More" button and schedule a conversation.
Summit Book Services
Summit helps all types of organizations in the book creation industry grow and prosper with our powerful outsourcing solution that’s simple to plug into your workflow. With our easy-to-use Workspace, you will have immediate access to a selection of professional quality book creation services you can use at any time from anywhere. Our strict quality control production standards will enable you to deliver an expertly produced book file to your client without the operational cost and challenge of doing it yourself. See how easy it is to increase your business productivity so you can focus on your business creativity. Create your free Workspace today!
Tell Tell Poetry
Tell Tell Poetry is a poetry resource site that turns wannabe poets into published authors by providing line edits, proofreading, book cover designs, interior layouts, and self-publishing support.
Writing Tools
Daily Prompt
Daily Prompt provides you with a new creative writing prompt every day to help you beat writer’s block and kickstart your daily writing habit. You can share your work with others, ask for specific feedback, and build your writing community.
Plot Factory
Plot Factory is an online story planner that lets writers plan, organize, and write their stories & universes. With Plot Factory, you can craft your universe, forge rich characters and write amazing stories.
Prolifiko
Supercharge your writing! Prolifiko is a productivity coach for writers determined to finish. Feel more positive, keep focused and meet all your deadlines with our science-backed online coaching programs and courses.
ProWritingAid
Great writing, made easier. Become the writer you always wanted to be. ProWritingAid uses Artificial Intelligence to catch more spelling and grammar errors. It enhances the strength and clarity of your writing with style and readability improvements. It also helps you build your writing technique with in-app explanations, videos and quizzes. Join over one million writers who already use ProWritingAid to self-edit like a pro.
Redbud Writing Project
Write. Workshop. Repeat. The Redbud Writing Project is a creative writing organization that offers classes in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, script-writing, and more. Redbud also offers manuscript consultations and coaching, either in-person or online, for writers at any stage of their process.
Editing & Formatting
Editorial Freelancers Association
The Editorial Freelancers Association is a national organization of more than 2,600 freelance editorial specialists who can help you take your manuscript to the next level. We help writers understand the editorial process and connect them to editors through our free Member Directory and Job List.
Ebook Launch
Looking to have your book professionally edited before you self-publish? Ebook Launch has a team of experienced and affordable editors to help. Ebook Launch also offers formatting services for epub, digest and trade print formatting. Our services for editing and formatting are simple, fast, and affordable. Get a free quote today.
Melissa Rose Design
Melissa Rose Design is a professional graphic design studio specializing in branding, website, and marketing design for food bloggers & creators. After starting her career designing food magazines at Better Homes & Gardens, Melissa loves infusing her professional experience into designing custom, engaging recipe cookbooks & eBooks for content creators. As a food blogger herself, she understands the intricacies of recipe development & publishing and can help you create the magazine-worthy cookbook of your dreams!
Technica
Technica Editorial is passionate about creating a positive experience for all authors. Our thoughtful and experienced editors are individually assigned to meet your needs, and offer a full range of editorial publishing services — from copyediting, page layout and design, formatting, proofreading, to print and online deliverables. We’re here to help!
Tell Tell Poetry
Tell Tell Poetry is a poetry resource site that turns wannabe poets into published authors by providing line edits, proofreading, book cover designs, interior layouts, and self-publishing support.
Write One Publications
Looking for professional developmental editing services to help refine your manuscript before self-publishing? Stefanie Newell-Ross, an experienced and reliable editor, offers comprehensive developmental editing services to authors looking to elevate their work. Her editing services help authors refine their ideas, clarify their message, and improve the overall structure and flow of their manuscript. She prides herself on providing fast and affordable editing services, with a focus on quality and customer satisfaction. Contact her today for a free quote and take the first step towards publishing success!
Cover Design
Bailey Designs Books
As an independent designer and illustrator, Bailey works directly with authors to create eye-catching and unique illustrated book covers. Commission Bailey for your own custom cover design, or visit her shop to see a range of premade book-covers for authors on a limited budget.
Ebook Launch
Since 2011, Ebook Launch has been designing beautiful book covers for independent authors and publishers. Let us use this experience to design your best-selling cover design to publish on Lulu.
Fiverr
At Fiverr you can hire freelancers that will help you take your vision from concept to bestseller. Anywhere from editing your first draft to designing your book cover, you can find the person that will accompany you through your book publishing journey.
GetCovers
GetCovers - book cover design services that don't break the bank. Our mission is to help all authors get published regardless of the budget. That's why our price packages range from $5 to $25.
MiblArt
MiblArt is a book cover design company for self-published authors. We believe that book cover design is one of the most important marketing tools and help authors get the best out of it.
Audio Books
Findaway Voices
At Findaway Voices we have a whole team in place to help you create professional audiobooks. Let us connect you with the perfect narrator, manage your production from end-to-end, and prepare your digital audio files so they meet the technical specifications of every audiobook seller in the world.
Pro Audio Voices
The audiobook experts at Pro Audio Voices start with your goal then customize each project with the support you need to bring your vision to life with excellence. We offer production options: - full cast with music and/or sound effects - children’s books with music and/or sound effects - single narrator - narrating your own audiobook - narration in other languages Then we help leverage it through a range of marketing options to reach your goals. Our team helps you get from where you are to where you want to go.
Book Blurbs
Book Blurb Writing Service
When it comes to writing a book, “The End” is just the beginning. Let our team apply our years of marketing expertise as we create a book description that is designed to turn browsers into buyers. We can write book descriptions, also known as book blurbs, for many types of fiction and non-fiction genres as we employ our marketing savvy to mesmerize shoppers in an effort to spur sales of your book. Take advantage of our author discount that's designed to reward loyal customers who return to us time and again to order additional descriptions.
