If you’re like most authors, you want someone who will help your work reach its highest potential without changing your style or injecting their own. You want to publish a book you can be proud of and one that will find success in the marketplace, whether you’re seeking a book deal with a publisher or planning to self-publish.
Our editorial and publishing packages are carefully constructed to ensure you achieve the results you want without wasting your time, energy, or resources. Contact us today for a free, no-obligation consultation so we can discuss what would work best for you. In the meantime, here’s a rundown of the many services we offer:
- developmental editing
- manuscript editing
- copy editing
- proofreading
- manuscript evaluations
- query letter editing
- query letter writing
- book proposal evaluations
- book proposal editing
- cover copy writing
- cover copy editing
- cover design
- print book design and layout
- ebook formatting
- publishing assistance
- author platform strategies
- book marketing strategies
- group programs
- private mastermind sessions
- webinars
We’d love to speak with you about your book or project —
sign up now for a free, no-obligation phone consultation with our chief expert editor, Ally. We look forward to hearing from you!
Services for Authors
Book Editing Packages
We believe that clear, effective writing is all-important—it’s the difference between having ideas and sharing them with others. Grammar is definitely an element here (and our copyeditors can help with that), but if you’re hoping to build a career as a writer, it’s gonna take more than correcting your errors. You need in-depth guidance from someone who understands the mechanics of what makes a book readable, engaging, and memorable and also understands the business of publishing. Are you:
- feeling unsure if your work is the very best it can be, and if it’s ready for publication?
- looking for a way to save yourself time and aggravation in your revision process?
- tired of sending submissions out to agents and publishers and hearing nothing but crickets, or worse, getting those disheartening form rejection letters?
- frustrated that your self-published book is just sitting out there without enough reviews or sales?
We get it. Not only are we experienced book editors, we’re book writers too. We understand what you want and what you need, because we’ve been there. Our experience comes from our own projects but also from the hundreds of writers who have used our programs and services to become successfully published authors (and a few bestsellers too!). From book development to building your author platform to marketing your book, we’re here to help.
Check out some of our packages below. During your free phone consultation, we’ll figure out what will best help you accomplish your goals. In addition to these packages, we also offer numerous add-ons that will allow us to customize a plan for complete world domination (or, you know, successfully publishing and selling your book…whatever’s more important to you).
Manuscripts
Our packages are carefully designed to guide you from where you are now to achieving your publishing goals. Below are three of our most popular packages for manuscripts, but once we speak we may work with you to create a customized combination of services based on the unique needs of your project. Our most popular packages are:
Package A: Manuscript Assessment
Best for you if:
- you have a very limited budget but still want to publish a great book AND
- you’ve already received extensive developmental feedback
Includes:
- Manuscript Evaluation
- Developmental Edit Add On (first 13,000 words)
- Query Letter Review OR Cover Copy Writing
Self-publishers typically add on a Copyediting service and/or Proofreading service to this package.
Package B: Manuscript Tune-Up
Best for you if:
- you’ve never received developmental feedback and have a limited budget OR
- you’ve received some developmental feedback but know you can still improve
Includes:
- Manuscript Consultation
- Manuscript Evaluation
- Query Letter Review OR Cover Copy Writing
Self-publishers typically add on a Copyediting service and/or Proofreading service to this package.
Package C: Manuscript Makeover
Best for you if:
- you’ve never received developmental feedback OR
- you’ve received some developmental feedback but know you can still improve AND
- you’re committed to achieving your publishing goals and are willing to invest in your success
Includes:
- Developmental Edit
- Manuscript Evaluation
- Query Letter Review OR Cover Copy Writing
Self-publishers typically add on a Copyediting service and/or Proofreading service to this package.
Not sure what’s best for you? Let us help you create a package that will lead you toward your publishing goals. Contact us today to schedule a free, no-obligation consultation.
