More than four hundred authors published since 2016. The first call is free, and nothing is charged until the plan is in writing.
The problem
“I have written 40,000 words and no idea what happens next.”
One editor reads all 40,000 words and comes back with a chapter by chapter plan: what stays, what moves, what is still missing.
“I got a quote for $18,000 and could not tell what I was paying for.”
One number with nothing under it is the problem. Ours is broken out line by line: every pass, who does it, how many revisions, and what you own at the end.
“I published on Amazon and sold nine copies.”
That is what a launch with no reviews, no email list and no categories looks like. Amazon shows a book to strangers only once it is already selling.
Six stages, seven services. You can take all of it or the one piece you are missing.
Six stages. Here is what happens in each one, what we do, and what you have to do.
Stage one
You talk, we take notes. You end up with a written outline, a clear reader in mind, and an honest read on whether the book will sell.
A ninety minute concept call, recorded and transcribed
A market check on the twelve closest competing books
and 2 more
Turn up to one call and talk about what you know
Read the outline and tell us what is wrong with it
and 1 more
Stage two
The book gets written. A ghostwriter interviews you, writes in your voice, and you review every chapter as it lands.
Weekly recorded interviews of sixty to ninety minutes
A named writer who stays on the project to the end
and 2 more
One interview a week for twelve to twenty weeks
Read each batch within a week and mark what does not sound like you
and 1 more
Stage three
The manuscript becomes a book object: editing, proofreading, cover design, and the interior layout that decides how the printed page looks.
Three passes: structure, then sentences, then errors
Two cover concepts and three revision rounds, tested at thumbnail size
and 2 more
Approve the edit, cover and interior at three sign off points
Read the proof once, carefully. Last chance to catch a wrong date
and 1 more
Stage four
Your book goes on sale. We open the accounts in your name, upload the files, set the price, and check every listing before it goes live.
Amazon KDP and IngramSpark accounts opened in your name
Paperback, hardback and ebook files uploaded, priced and proofed
and 2 more
Provide identity and tax details. The accounts and the money are yours
Approve the final price and the listing text
and 1 more
Stage five
A book merely on sale is invisible. Launch is the weeks where we put it in front of readers who already buy books like yours.
A launch plan with dates, categories and a target for the first thirty days
Amazon advertising managed, with spend and return reported weekly
and 2 more
Send one email to your own contacts. This matters more than anything we do
Sit for three to eight podcast interviews we book
and 1 more
Stage six
Launch ends and the book either keeps selling or it does not. This stage is the difference, and it is the part most companies stop doing.
A monthly royalty and sales report in plain language
Review generation through legitimate reader programmes, never paid reviews
and 2 more
Read one report a month, which takes about five minutes
Tell us when something changes that the book should reflect
and 1 more
Tell us the stage you are at. An editor reads it, then writes back with the honest next step for a book like yours. No charge, and no sales call unless you ask for one.
Packages
Pick the one that matches where your book is today. Between two? Ask, and we will say which fits, even when it is the cheaper one.
Self-Publishing and Management
$199$399
Half price
For authors with a finished manuscript.
Everything needed to get your book edited, designed, and on sale on Amazon and Kindle.
About 3 to 4 weeks
Multi-Platform and Author Growth
Most authors choose this
$599$1,199
Half price
For authors who want to sell beyond Amazon.
The same build, then out to every major store, into libraries and bookshops, in paperback and hardcover.
About 4 to 6 weeks
Everything in Self-Publishing and Management, plus
Enterprise Global and Author Brand
$999$1,999
Half price
For authors building a brand around the book.
Worldwide distribution, your own website, and the marketing setup to sell direct at a better margin.
About 6 to 8 weeks
Everything in Multi-Platform and Author Growth, plus
All three are running at half price. The price is fixed when you sign, and nothing is added to your bill without your say so.
Published
Twelve of the four hundred and some titles we have taken from a first call to a book on sale.