Tell Tell Poetry
Tell Tell Poetry is a poetry resource site that turns wannabe poets into published authors by providing line edits, proofreading, book cover designs, interior layouts, and self-publishing support.
Translations
Sol
At Sol, we instantly connect you with a translator, so that your work can be shared across the world. Click over to our website, fill out a 2-minute form, and we will match you with an interpreter who is culturally-aware and thrilled to help. Whether you just want a 30-minute consultation or are ready to send over your work, we can't wait to hear from you.
Marketing
Duett
Run by marketing pro Allea Grummert, Duett is a team of email strategists and copywriters dedicated to helping you share your message with your audience through automated email sequences and launch campaigns. They work with online content creators who have an established audience and are looking to build their business, grow their community, drive sales to a service or product, and stay top of mind with their biggest fans (their email list!).
Written Word Media
Your book marketing hub – Written Word Media makes effective book marketing easy for authors. Send your book to targeted lists of readers with email promos on five brands: Freebooksy, Bargain Booksy, Red Feather Romance, NewInBooks & Audio Thicket, and easily run full-service Amazon & Facebook ads with Reader Reach Ads. Written Word Media has helped over 37,000 authors find their fans, and is proud to be a cornerstone of book marketing for authors everywhere. Already a Written Word Media customer? Save 10% on your promos and grab your ideal promo dates before anyone else by becoming a Premium Member.
Author Website Support
Pub Site
Pub Site is the DIY website platform that allows every author, regardless of budget, to have a great-looking, professional website. Created by the book industry veterans at FSB Associates, Pub Site is the easy-to-use DIY website builder developed specifically for books and authors. Imagine using the same website platform used by authors like Tom Clancy, Robin Cook, Janet Dailey, and hundreds more.
Reviews
Booklife
BookLife is a website from Publishers Weekly dedicated to indie authors. The site provides a free and easy way to submit self-published books to Publishers Weekly for review, and offers editorial content—success stories, interviews, author profiles, how-to pieces, news, and features—geared toward helping indie authors achieve their goals. Whether an author is focused on writing and editing, art and design, or marketing and distribution, BookLife has valuable resources that can help along the way.
Chanticleer
Chanticleer offers editorial book reviews for book launches and book promotion for print, audio, and e-pubs. Our prestigious Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs) recognize today's best books with 16 fiction divisions and 6 non-fiction divisions. We also host an annual authors conference that focuses on the business and marketing side of book publishing along with advance writing craft. The CIBA banquet and ceremony takes place on the Saturday evening of the conference.
Foreword Reviews
Foreword Reviews is dedicated to the “art” of book reviewing. With a review team of talented writers who are experts in their fields, our book-industry journal is designed for a discerning readership—in recognition of the fact that quality paper, generous use of white space, and creative design encourages a time investment by readers.
Community
Big Black Chapters
Big Black Chapters is a writing collective and community dedicated to showcasing and increasing awareness of literary works created and published by indie authors of color. We show our support by sharing self-publishing advice, writing tips, prompts, creative writing exercises and other resources. Big Black Chapters is more than a community of #OwnVoices storytellers. We also provide professional services such as editing, marketing, book promos, cover design, proofreading and formatting. Join the tribe and connect with a diverse group of supportive authors of color.
Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
CLMP exists to serve magazines, presses, Internet publishers, and chapbook and zine publishers mission-driven to publish literature. Independent literary publishers make up an underserved, uniquely vulnerable and essential field that connects the greatest diversity of writers to equally diverse communities of readers. Since 1967, CLMP has worked to bring these literary publishers together to form a mutually supportive community that is often at the vanguard of progress. CLMP provides technical assistance, facilitates peer-to-peer learning and group action, and builds bridges to connect diverse communities of literary stakeholders.
Independent Book Publishers Association
The Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) is a professional trade association for independent and author publishers. Our mission is to lead and serve the independent publishing community through advocacy, education, and tools for success. Our vision is a world where every independent publisher has the access, knowledge, and tools needed to professionally engage in all aspects of an inclusive publishing industry.
Nonfiction Authors Association
The Nonfiction Authors Association is a vibrant and content-rich community for writers to connect, exchange ideas, and learn about writing, publishing, promoting and profiting with nonfiction books. NFAA hosts twice-yearly Nonfiction Writers Conference events conducted entirely online, a year-round Nonfiction Book Awards program, and more. With a mission to help authors make a difference in the world, NFAA is the leading resource for nonfiction writers who want to learn how to navigate the publishing industry and sell more books.
The Writers' Hour
Struggling to find the time or motivation to write? Join London Writers' Salon for their FREE daily Writers' Hour writing sessions, held four times each Monday-Friday.
Educational Resources
Electric Speed
Electric Speed is a free email newsletter with all-original content by Jane Friedman, focusing on digital tools and helpful resources for writers. It arrives every other Saturday morning. Every once in a while, she sends extra updates about new educational offerings.
Keith Wheeler Books
From children's books and YA Novels to no content and low content books and everything in between, Keith Wheeler Books is a YouTube Channel geared at helping remove the mystery and confusion from self-publishing books on Amazon and beyond. Whether you're looking for writing tips, reviews on the latest self-publishing software or just motivational tips to keep you on track with publishing your next book, Keith Wheeler will keep you informed and entertained.
Self-Publishing with Dale
Self-Publishing with Dale is a YouTube channel devoted to showing authors how to write and publish books that sell. Voted by Feedspot among the Top 50 YouTube channels devoted to self-publishing, host Dale L. Roberts has cemented his position as the go-to authority in the indie author community.
Online Bookstore for Independent Authors
