Publishing Categories   What We Publishing and the different kinds of publishing we do. What you get when you publish a book with our firm.  - Check out the three publishers we have -

Our Publishing Categories

     Traditional Publishing

       This is also known as trade publishing. Its the type of publishing where the manuscript submitted to the publisher is reviewed and then selected for publishing. The publisher will design the cover, edit the book, copyright it, market it, and distribute the book through book stores and book dealers. The publisher will also assign or find an editor and PR specialist to represent the author and help in the publishing process. Trade publishers distribute titles through bookstores, libraries, and wholesalers. Trade books are published for these kinds of audiences,  children, teenagers, and adults. They can be works of fiction or nonfiction, hardcover or paperback. Generally, trade publishing is the most high profile type of publishing as it is the most commercially focused.

    Partners Publishing   

     This type of publishing is almost the exact same as traditional publishing with one exception. After a manuscript is submitted and reviewed it is not always selected for publishing, but if the manuscript submitted is not selected the author can join the Partners Program.  This type publishing is with our press Starving Writers Publishing and Imagine House Publishing. To have your books published through this program you will pay the setup costs for your book to be published through our firm. You still receive the same full services as traditional publishing, but you have to set your title up with us and there are setup costs. Now after this is done and once you have sold 600 copies of your book you will receive a Publishing Rebate - we give the setup cost back based on the success of your book (purchasing the book with your author discount counts as a sale).  You are rewarded for being our partner in the success of your book. Best of all you will not have to self publish your book. This gives you the chance to publish your book without having to be rejected unless your book does not meet our criteria  for publishing and to receive full publishing services.  For authors not selected for traditional publishing this is the best option.

      Basic Publishing

      This type of publishing is our basic format of publishing. If you do not get selected for traditional publishing and do not want to do the partners program then we have a simple option for you.  You can take advantage of our printing services and our full publishing services such as editing, marketing, design, but you will have limited distribution.  Limited Distribution means that only Truesource Publishing and our bookstores associated with the firm will be distributing the book and once you have a sold at least 300 copies of the book then we will move your book into full distribution. Full distribution means that the book will be available through all the book dealers and major retail book outlets.

4.  Publication - This type of publishing is where you can publish your work in a periodical such as a journal,  print magazine or online magazine, newsletter, or anthology. All an author has to do is allow the use of their work for a periodical by giving us the publishing rights to the work. For authors that are not ready to publish a book they can use this service to publish their work in literary publications.  This is a great option to get your written work out into the world and start your writing career.

One copy of your book is printed for you,  you can also purchase copies of the book at a wholesale discount to sell on your own. Your discount is 40% off the retail price of the book.

We will assign you an editor that works on the book and also works as a PR specialist when it comes to your published book. You can also find one on your own if you feel more comfortable, but your editor is the person that helps you sell and market you book with our help and negotiate contracts on your behalf when in regards to your published book.

Our professionals edit your book for you before printing (we still expect the writer to edit the book at least a little before submitting the book to be published or we will have to do a complete re-write and charge a re-write fee). Please reference our section on editing with Truesource Publishing.

A Full-Color High Resolution Cover design (front, back, and Spine), the logo is yours to keep if you do not want to be published by Truesource Publishing anymore; if you want to design a picture yourself for the cover of your book that is okay and we encourage that. If you do that you need to make sure that the picture is in JPEG format on a computer and you can send it to us by email.

We will market and advertise the book, through our marketing services for stores and book dealers. The print companies we use and our book dealer do a lot of marketing to increase the sales of the book that are listed with them and part of the marketing we do is through them  (please note: marketing you book will not just be up to us, we expect our published authors to help try and sell their own book through different resources). There is only so much that we can do, but as the writer you can help sell you book to people through "word of mouth" or to advertising to other online resources. We believe in working together in selling your book since we publish in small runs and do our printing in print on demand.

We will sell it and distribute your book through all kinds of bookstores, from independent bookstore and retail chains (Barnes and Nobles, Books a Million , Borders, Amazon.com.).  We will also sell it through any Online Stores or book dealers that is associated with Truesource Publishing

We will make a digital hard copy and proof of your book for any print company and publisher to use, and this is yours to keep. There is your set-up and proof fee which is required by any print company. This digital hard copy and proof of your book is cataloged at the print companies we use so if you would like to order books they will always have it.  However the ISBN number assigned to the book cannot be used by any other company but ours.

We publish e-books. Your book will also be published as an e-book so it can be read on a digital reader such as the kindle reader.  We do make books available for the Kindle Reader.

We have a 10 point plan to market your book. Marketing includes advertising, setting up appearances such as book signings, and getting you interviews. The author is responsible for helping us do this as well. Author do have to market themselves and their book(s).

You book will be copyrighted through Truesource Publishing with the U.S. copyright office (the fee for doing this is included in your publishing fee) and listed in the Library of Congress. However, we do encourage authors to do the copyrighting themselves to ensure the ownership of the work is by the author and no one else.

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