Services

Professional publishing support for every stage of the author journey.

Stanford Books helps authors understand their options, prepare their work, present their books professionally, and build the visibility needed to reach readers with confidence.

Service Overview

A clearer path from manuscript to marketplace.

Whether you are preparing a finished manuscript, refining your author presentation, or planning a book marketing campaign, our services are designed to meet authors where they are and guide them toward the next professional step.

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Publishing Services

Organized publishing support for authors ready to move forward.

Publishing Services help authors prepare the essential pieces needed to move from manuscript to market with a professional foundation.

Best for

Authors with completed manuscripts who need guidance, preparation, coordination, and publication setup.

Basic Publishing Program

Our Basic Publishing Program is designed for authors who have a completed manuscript and need professional support to prepare their book for publication. This service helps organize the essential publishing steps, including formatting, file preparation, basic design direction, and publishing setup, so your book can move from manuscript to market with confidence.

Premium Publishing Program

Our Premium Publishing Program provides a more complete publishing experience for authors who want hands-on guidance from preparation to release. This program includes stronger project coordination, editorial support, book presentation, distribution guidance, and launch preparation to help your book enter the market with a polished and professional foundation.

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Editorial Services

Professional manuscript review, polish, and reader-focused refinement.

Editorial Services help authors strengthen readability, structure, clarity, consistency, and overall manuscript quality while preserving the author's voice.

Best for

Authors who want professional feedback, stronger writing, cleaner pages, or a manuscript that is better prepared for publication.

Editorial Review

An Editorial Review gives authors a professional assessment of their manuscript before deeper editing or publishing begins. It identifies the manuscript's strengths, weaknesses, structure, readability, and recommended next steps, helping authors understand what the book needs before investing in the next stage.

Copyediting

Copyediting focuses on correcting grammar, spelling, punctuation, consistency, and sentence clarity. This service helps clean and polish the manuscript while preserving the author's voice, making the book more professional and ready for formatting or publication.

Line Editing

Line Editing improves the manuscript at the sentence and paragraph level. It strengthens flow, tone, word choice, rhythm, clarity, and emotional impact, helping the writing feel smoother, stronger, and more engaging for readers.

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Book Presentation

Professional formats, layouts, cover direction, and reader-ready book files.

Book Presentation brings the manuscript into a polished format for digital, print, audio, and market-facing use. Cover Design now lives within this complete presentation family.

Best for

Authors preparing a book for publication who need the final product to look credible, readable, and market-ready.

eBook

Our eBook service prepares your manuscript for digital reading platforms. We format the book for a clean and readable digital experience, including proper chapter structure, clickable navigation, and device-friendly presentation.

Paperback

Our Paperback service prepares your book for print publication with proper trim size, margins, pagination, and interior structure. This ensures your printed book looks professional, readable, and ready for distribution.

Formatting

Formatting organizes the manuscript into a clean publication-ready file. This includes chapter headings, spacing, page breaks, front matter, back matter, and overall manuscript structure for a smooth reading experience.

Layout

Layout focuses on the visual arrangement of the book's interior pages. This is especially important for books with images, illustrations, poetry, charts, special sections, or design-heavy content that requires careful placement and readability.

Cover Design

A professional cover helps create a strong first impression. Our Cover Design service develops or refines the book's front cover, back cover, and spine so the final design reflects the book's genre, message, and market appeal.

Audiobook

Our Audiobook service helps authors prepare their work for audio format. This may include audiobook planning, narration guidance, manuscript preparation for recording, production coordination, and platform preparation depending on the project's needs.

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Marketing Support

Visibility, credibility, digital promotion, reviews, and media opportunities.

Marketing Support gives authors a wider set of promotional options before release, after publication, or during a relaunch.

Best for

Authors who want more visibility, reviews, media presence, website support, video promotion, or a stronger digital footprint.

Publicity Marketing

Publicity Marketing helps authors create visibility through professional announcements, media exposure, and promotional opportunities. This service is ideal for authors who want to introduce their book to a wider audience through press releases, interviews, and publicity-driven campaigns.

Press Release

A Press Release presents your book, author story, launch, relaunch, or milestone in a professional media-ready format. It helps position your book with a clear angle that can be used for announcements, publicity campaigns, and media outreach.

TV and Radio Interviews

TV and Radio Interview support helps authors gain exposure through scheduled media opportunities. We help position the author, prepare talking points, and coordinate interview opportunities when included in the selected service package.

Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing helps authors build visibility online through social media, websites, search presence, and content planning. This service is designed to help readers, reviewers, and media contacts discover and connect with the author and the book.

Social Media

Social Media support helps authors present their book consistently across online platforms. This may include content planning, captions, graphics direction, campaign ideas, and author page optimization to build a stronger digital presence.

Website

An author website gives readers, media contacts, reviewers, and potential partners one central place to learn about the author and their work. We help structure websites that highlight the author, books, reviews, media features, and contact opportunities.

SEO

SEO helps improve the online discoverability of the author and the book. This includes search-friendly content structure, keyword direction, page titles, descriptions, and website improvements that support long-term visibility.

Book Reviews

Book Reviews help build credibility by giving readers and promotional partners a third-party perspective on the book. Stanford Books can help coordinate paid review placements with selected review platforms depending on the author's goals, genre, and marketing plan.

Kirkus

Kirkus is a respected review platform often used by authors who want a professional editorial review that can support credibility, marketing, and reader trust.

