Case studies

What happened between the draft and the shelf.

Two books followed from first conversation to print: what the author brought, what changed, and how it went.

Two books, start to press.

Case study · Memoir

Starting point: Forty hours of recorded family interviews and no written draft.
Challenge: Turning oral history into a chronological narrative without flattening the narrator’s voice.
Result: A 68,000-word memoir in paperback and eBook, approved by the author before release.

68,000

Words

Formats

14 wks

To press

“They wrote it the way my father talked. That is the part I did not expect.”
R. Alvarez, author

Case study · Children’s

Starting point: A finished rhyming text with no illustrations and no page plan.
Challenge: Fitting 900 words to a 32-page format and developing a character that carries a series.
Result: A full-colour hardcover with a character sheet the author owns outright.

Pages

Colour spreads

100%

Author-owned art

“Mabel looks exactly like the drawing in my head, only better.”
J. Okafor, author

“The developmental edit cut two chapters and the book finally moved. I approved every change.”

D. MarchettiThe Quiet Ledger · Business

“I kept my rights, my files and my royalties. They put all of it in the agreement before I paid anything.”
S. BellStill Waters, Still Here · Faith
“Six weeks from manuscript to a hardcover I was proud to hand to my mother.”
T. NakamuraWhat the River Kept · Fiction

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