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AUTHOR PROGRAMS

We want to publish your books, new and used. Simple as that.

Jump to: Backlist/Out-of-Print Books Program

An important part of what we do at Peak Writing, where our motto is “Using the Internet to empower writers,” is to publish manuscripts as e-books and print books, then help those authors learn to market and sell their books via the Internet and traditional channels. We work with new authors and established ones.

New Author Program

1. We buy it.
We are interested in acquiring previously unpublished book manuscripts in any genre except poetry. We pay you an advance against future royalties for the right to edit and publish your book, if it is accepted by our editorial board.

2. We edit it.
We will edit and prepare your work for publication as an e-book and as a print book, usually a trade paperback.

3. We help sell it.
The joy of seeing your first book in print quickly diminishes when you realize that traditional publishers will do little more than a first printing, usually around 10,000 copies, and stick them in their traditional distribution channels. Less than 10% of all books published earn back their advance. Why?

Rarely will there be a serious promotional campaign for the book, which quickly finds itself on the backlist, copies sitting in a warehouse that the publisher owns and you must pay for if you want to market them yourself.

Whoa! What’s wrong with that picture?

Besides the strong whiff of exploitation, there’s the little matter of you, the author, having lost control of your work for the next five to 10 years.

At Peak Writing, we are not only your publishing partner, we are your marketing partner.

Our goal is to set you up as the marketer of your own works on the web. Here’s what we do:

We create a web site for you, including tools for an email newsletter to your readers.

We provide you a software system that allows you to add content, update your web site, create and send your newsletter simply by typing on a keyboard.

We give you our “Secrets of E-Marketing” manual that tells you how to keep your book alive on the Internet and in bookstores—selling strong—for as long as you wish.

We work with you to implement those marketing techniques.

We provide you a complete e-commerce service: shopping cart, credit card verification, direct payments to your bank account, and more.

In other words:

You do the writing; together we’ll do the selling.

How much does it cost?
Nothing. You don’t need any upfront money. We make ours as a percentage of the book’s sales. The more you sell, the more both of us make. Keeps us both motivated and happy.

Contact
david@peakwriting.com
tel: (912) 398-2987

Backlist/Out-of-Print Books Program

For several hundred years, big offline publishers have done a good job of pushing lots of books through their distribution system and restocking the bookstore shelves every few months with new stuff.

Because a book’s life is dependent mainly on the marketing muscle behind it, and because usually only the potential bestsellers get the marketing sources, the result is predictable: Books come and go quickly. Readers and authors are trapped in a publishing model that promotes built-in obsolescence and results in amazing waste on a number of levels: intellectual, personal, environmental and economic.

New books will always outsell out-of-print books, no doubt. But we believe there is a viable business model in acquiring rights to backlisted and OOP books, marketing directly to their core audience via the Internet and using small print runs to create and fulfill the demand.

If you have the rights to any of your out-of-print books, we want to talk to you about reprinting and marketing them.

How much does it cost?
Same answer as above: Nothing. You don’t need any upfront money. We make ours as a percentage of the book’s sales. The more you sell, the more both of us make. Keeps us both motivated and happy.

Contact
david@peakwriting.com
tel: (912) 398-2987