Paper Perfect Editing

Cover, Marketing, Promotion and Consulting to Launch Your Book Right and Start Making Money

Here at Paper Perfect, we edit a lot of books. We’ve helped authors improve their fiction, non-fiction, self-help, memoir, or literary manuscripts from a messy rough draft to a compelling and powerful, print ready final copy. And yet we know that having a beautiful, polished, well-written manuscript is not enough to be successful. Whether you’re looking for an agent or publisher, or self-publishing on your own, there is much more to launching a book than the text on the written page. Things like an attention-grabbing and evocative title, a query letter, a synopsis or overview, backcover copy, a stunning book cover, a well-formatted manuscript, a sales or landing page, an author bio, bullet-points of content, a press release – and that’s just for starters.

As professionals in the publishing industry, we routinely give advice about these components like where to look for book design or formatting services, how to approach a publisher or agent, as well as marketing and promotion tips like how to write a press release, get newspaper reviews and book coverage, write a sales letter or use social media for promotion. One of the authors we helped recently had put out a decent book, but couldn’t find an agent or publisher. After helping him clean up his proposal material, strengthen his title and subtitle, and rewrite his author bio (platform) and book synposis, he hooked an agent and finally got a book deal.

Another of our clients self-published a book and had it up on Amazon.com, but she was only getting one or two sales a week. We re-designed the cover image, fixed the book’s description and overview, and customized the sales copy on the author’s website. We also gave her some simple tips about how to increase sales and promote her book. In 2 weeks she was selling 5 copies a day. Her profit went from under $10 a week ($40 a month) to over $960 a month. Keep in mind that your book will be going up against hundreds of thousands of professionally designed and edited books, that probably already have a very decent marketing campaign. If your book is subpar and you don’t make as much of an effort developing quality sales material, there’s no way you can compete with them.

On your own, you might sell 2 books a day (which is still much better than most books sell) from your website or from Amazon. That’s $60 a month – not that bad. If you make $3 per sale, you get $180. But at the same time, you’re probably getting at least 20 people looking at your book each day and deciding not to buy it. If 1/2 of those people bought your book (10 a day), you’d have 300 sales a month and make $900. That means you’re losing over $10,000 a year in sales.

The fact is, having a good book isn’t enough. If you want anyone to read it, you’ve got to sell it.

To that end, we’ve teamed up with some of our professional contacts in order to offer you a complete and affordable book marketing and promotion package for much less than what you’d pay for each of these services alone. We’re calling it the Total Book Promo Package.

Here’s a list of what you get:

***please note, the list has been modified from the original offer – the price for ebook generation and book formatting varies depending on length; contact us for details***

1. Stunning, high quality book cover comparable to any you’d find in a bookstore (includes print-ready PDF and ebook cover!)

($500 Value)

2. Stylish promotional images of your book generated from different angles

($150 Value)

3. A review of the book title, subtitle and chapter headings with creative, keyword-rich alternate suggestions

($100 Value)

4. Copy Editing (or help composing) your Press Release, Query Letter, Author Bio, Book Proposal, Web Copy or Sales Page, Back Cover Copy, Synopsis or Summary – up to 5000 words

($85 Value)

5. One hour of personal consultation about your book marketing and promotion strategy (by email or online chat)

($150 Value)

6. A free copy of the book marketing and promotion ebook we’re creating, which will be ready in 2012

($95 Value)

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Total Value = $1080

Get it now for $550 only $350

As a special New Years Gift, we’re giving 5 of these packages away at the ridiculously low price of $350. That’s not even enough to pay for the professionally designed book cover. When these 5 gift packages are gone, the price will immediately go back up to the still very reasonable price of $550.

If these prices still sound expensive to you, go ahead and look at similar services offered at Lulu, Amazon, or Booksurge. The truth is, the same services at any of those sites would cost you well over $1000. Even if you only need a few of the services offered in our package, you’d be hard pressed to get them (not to mention personal, expert consulting) for less than $350.

Interested? Why not send us an email and tell us about your project?