Book Proposals
Did you know that the most important piece of writing for a nonfiction author seeking a book deal isn’t the manuscript—it’s the book proposal! Most agents and publishers want to see a 25-50 page proposal that highlights certain aspects of your book idea before they ask to see the manuscript. In fact, most nonfiction book deals are made based on the proposals alone—before a manuscript has even been written!
Don’t waste time working on a manuscript before you’ve hammered out things like your table of contents, your marketing overview, and a plan for leveraging your platform. Our editors will edit and shape your nonfiction book proposal so it has the best chance of grabbing an agent or editor’s coveted attention.
Package D: Proposal Assessment
Best for you if:
- you’ve never received developmental feedback and have a limited budget OR
- you’ve received some feedback but know you can still improve
Includes:
- Book Proposal Evaluation
- Query Letter Review
Package E: Proposal Makeover
Best for you if:
- you’ve never received developmental feedback OR
- you’ve received some developmental feedback but know you can still improve AND
- you’re committed to achieving your publishing goals and are willing to invest in your success
Includes:
- Developmental Edit for Book Proposal
- Book Proposal Evaluation
- Query Letter Review
Not sure what’s best for you? Let us help you create a package that will lead you toward your publishing goals. Contact us today to schedule a free, no-obligation consultation.
We’d love to speak with you about your book or project —
sign up now for a free, no-obligation phone consultation with our chief expert editor, Ally. We look forward to hearing from you!
Book Publishing Packages
It can be easy to upload your manuscript file to Amazon and make a book available for sale. But it isn’t easy to actually sell it. That just isn’t what successful self-publishing looks like.
Are you:
- serious about building an author career and selling quality books?
- looking for a way to save time and aggravation in your publishing process?
- tired of trying to figure out the best way to get from A to B to C?
- frustrated that your last self-published book is just sitting out there without enough reviews or sales?
If quality is important to you and your time is even more precious, we can help. Our publishing packages for hardcover, print, and ebook editions (and any combination thereof) are designed to be all-inclusive, taking your draft from manuscript to finished book available for sale. And if you find you need a few more things to complement the service, such as proofreading, we can help with that, too. See below for our most popular combination of these packages as an example.
Package 1: Paperback and Ebook with Cover Design
Best for you if:
- you’re ready to publish your book to a wide audience
- you want your publishing process to be nearly effortless
- you want to ensure yours is a professional-looking book
Includes:
- Book Cover Design
- Paperback Interior Layout and Design
- Ebook with best tech reflowable ePub 3.0 conversion (compatible on all mainstream devices)
- Copyright Registration (1 Author)
- ISBN Assignment – Print Book
- ISBN Assignment – eBook
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) Assignment
- Bar Code
- Set-up in Distribution System (Amazon, iBookstore, Nook, Kobo)
- Online Bookstore listings set up with custom keywords
- Bookseller’s Return Program
- Amazon “Look Inside”
- BN NOOK Book “Read Sample”
Package G: Prepping for Publication
Best for you if:
- your manuscript has already been developmentally edited
- you’re signing up for one of our complete publishing packages
- you want to ensure yours is a professional-looking book
Includes:
- Copyediting
- Proofreading
- Cover Copy Writing
Not sure what’s best for you? Let us help you create a package that will lead you toward your publishing goals. Contact us today to schedule a free, no-obligation consultation.
We’d love to speak with you about your book or project —
sign up now for a free, no-obligation phone consultation with our chief expert editor, Ally. We look forward to hearing from you!
Book Design Packages
Dedicated DIYer? One of the great things about self-publishing is that, with a little time and effort, you can figure out how to do just about everything yourself. But with some things, doing it yourself can seriously hurt your chances of success.
The fact is we all judge books by their covers (and what their pages look like on paper or on our e-reader screens, too), so it’s crucial for your book’s success that you get this part right.
