Welcome to Sweet Beech Media! Thank you for coming to take a look at our publishing services. Owner Laura Andrews has over a decade of professional self-publishing experience and has worked with more than forty authors on their publishing journeys. Sweet Beech Media marks her transition to helping authors full time. Laura has assembled a reliable team to help in this endeavor. We believe in being forthright, honest, and transparent with our authors, our services, and our pricing.
Services:
Services:
Book Formatting starts at $450/first 50,000 words. $35 each additional 5,000 words. Three images, section breaks, title/half-title, copyright, author, also-by, thank you pages included. Choice of drop caps, first line styles, font combinations included. Three additional sessions of typo/minor corrections and uploads after initial publication included. Ebook only or ebook/print package. Additional images, custom section breaks or chapter heading flourishes quoted separately. Indesign available for custom print. Hit button below to pay a refundable deposit of $150 to hold next available spot on formatting calendar. A consultation will be scheduled over email. Or schedule free consult at bottom of the page.
Publishing Account Set-up(s) Setting up a new account is $315 for the first platform and $275 for each additional platform. Some accounts do require ID verification and all accounts require tax information for royalty payments. One book upload included. Uploads include book description edit, keyword research if needed, best platform choice practices, and print choices if publishing print books. Book Set-ups and uploads to existing accounts are $250 per book. Books must be ready to go for publication before purchasing this service. Hit the button below to pay a refundable deposit of $100 to hold the next available spot on the publishing account set-up calendar. A consultation will be scheduled over email. Or schedule a free consult.
Social Media Account Set-up or optimization of Facebook author page, Instagram author page, and/or Amazon Author Central is $120 per account. Hit the button below to pay a refundable deposit of $50 to hold the next available spot on the media account creation calendar. A consultation will be scheduled over email. Or schedule a free consult.
Turnkey Self-publishing done right! Authors retain full control over their publishing platforms, choices for cover design, ISBN numbers, and ordering of books at print cost. This service is customized and quoted depending on the services needed to produce a book ready to publish and includes publishing account set-up and/or of the completed book for publication as well as author training on the dashboards as needed. Average cost is $2600 for book that is already edited and ready for formatting, copyedit, cover, and publication. Hit the button below to schedule a free consultation and hold the next available spot on the publishing calendar.
Synopsis/Query Letter/Book Description Edits $85/each USD: All Fiction/Non-Fiction Involves a couple of emails back and forth to get an idea of your book and you need to provide one of the above for me to edit- I won't create from scratch :-) Includes Review changes and notes.
Author Lessons All Fiction/Non-Fiction $75/hour on Zoom For those interested in learning all the things:
Self-publishing: learn how to set up your social media author business pages, set up your KDP account, set up your Amazon Author Page, how to navigate your Amazon Dashboard, upload books, and order author copies, how to upload to other platforms. How to write a synopsis, how to write a back cover blurb, how to write a book description. Basics of marketing, book promotion, setting up Facebook ads, Amazon ads, trustworthy sources for more info. Useful software tools—email/email sequences, secure sharing of ARC/gift books, research of categories/keywords.
Traditional publishing: learn how to find, vet, and approach agents, how to write a query letter, about the process once you have landed an agent, what an agent can do for you, the process of traditional publishing.
Self-publishing: learn how to set up your social media author business pages, set up your KDP account, set up your Amazon Author Page, how to navigate your Amazon Dashboard, upload books, and order author copies, how to upload to other platforms. How to write a synopsis, how to write a back cover blurb, how to write a book description. Basics of marketing, book promotion, setting up Facebook ads, Amazon ads, trustworthy sources for more info. Useful software tools—email/email sequences, secure sharing of ARC/gift books, research of categories/keywords.
Traditional publishing: learn how to find, vet, and approach agents, how to write a query letter, about the process once you have landed an agent, what an agent can do for you, the process of traditional publishing.
Writer's Life Coaching $60/hour phone call, FaceTime/Zoom : All Fiction/Non-Fiction Need general writing help? A conversation on getting started, dealing with writers block, story generation, setting boundaries, time management, fitting in writing time, hashing out a story knot, taking the next step in your writing, fear in writing, etc?
Author/Editor Website Build starts at $500. Weebly/Square/Wix. Includes SEO.
Will also repair/re-do/optimize existing sites at Weebly/Square/Wix starting at $250.
Hit the button below to pay a refundable deposit of $100 to hold the next available spot on the website work calendar
Will also repair/re-do/optimize existing sites at Weebly/Square/Wix starting at $250.
Hit the button below to pay a refundable deposit of $100 to hold the next available spot on the website work calendar
