We use our ethical, professional publishing knowledge to offer your book the best possible foundation.
As self-publishing has grown in recent years, there is still a wide gap between the few successful self-published authors, and the millions of others whose books sit, unread, deep on Amazon’s servers.
This is partly down to the quality of the manuscripts, and partly because of a lack of knowledge and enthusiasm from the author. On top of that there’s a big slice of luck.
We’re no four-leaf clover, but we can help you with those first two issues. We are The Invisible Imprint, giving your book the foundation it needs for you to be a successful author. If we accept your manuscript it’s because it hasn’t been accepted in professional publishing but it has a quality that can be worked with. We then provide you with a professional edit, a bespoke publicity plan from a professional publicist, a cover design from a professional designer, ISBNs, a final professional standard typeset of the manuscript, and then put it straight into our wider publishing house’s distribution channels.
Why Use Us?
The Invisible Imprint is designed to give you and your title(s) the best chance in the world of self-publishing. We have experience of publishing best-sellers in fiction and non-fiction alike, through the hundreds of titles in our Ockham Publishing Group, which was set up to provide publishing imprints which are more ethical and offer author friendly terms.
As a result, whilst other self-publishing companies charge authors upwards of £5,000-7,000 as a base price for publishing a book – but do not tell you the price until you have had lengthy sales chats with them – ours are much lower, and are transparently available on our website. Like with our other imprints, we exist to be an ethical publisher, so we know how much work it really takes to put a POD book out professionally, and we adjust our prices to cover our costs in doing that rather than inflating them to cover the dividends of directors.
And these are not just words.
We recently conducted a survey of all the authors we have published via our commercial Vulpine Press imprint (where we have published around 200 titles). 92.3% believed that Vulpine had done a good job in publishing their work, whilst 91.6% would work with us again (not including the authors who already have worked with us again).
Publishers don’t regularly ask their authors for feedback like this (which tells its own story), but the little research we do have tends to say that the satisfaction level is usually around 42%. We’re proud to be a class above.
We are happy to tailor plans to meet our author’s needs, but our default ‘plan for success’ offers the following:
Editing
A professional editor will edit your manuscript, getting it to a pro standard.
Typesetting
A typesetter will create a professionally formatted typeset from the finished manuscript.
Kindle Formatting
Your book is then formatted ready for inclusion in the kindle marketplace, too.
ISBNs and Registration
Your book is given both paperback and e-copy ISBNs, registered for sale globally.
Professional Cover Design
Our designer will provide you with a professional cover design, which you can have as much or as little input in as you wish.
Bespoke Publicity Plan
A publicist, with big publisher experience, will write a bespoke publicity plan for your book.
Promotion Advice
Different to your publicity plan, we’ll give you the knowledge of how to market your book online, and how to make use of promotional periods.
Available to Readers Globally
Your book will be available to buy in 12 English-speaking countries, including online stores such as Barnes and Noble, Amazon and Waterstones.
The II Labelling and Website Inclusion
Your book will be signed up and labelled with our imprint and logo, giving your book and sales pages a more professional look.
90% Royalties, paid twice a year
We only keep 10% royalties to cover our ongoing admin costs.
Price Control
Unless you prefer to publish it yourself, your book will go up registered to The Invisible Imprint. We advise on what to charge, but you have complete control over how much it goes up for.
Visibility
We pass on any enquiries about foreign and translation rights to you, as you retain full rights to your book throughout the process. Rights can be removed, or sold, by you at any time.
Our default package involves all the same services, as detailed above, and differs only based on the size of your manuscript. The price ranges are as follows:
Length of Manuscript
50,000-70,000
70,001-90,000
90,001-110,000
110,001-130,000
130,001-150,000
Price*
£2,800
£3,000
£3,200
£3,400
£3,600
All prices are quoted in GBP; however, the service is available to any English-speaking country and can be converted into other currencies. Please get in touch for more details.
For books over 150,000 or below 50,00 words, please specify in the contact form for a bespoke quote.
*After publishing, the only costs you will incur are if in the second year, or any subsequent year, your sales drop below 100 units (of any format). In this case you will be billed a £20 admin cost per year (to cover the cost of the transaction royalty payments, registration costs, etc.), or you can choose to remove your book from our distribution at that point if you prefer. No matter what happens in the first year, you are covered by your fee from the above range. And there are no hidden costs at any point.