The Quiet Hours
Dr Marisol Vance
Health · 2024 · Enterprise Global and Author Brand
Ship It Twice
Ade Okonkwo
Business · 2024 · Self-Publishing and Management
A Village of Small Wars
Helen Brightwater
Memoir · 2023 · Multi-Platform and Author Growth
The Lease You Can Do
Ravi Patel
Business · 2023 · Self-Publishing and Management
Ordinary Mercy
Pastor Ellis Kade
Faith · 2024 · Multi-Platform and Author Growth
The Second Shift
Nadia Oyelaran
Self help · 2025 · Enterprise Global and Author Brand
Salt and Iron
Thomas Bell
History · 2023 · Multi-Platform and Author Growth
What My Father Carried
Yusra Almasi
Memoir · 2025 · Enterprise Global and Author Brand
The Founder Checkup
Dr Ian Reeve
Health · 2024 · Enterprise Global and Author Brand
Ninety Days of Nothing
Coral Mendes
Self help · 2022 · Self-Publishing and Management
The Back Office Empire
Grant Whitfield
Business · 2025 · Multi-Platform and Author Growth
Keeping the Lamps Lit
Rev Iris Nakamura
Faith · 2022 · Multi-Platform and Author Growth
Sample portfolio. Titles and covers shown here are illustrative.
See the full list“I had eleven years of clinical notes and a folder of talks, and three separate companies had quoted me somewhere between nine and twenty two thousand dollars without ever explaining what the difference was.
What made me sign with SG was that they sent me the milestone schedule and the name of my editor before I had paid anything, and the editor emailed me herself.
The part I was most afraid of was that it would come back sounding like a corporate brochure, and it did not, because they sent me two chapters at week four and I could hear my own voice in them.
It has sold just over four thousand copies, and more importantly it is the reason two hospital systems now call me instead of the other way round.”
Dr Marisol Vance
Paediatric sleep specialist, Portland
The Quiet Hours
Health and parenting
Result
Just over 4,000 copies in fourteen months, and a speaking calendar that now books nine months ahead.
Why SG
Ask these of everyone you are considering, and get the answers in writing.
What usually happens
What happens here
Including the awkward ones, answered the way they are answered on a call.
Between $199 and $999 at the moment, because all three packages are running at half price. The full prices are $399, $1,199 and $1,999. A finished draft that needs editing, design and publishing is the low end. A book written, published and marketed from nothing is the high end.
The price is fixed when you sign and split into milestones, so you are never asked for the whole sum up front. Anything outside the package is priced before the work starts. No surprise invoices.
All of them. We take no percentage of your sales, ever.
Every retail account, Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Audible and the rest, is registered in your name with your bank details and your tax information. The money goes from the retailer to you and never passes through us. You can revoke our access to those accounts at any time and the book keeps selling.
Worth checking with anyone you talk to. Some companies register the accounts in their own name, which means they hold your money, your listing and your ability to change the price.
If your manuscript is finished, roughly 8 to 10 weeks to a book on sale. If we are writing it from scratch, roughly 5 to 7 months, and 7 to 10 months for a longer book with an audiobook and a managed campaign.
The single thing that changes the schedule is how quickly you review what we send. Authors who read a batch of chapters within a week finish months earlier than authors who let three batches pile up.
No. Anyone who guarantees it is either misleading you or planning to buy the ranking in a category so small that the title is meaningless.
Amazon ranks books inside categories, and some are small enough that thirty or forty sales in a day puts a book at number one for a few hours. That is a real ranking and close to worthless, and a company can produce it on demand.
We aim instead at categories where your book can honestly compete, forecast the first thirty days before launch, and report the real numbers afterwards even when they disappoint. Around a third of our launches reach number one in a category that means something, and we will say on the first call which side of that yours is on.
Check four things, with us and with everyone else you are considering.
Will the retail accounts and the ISBN be in my name, in writing? What percentage of royalties do you take, and do you call a cut a partnership? What is the name and background of the editor on my book, not the size of the team? What happens after launch, and does it cost more?
A company that will not answer those four plainly is not the right company, and that includes us if we ever stop.
Thirty minutes, no obligation, and a written plan for your book afterwards either way.
Not ready to book a slot? Call +1 (555) 014-8820 or write to contact@sgpublication.com.
