Solutions and Services for Authors:
As an author, you need the basic production tasks of producing your book as well as a website and social media updates to sell it. You have labored for years in order to complete your work and ensure that it is the best possible. Indeed this is a major accomplishment and one of which you should be proud. It is now you face the complex and challenging task of presenting your work to the world. It is at this stage that you have choices to make, and these choices will determine the future of your work. Whether you asked yourself these questions before not, they now must be addressed. How do you transform your manuscript into files appropriate for printers to produce copies? How do I format the running headers, page numbers, titles, proper margins, etc.? How do I take my art, image, or concept and create a cover for my book? What size should the book be in relation to page numbers? What is the cover format and how do I produce it properly for the printer? What belongs in the front matter? Do I need to format both paperback and hardback copies, and how do I do this? How do I make an epub file? What metadata do I need to address, and where do I need to place it? Do I need an ISBN and Library of Congress number and if so, where do I obtain them? How do I obtain a properly formatted UPC for my cover? Do I need a literary agent and if so is my letter to them a good one? Should I write a publisher and is my letter appropriately professional? A traditional publisher route will provide assistance to many of these, while a self-publishing route will require the author to deal with each question and more.
Faced with these questions and the myriad of tasks required to publish your work an author has several options. It is possible for an author to take on all of the responsibilities themselves – the complete self-publishing route. Conversely, all of these tasks can be handled in large part for an author if they have the prospect of securing a traditional publisher. Between these two alternatives lies much middle ground for the author. Even with the decision to self-publish an author can receive professional services for many aspects of bringing their work into print. Lafayette & Greene was founded on providing quality, professional services that include:
- Submission materials editing
- Typesetting
- Epub creation
- Registration and metadata
- Image editing
- Cover design
- Marketing solutions
- Website and social media support