We offer budget-friendly design packages that can accommodate the templates of any printer or publishing service you choose. Cover design, print book design and layout, and ebook formatting are available for hardcovers, paperbacks, and ebooks (in both EPUB and MOBI formats). If your draft needs a good copyedit before design or you want help with your cover copy, we can add those and other services to customize your package.
Package F: Book Production
Best for you if:
- your manuscript has been professionally copyedited
- you know how to self-publish well and have the time to DIY
- you want to ensure yours is a professional-looking book
Includes:
- Interior Book Design and Layout
- Proofreading
- Ebook Formatting and Conversion
Not sure what’s best for you? Let us help you create a package that will lead you toward your publishing goals. Contact us today to schedule a free, no-obligation consultation.
We’d love to speak with you about your book or project —
sign up now for a free, no-obligation phone consultation with our chief expert editor, Ally. We look forward to hearing from you!
Book Marketing Strategy
Once a book is out there, the work is far from over. Now you must transform yourself from a skilled craftsperson (the writer) into a savvy marketer (the publisher—and even if you partner with a publisher, you’re still expected to participate in promoting your books). There’s little more heartbreaking than having worked hard to write a wonderful story or share an important message and then have no one buy it. And getting those crucial online reviews can be like pulling teeth, even from your loved ones!
Here at TWA, we tap into the experience of hundreds of our clients, not to mention experience with our own published works, and a wealth of cutting-edge industry knowledge to help you build or expand your author platform and create a custom marketing strategy to sell more books, however you choose to get them out into the world.
Whether your book has not yet been published or your books are out there and not selling as well as you’d like, our founder Ally Machate has the expertise to guide you through the steps you need to get the results you want. Click here to find out more.
Services for Agents and Publishers
Professional Book Editing Services
Developmental Editing – Manuscripts and Book Proposals
The majority of your time is taken up with pursuing new projects and ushering acquired projects to market, which means lots of meetings, phone calls, research, and paperwork. You just don’t have time to do more than a couple rounds of development on a project, if you have time for any! What you need right now is a seasoned professional who:
- knows what it takes to create a great book
- can take your author and/or draft in hand and guide the process toward perfection
- will make you look good to your teammates and clients
- is pleasant to work with and will reduce your aggravation, not add to it
But you want more than just a skilled worker—you want a reliable partner who understands the publishing process inside and out and who is sensitive to your needs and your authors’. Someone with experience on both sides of the desk. Someone who can see the shining gems amidst the morass of material sitting on your desk, pluck them out, and make the book or proposal work.
One of the things that makes TWA editors unique is that we have solid industry experience, both as staff editors and also as writers, in addition to decades of collective experience as independent editors and consultants. We’re the perfect team to edit your author’s manuscript or book proposal and guide it toward its highest potential. And because we are a team, we can also offer fresh eyes for each production phase as we help see your book through copyediting and proofreading. Contact us today for a free phone consultation to discuss your author-client and your project needs.
With nearly five decades of collective experience editing, writing, and consulting, we serve a client base ranging from individual writers to small businesses to literary agencies to large publishing houses. Here are just a few companies our team of experts have had the opportunity to serve:
- Simon & Schuster
- Penguin Random House
- Kaplan Publishing
- Reader’s Digest Books
- Warner Books
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Pearson
- Bancroft Press
- Chronicle Books
- Rodale Inc./Prevention Books
- The Literary Group International
- John Wiley & Sons
- Sunrise Press
- The Knight Agency
Reading Group Guides
Ally has been writing and editing reading group guides, book jackets, book covers, and catalogs since she got her first job in publishing back in 1999, and she’s spent years training her team of writers. Are you trying to craft copy that will get your book from the shelf to the shopping cart? Are you targeting book clubs as a potential market? Let us create or edit the book collateral you need to achieve your goals. Let’s talk about your needs and how we can help.
We’d love to speak with you about your book or project —
sign up now for a free, no-obligation phone consultation with our chief expert editor, Ally. We look forward to hearing from you!
