Publishing & beyond
We believe in books. But we don't believe you should expend years of your life — or your children's inheritance — getting your book to market. Different books are intended for different readers, and need to be published in different ways. We'll help you find yours.
At The Book Consultancy, we take the time to understand your book, your ambitions and your readership before offering advice. There is no one-size-fits-all route to publication, and we pride ourselves on giving honest, practical, commercially grounded guidance.
Whatever you need, we're here to help you find it. Contact us now and start the ball rolling.
Publishing routes
It may be that your work is ideally suited to the traditional route — a literary agent and a mainstream publisher. We can help you assess whether this is the right path for your book, advise on which agents to approach, and help you prepare a compelling submission package.
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Independent publishing — sometimes called self-publishing — has matured enormously and is now a wholly legitimate and often preferable route for many books and many authors. We can guide you through every step of the process, from finding a designer and printer to choosing a distributor.
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For many books and many readers, e-book publishing is the best or only route. We can give you the tools and knowledge to make it work — from formatting and platform selection to pricing strategy and discoverability.
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After publication
Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no-one there to hear it? Can a published book make a splash if nobody knows it's there?
Our specialised book marketing services provide online and offline support, social media marketing and PR to make sure that the right people know where to find your book — and buy it. Together we can discover and implement the right marketing strategy for you.
Enquire about marketingHaunted by visions of a garage piled high with books? Panicked by the prospect of post-office queues from here to kingdom come? Fear no more.
Our extremely reasonable rates for warehousing, picking & packing, and distribution take all the pain away — and leave you free to promote your book, or even write the next one.
Enquire about distributionThat's exactly what we're here for. Contact us and we'll talk through your options with no obligation and no jargon.
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