Author Services

No matter what service you require, from individual elements of your book publishing to the whole package – Excalibur Press & Publishing can help.

Don’t worry if you can’t see the service you’re looking for below as we’re always adding to this list, just click the button below to contact us for more information:

SERVICES

1. Excalibur Light eBook

We will convert your manuscript into the correct format for ebook platforms.

By taking this package we will ensure that your book is ready for upload, has a unique cover and fits all of your chosen platforms requirements.

Excalibur Light is ideal for the author who has specific target markets for sale and wants to maintain autonomy on distribution, sales reports, and sales promotions.

This option creates a sellable online product meeting the standards of whatever sales platforms you wish to use.

This package is £100 and includes:

  • Text formatting from original manuscript and layout resets
  • Digital conversion
  • Cover design
  • Proof and sign-off of your formatted book, layouts and cover designs for amendments within 14 days of signed contract
  • Furnish you with an upload ready file within 7 days of approval / amendments

2. Excalibur Light Plus eBook Distribution

This option handles all your ebook requirements and allows the author to simply worry only about their writing. Excalibur will take over sales and sales reporting.

This package is £150 and includes all of option 1 plus:

  • The Excalibur imprint
  • Your book on sale globally within 14 days of approval / amendments
  • Your book sold on our webpage
  • Your ebook sold across global distributors including Amazon and Barnes and Noble, IBOOKS, KOBO, NOOK
  • A twice annual sales report and monthly sales payments

3. Excalibur Paperback Basic

This option allows you to see your manuscript turned into a professional quality book.

This package is £250 and includes:

  • A professional format
  • ISBN number
  • A Nielsen’s registration
  • The creation a professional sellable product
  • Cover design, back, front and dust-jacket
  • The provision of our logo/imprint to eliminate the ‘self publishing’ stigma
  • A proof of your formatted book, layouts and cover designs with the option of amendments (within 28 days of receipt)
  • The Inclusion of any amendments you want or wish to add.
  • Required copies of your finished book will be sent to you within 30 days of order (price of copies excluded)
  • The option to order copies for family, friends and colleagues to sell in your own manner.

4. Excalibur Paperback Basic Plus. Distribution & Representation and ebook

All of option 2 and 3 with extra selling and PR, this package takes away the pressure of promoting your book and navigating the world of press, publishing and PR alone.

This package is £500 and includes:

  • Distribution of your book worldwide via Amazon in both ebook and paperback formats
  • Distribute your book via our web page on a print on demand basis
  • Representation of your book to distributors throughout the UK.
  • Promote your work via our PR Company Excalibur Press
  • Three months access to our bespoke publisher search (normally £50 per month) to find you lists of publishers who are accepting manuscripts in your genre.
  • Submit on your agreement your manuscript and biography to publishers on your behalf.
  • A twice yearly sales report and sales payments

5. Excalibur Full Package

Priced at £700 this is one of our most popular full package options.

This option will help to give your work the exposure it deserves. It includes all of our services and allows authors to submit their manuscript for digital sales (ebooks), paper sales and most importantly to avail of our press, PR and publisher search services.

This package is ideal for those who want to take their book further than localised sales through friends and family networks and for those who want to give it the best chance possible.

ADDITIONAL AUTHOR SERVICES

This is just a snapshot of the other services we can provide.  Don’t hesitate to get in touch and one of our experts will advise you.

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1. Formatting

Price £60

Struggling with formatting your novel? We will prepare your book from your original manuscript formatting for print and ebook to a professional standard. Ensuring chapter headings, fonts, layouts and page breaks are consistent and your novel is laid out with book shop quality.

2. Cover design

Price £50

Need a quality design on all ebooks, paper copies and marketing and publicity?Provide us with your idea and we will have your book front and back cover designed by our team of professional designers. The copyright will be yours. Look at our website for some examples of our cover design to date.

3. Author biography

Price £30

Every book needs an author biography. Sometimes the hardest thing to write is about yourself.

If you are struggling as to what to say, what to include and what is expected, let us help.

We will write your author bio, from information you provide in our Q&A, that will be suitable to use within your publication, for your website, social media sites or for sending to press and PR people.

4. Press release writing

Price £80

All authors know that their book must get exposure. If you are trying to do so through the press then you will need a press release.

Our journalist of 20 years and publicist of 10 will write your press release to a standard expected by today’s modern print and digital press.

5. Dust jacket description writing and/or editing

Price £40

Sometimes it’s hard to step away from your own book, to work out what the key messages are that are needed in your dust jacket.

Knowing what you want to say in your dust jacket and being able to condense it are two very different things.

Let our team help you draft the perfect description, which you can use not only for your dust jacket but also in PR and marketing information as well as sale listings and social media.

5. Agent and Publisher search

Price £30 (per month)

You have written your book but are unsure about next steps. Perhaps before you take the avenue of vanity publishing you would like to contact some publishers and agents.

Navigating the waters of the publishing world can be daunting and it can be difficult to avoid the sharks. We can search suitable publishers and agents ensuring you get the best chance of publishing success.

OTHER SERVICES AVAILABLE

Prices available on request

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Ghost Writing

Do you have the idea and/or the story but lack time or the ability to put it into words. Let our team of experienced writers and authors bring your dream to life and finally see your name on the front cover of your book.

Co-Writing

Have you started a project but have hit that all-too-common brick wall? Why not team up with one of our authors or writers to help develop, progress and complete your book. At the end of the day having a co-credit on your book is better than having no book at all.

Research

Do you need specific information about a certain topic or issue for use in your book? Let our team of researchers help you find exactly what you’re looking for – from historical reference information and current statistics to cultural appropriation/referencing and more.

Social Media Support

We will help you form a professional and aesthetically pleasing social media presence, we will get you all set up and ready to go and our social media expert will even get you started off with your first few posts.

BONUS: Anyone who takes this package will receive our Free Social Media Cheat Sheet.

Online profile

We will help you develop your online presence by registering you as an author on numerous digital book-selling and literary platforms.

Transcribing

Does your publication contain interviews? More often than not transcribing the interview can force you to lose interest in the subject.

Eliminate this by using one of our professional transcribers who will deliver you, your entire interview word-for-word complete with time reference stamps.

Interviews

Does your book require expert commentary or personal experience stories, case studies or testimonials?

Why not let one of our experienced interviewers or journalists complete the interview, transcribe and present you with the full un-edited interview, allowing you to drive the content of your book?

Our writers can also write, edit and / or work with you to shape these into the right content for your book should you require.