Clarion

Clarion reviews are useful for authors seeking thoughtful, professional feedback that can be used for promotional materials, book pages, and marketing campaigns.

BlueInk

BlueInk provides professional reviews for independently published books and can help authors strengthen their book's credibility with reader-facing review content.

Hollywood Book Review

Hollywood Book Review is ideal for authors who want their book assessed from a film, television, or entertainment perspective, especially for stories with screen adaptation potential.

US Review of Books

US Review of Books provides professional book reviews that can help support book marketing, author visibility, and promotional credibility.

Pacific Book Review

Pacific Book Review offers review coverage that can help authors present their work to readers, media contacts, and promotional audiences.

Video Advertising

Video Advertising helps authors promote their book visually through trailers, short-form videos, YouTube content, and social media campaigns. This service is ideal for books that need a stronger emotional, cinematic, or visual presentation.

Book Video Trailer

A Book Video Trailer introduces the book's message, theme, or story in a short promotional video. It is useful for websites, social media, email campaigns, and online book promotion.

Cinematic Video Trailer

A Cinematic Video Trailer creates a more dramatic and story-driven presentation of the book. This is ideal for fiction, memoir, historical stories, inspirational works, and books with strong film or television potential.

YouTube Marketing

YouTube Marketing helps authors use video content to reach more readers online. This may include channel setup, video posting strategy, title and description guidance, and promotional planning for book-related video content.

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Design Consultation

Visual guidance for covers, interiors, campaigns, and author identity.

Design Consultation helps authors make stronger visual decisions before design work begins or while refining existing creative materials.

Best for

Authors who want professional visual direction without guessing what style fits their genre, audience, and promotional goals.

Cover Direction

Cover Direction helps authors define the right visual approach for their book before or during the design process. We provide guidance on genre expectations, imagery, typography, color direction, and overall market appeal.

Interior Style

Interior Style consultation helps determine how the inside of the book should look and feel. This includes recommendations for fonts, spacing, chapter design, image placement, and reader-friendly page presentation.

Marketing Material Design

Marketing Material Design support helps authors create a consistent visual identity across promotional materials such as flyers, social media graphics, banners, book ads, and campaign assets.

Author Visual Branding

Author Visual Branding helps create a consistent look for the author across books, websites, social media, media kits, and promotional platforms. This helps authors appear more professional and recognizable.

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Distribution Setup

Platform preparation for wider book availability.

Distribution Setup helps authors prepare book information, platform details, and listing direction for retail and reader discovery channels.

Best for

Authors who want their books prepared for availability through major retailers, reader communities, and broader distribution channels.

Amazon

Amazon setup helps prepare the book for listing and availability on one of the largest book retail platforms. This may include guidance on book information, description, categories, author details, and publication setup.

Goodreads

Goodreads setup helps authors establish or improve their presence within a reader-focused book community. It supports book discovery, reader engagement, reviews, and author visibility.

Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble setup helps prepare the book for potential listing and visibility through Barnes & Noble-related retail channels, depending on the publishing route and distribution setup.

Chapters

Chapters setup supports authors who want to improve their book's potential visibility within Canadian retail channels, depending on distribution eligibility and platform requirements.

Indigo

Indigo setup helps authors prepare their book information for potential visibility through Indigo-related platforms and retail channels where applicable.

Ingram

Ingram setup supports broader distribution opportunities for books intended for retailers, bookstores, libraries, and wholesale channels. This is useful for authors who want wider availability beyond a single platform.

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Author Branding

A clearer author presence across reader, media, and promotional platforms.

Author Branding helps writers present themselves with consistency, credibility, and a message that supports long-term publishing goals.

Best for

Authors who want stronger bios, messaging, platform direction, media materials, and a professional author identity.

Author Positioning

Author Positioning helps define how an author should be presented to readers, media contacts, reviewers, and publishing opportunities. It clarifies the author's message, audience, credibility, and long-term direction.

Bio Development

Bio Development creates or improves the author biography for use on book covers, websites, media kits, Amazon pages, social media profiles, and promotional materials. A strong bio helps establish trust and authority.

Brand Message

Brand Message development helps authors communicate who they are, what they write, and why their work matters. This gives the author a clear and consistent voice across platforms.

Website and Social Media Direction

Website and Social Media Direction helps authors create a consistent online presence. This includes recommendations for page structure, content themes, author profile presentation, and promotional strategy.

Media Kit Guidance

Media Kit Guidance helps authors prepare professional materials for reviewers, media contacts, event organizers, and promotional partners. This may include an author bio, book summary, press release, review quotes, contact information, and media-ready assets.

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Manuscript Development

Support for early ideas, developing manuscripts, and projects that need direction.

Manuscript Development helps authors turn ideas, notes, outlines, or unfinished work into a clearer book project.

Best for

Authors who need help shaping a book idea, organizing early material, or deciding what the manuscript needs next.

Ghostwriting

Ghostwriting is for authors who have a story, idea, message, or expertise but need professional help turning it into a complete manuscript. We help shape the author's ideas into a structured, readable book while keeping the author's voice and vision at the center.

Preliminary Editorial Assessment

A Preliminary Editorial Assessment helps determine the current condition of a manuscript, outline, or book idea before deeper writing, editing, or publishing begins. It gives authors clear direction on what the project needs next and helps identify the most practical path forward.

Not Sure Where to Start?

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If you are unsure whether you need editing, publishing, design, marketing, distribution, or author branding support, start with a consultation. We will help you identify the service that best fits your current stage.

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