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We are pleased to offer our professional services to assist authors and publishers. If you require assistance in relation to any of the areas below, please contact us and we will do our best to assist you. Book Production Services Writing ~ advice and help with the writing process Editing ~ detailed or copy editing Design ~ page design and layouts, cover design and artwork Printing ~ handling contracts from quotation to quality control Publicity ~ mail order, public press, reviews, trade and professional journals Distribution ~ shops, academics, libraries and suppliers, and sub-distributors Target Readership ~ writing for the readers Plain English ~ straightforward expression for well-structured ideas Thesis Conversion ~ helping to re-write Masters and Doctoral theses
The Methods
Commercial Publishing ~ for books with broad appeal to a wide readership Sponsored Publishing ~ for books with a highly specific readership Desktop Publishing ~ typesetting & design direct from word processing disks Publishing Agency ~ finding the right publisher for special books
The Editorial Role
Reading ~ close analysis of the typescript's arguments, facts, tone, style Reporting ~ advising authors on ways to revise their work Readership ~ identifying the qualities of the readers of particular texts Market ~ describing the writing product that will find a reading market Re-Structuring ~ re-organising the arguments and the facts they draw on Telling the Story ~ directing authors on how to achieve a continuing narrative line Nuts and Bolts ~ revising grammar, syntax, spelling and punctuation Proof-reading ~ final quality control over the text as a whole
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