Publishing books with simonthescribe is easy
ublishing a book is a lot easier than it used to be. It can be heartbreaking to approach traditional publishers with your book to have it rejected over and over again. Believe me - I know that one first hand! Many publishers work through publishing agents who don't seem to want to know you unless you are already earning considerable amounts through your writing.
But self-publishing is changing the industry - these days anyone who can handle the technology can publish their own book - in print or in digital output. If you have a book you want published - but can't find your way through the technology - I am here to assist you to self-publish your book.
The process for publishing your book here at simonthescribe is:
- we agree on a rough estimate for your project based on your description
- you send me your proof-read .doc files and any illustrations for the book
- you send me your ideas for a cover
- I give you a full written estimate
- if you accept this you pay a deposit of 50% of estimate
- I send you digital drafts of the layout and cover image drafts
- when you like these (signed-off copy) I publish the book for you and send you a print proof of the book
- you make any corrections, if needed, return the copy and I republish the book for you to order online
- when you are happy you complete the payment
Easy peasy and my prices start at £300 for a basic book layout and cover design and first print proof!
Contact me now using the contact form in the right hand column under my photo.
Below are some examples of covers, layouts and books made at simonthescribe:
FABULOUS FULL-COLOUR BOOK COVERS DESIGNED JUST FOR YOU
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Women on Top. Full wraparound cover including ISBN and Kimtag. The artwork was originated from modelled photographs and silhouetted with Photoshop. Cover design charge: £250 |
The Secret Land of Kerngellan. Wraparound cover with artwork from aplus1 digital photo stock. Incorporationg Photoshop colour transitions and flare effects. Cover design charge: £220 |
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Grandad's Garden. Separate images from aplus1 photo stock on cover and reverse. Integrated text in edge-faded boxes. ISBN box and publisher info. Cover design charge: £190 |
Secrets of the Geen Kitchen. Separate images from stock on colour background on cover and reverse. Picture insets from book on back cover. Cover design charge: £210 |
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Ways of Confucius and of Christ. Wraparound 1 piece cover with client images images set into background colour and elements integrated. Cover design charge: £170 |
The Fourfold Vision. Image photographically created and modified in Photoshop. Set on unifying background colour and repeated back and front. Cover design charge: £150 |
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Treasures of the Heart. Image supplied by client and modified in Photoshop. Background colour derived from image and repeated with additions on back cover. Cover design charge: £130 |
Secrets of the Valley. Client provided artist watercolour on cover. Back cover text reversed out onto background colour from image. Cover design charge: £130 |
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Just Call Me Alan: Simple template based cover with 2 client provided images and blurb and ISBN inset. Cover design charge: £90 |
The Sex Life of a Comedian. Wraparound background colour with title fonts, image, callouts, blurb and ISBN inset. Cover design charge: £100 |
ORIGINAL AND UNIQUE PAGE LAYOUTS DESIGNED FOR THE CONTENT
EXAMPLE BOOKS WRITTEN, DESIGNED AND LAID OUT BY SIMONTHESCRIBE BELOW
Mastering Desktop Publishing by Simon Mitchell »
f you publish using a computer, in print or digital media, then this book is an essential resource. Both the quality and effectiveness of your work will improve through focus on design.
This absorbing book provides the processes, skills and strategies needed for successful desktop publishing (DTP), backed up with 200 illustrations. It will help you journey beyond page wizards and design for specific audiences.
This book reveals tricks, secrets and magic ingredients for design, whatever DTP system you use. It is highly recommended for 'inhouse' DTP. Published with Palgrave / Macmillan.
Secrets of the Green Kitchen by Simon Mitchell »
ne way to a greener lifestyle starts at home in the kitchen! Here's holistic thinker and wild food enthusiast Simon Mitchell with a radical new book that celebrates the awesome power of natural foods for managing health.
Here is the WHY and the HOW of reaching for a holistic lifestyle from the heart of your home. Discover for yourself the power of Mother Nature's Gifts, a real integrated medicine working for you from your very own kitchen. Hiding in your meals, is a whole FOOD MEDICINE for health, for healing and for fun!
The Lily, Episode 1 - Secrets of the Valley by Simon Mitchell »
n ancient matrix of energy lies hidden in the earth, its existence and purpose all but forgotten. One strand, named The Dragon Line passes through Cornwall, a land steeped in history and mystery since the dawn of time. Here the line passes through the valley of the River Fowey.
A lone ghost, abandoned in the valley of his birth, tells how the line of energy has been usurped, unbalancing the whole planetary energy matrix. In The Lily, the first novel of an extraordinary trilogy, we share his lives as he tells his tale of 2000 years in the Fowey valley. He sets a crucial task, to mend the Dragon Line and restore the balance of power, before time itself runs out.
The Fourfold Vision by F. Sherwood Taylor M.A., Ph.D.»
riginally published in 1945, The Fourfold Vision makes a welcome return. Here is the full integration of science and issues of faith from the pen of a master.
F. Sherwood Taylor has gained great respect for his work on The Alchemist and many other books where scientific investigation meets with matters of belief. He was the first editor of ‘Ambix’ magazine and was Director at the Museum of History of Science in Oxford.
Join him here on a classic journey from the centre of Science and Philosophy to the heart of Art and Nature.
Grandad's Garden by F. Hadfield Farthing
riginally published in 1911, Grandad’s Garden is a no-nonsense guide to growing vegetables and fruit at home on a limited budget. Written 100 years ago it contains ancient wisdom for gardeners at home.
The practical information contained in this book is highly relevant today as more and more people return to their gardens to supplement food supplies, find pleasure in nature and discover the simple but profound rewards of ‘growing at home’.
Ways of Confucius and of Christ by Dom Pierre Celestin
diplomat abandons his career to enter a religious community. When this happens it is
commonly felt that he has made a break with his past. When the diplomat
is a Chinese Foreign Minister and the community a Benedictine abbey in
Belgium, the contrast is all the more startling.
But here Dom Lou sets out to show that his life preserves an essential unity, just as the natural order precedes and leads up to the supernatural, so he has been led from the ways of Confucius to those of Christianity and finally to the Catholic Church and monastic life.
Just Call Me Alan by Alan Powney »
or many years we tried to encourage Dad to put his memories on tape for posterity and eventually with a Christmas present of a Dictaphone these memories came about.
Please read on for the memories of a man who experienced life as a choirboy in Coventry Cathedral, an army officer in the Second World War, an active participant in D-day, an adjutant in a prisoner of war camp for the Germans, a programmer for one of the first computers used commercially and a romantic man in a long and happy marriage. In loving memory.
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