Publishing your book is easier than you think!
If you have a story to tell or expertise to share, writing and publishing your own book is an achievement that can bring many rewards:
• Bolster your professional reputation
• Establish yourself as an expert your field
• Increase your authority for public speaking and consulting
• Share your creative vision
• Leave a lasting legacy as a published author
Today, technology has enabled many powerful tools and services that allow authors to skip the arduous and time-consuming process of gaining acceptance from traditional publishing houses by publishing their own book with the help of alternative publishers such as Morningstar Press.
With knowlegeable guidance every step of the way, Morningstar Press offers a comprehensive and flexible array of services for authors to tap as needed to take their book project from the idea phase to a virtual book launch.
Key steps in writing and publishing a book
Writing help — You’ve written an outline and maybe a first chapter, but now would like some help from editor in structuring your book, or possibly a ghost writer or writing coach.
OUR SERVICES
Coaching
Ghost Writing
Editing — Our experienced book editors can give you critical feedback and advice to ensure your book has a clear and logical flow and is engaging for your readers.
Book Editing
Copy editing — Once your manuscript is ready, out team of copy editors will identify and errors in grammar, spelling, punctuations and sentence structure.
Copy Editing
Graphic design — Our in-house creative agency, Pixel-Pencil Studio, can help create the “look and feel” for your book with font selections, a color palette and page layouts and effective use of illustrations and graphics.
Creative Design
Cover design and illustration — A key to a successful book is having a unique and attention-getting cover that appeals to you target reader. Our creative team can bring that goal to life with beautiful and professional illustrations and graphics that sets your book apart.
Book Cover Design
Custum Illustrations
Book layout and file creation — The right interior layout makes effective use of fonts, colors, shapes, whitespace, illustrations, tables, charts, references, index, table of contents and other elements to enhance the reading experience and lend authority to your book. Our book design specialists can help you with a complete layout of the book, making it ready for printing.
Interior Layout
Getting your book in print — The many “print on demand” (POD) book sellers like Amazon or Barnes & Nobel, give authors powerful new ways to bring their books to readers, but the process can be confusing and tedious. Our production team can explain the many options for getting your book in print and help guide you as you select the right path for bringing your book to market. Once decided, we can help you every step of the way with ISBNs, copyrights, royalties, pricing, print-file uploading and more.
Prining and Publishing
Developing a marketing plan — To increase sales of your book, you need an effective marketing plan that uses advertising, social media and public relations to get information about your book in front of readers. Our book marketing team will work with you to develop an effective marketing plan for your book and help with execution.
Marketing
Distributing your book — By working through Ingram Spark, Ingram, the worlds biggest book distributor your book available to book stores, libraries as well as platforms like Amazon and Barnes & Noble — making your book available to readers in a variety of ways.
Distribution
A supportive approach that puts authors first, and keeps you in control at every stage
We’d love to chat with you about your book project and goals as well as the options services for publishing you book available to you through Morningstar Press.
We will set up a free, no obligation online consultation at your convenience to answer any questions you have about the publishing process and explain the type and cost of services you may need to accomplish your goal of becoming a published author.