Traditional Publishing

       This is also known as trade publishing. It 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 it, copyright it, market it, and distribute the book through book stores and book dealers. The publisher will also assign or find a agent or business manager to represent the author and help in the publishing process. Trade publishers sell their books through the channels that have been specifically established for books—bookstores, libraries, and wholesalers. Trade books are published for 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 presses Starving Writers Publishing and Imagine Print and Publish. To have your books published through this program you will pay the setup costs for your book to be published through Starving Writers Publishing. 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 you money back based on the success of your book (purchasing the book with your author discount counts as a sale). The money you receive in the rebate is the fee you paid to set your title up through Starving Writers Publishing. 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 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, magazine, 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.

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 - 40% off the retail price of the book.

We will assign you or help up find a Client Service Agent to be your PR specialist and represent you when it comes to your published book. You can also find one on your own if you feel more comfortable, but your Client Service Agent 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 Starving Writers 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 it, 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 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" advertising to other online resources. We believe working together in selling your book since we publish in small runs and print on demand. All marketing through this publishing company is done through Truesource Marketing, another division of Truesource Media.

We will sell it and distribute your book through any store and book dealer that is in the world (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.

We publish e-books. Your book will also be published as an e-book so it can be read on a digital reader.

We have a 10 point plan to market your book. Marketing includes advertising, setting up appearances, and getting you interviews.

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.

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