A La Carte Author Services
Now is the time to bring
your magic into the world.
Doing meaningful work in the world, such as telling your story, takes no prisoners and requires no less than all of your heart, talent, and biggest dreams. Entourage is a go-to book author services company specializing in editing, design, publishing, and marketing. Our purpose is to offer support to authors looking for a team to help bring their dream, their magic, into the world in a professional, polished, inspiring way. You will have a backstage pass to a small but mighty team of book lovers, wordsmiths, techies, screenwriters, illustrators, and marketers who see your vision as clearly as you do – the ones who know how wild the ride to book publishing can be, and yet are still ready to yell “shotgun!” and join in for the ride.
Ghostwriting takes your vision and rough notes [and notes from our interviews with you] and turns it into a fully developed book that is ready for publication.
From notebooks filled with your thoughts and ideas to a fully finished, professional book.
Ghostwriting can take 3 to 12+ months, depending on the project. Availability is extremely limited.
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Weekly one-to-one sessions that include writing reviews, expansion of ideas, and more.
Book coaching helps make intimidating parts of the writing and publishing process simpler and more accessible to every author.
This is for authors who want someone to bounce ideas off and to add method to the madness, keeping them accountable. Friends don't let friends write alone.
Developmental Editing is your skyview, big-picture editing service. We look at the structure of your manuscript - characters, tone, and book.
Copy Editing is for manuscripts that need someone to sharpen and improve the text quality.
Proofreading - a close-up look for spelling and grammar - should be the last pass we do of your manuscript.
Interior page design and layout, including font styles, headings, running headers, spacing, special paragraph styles, indexes, and more.
A cover design that sells, including preparation for Amazon, Ingram, ebook, paperback, and hardcover.
People DO judge a book by its cover. So, let's make sure your readers love yours as much as you do.
Publishing your book is just the beginning! That's when the fun, the author experience, truly takes off.
You'll be talking about your new book in press releases, news interviews, on podcasts, in your marketing funnel, and through your author newsletter and website. If all of this makes you nauseaus just thinking about it, Entourage will be your go-to team for all things marketing.
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Many authors dream of their stories being the next big Netflix series or movie.
Our in-house script and story consulting team is available to guide you through your book's film/TV options.
From script writing to pitching pilots, you will be able to turn to your Entourage for answers, ideas, and options.
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Your book launches, talks, and signing events should be the highlight of your author experience. On the flip side, events require logistics organization and execution if they're going to go smoothly. Signage, marketing, venue selection, volunteer apparel, catering, emcees, ticket sales, and RSVP forms, parking and hotel arrangements, liasoning with venue or book sop staff... You focus on being an author. We will help with the rest.
Plug your book into a distribution networks of over 40k iIndependent bookstores, online stores, chain stores, ebook retailers, libraries, and Universities. Your title will be available to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Independent bookstores, Walmart.com, Target.com, Chapters / Indigo (Canada) and more.
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Entrepreneurs who write non-fiction knowledge-share titles do so to help more people at one time than they otherwise could in person.
By sharing their expertise, their contact list grows, as does their client list.
Books spell out their author's zone of genius, shares their "why" in their own voice, and paints a picture of what any client could expect from working with them.
Can we skip to the good part?!
When your rewrites have rewrites.
Is your manuscript at the point that it has been written, re-written, and re-written again? Perfect. Welcome to your new creative, safe space and your next best step.
Editing & Proofreading
To polish and perfect
Entourage delivers developmental editing, copy editing, and proofreading that, together, will be transformative for your book. Rely on Entourage to keep your project on track, making course adjustments where necessary.
Design
To send a message
When you see an inexpensive or DIY book design, you know it. It sends a message. All publishing contracts include interior page and cover design done by professionals who know how critical it is to your book’s brand and messaging to get it right. Font choices, spacing, consistency, headers, footers, index formatting, character and paragraph styling, photo placement, and editing… If it sounds like a lot of work, you’re not wrong. But when you have a team of book nerds, writers, editors, and designers, you can take refuge in a smoother, faster process. and a book you can be proud of.
Tech Support
To make it happen
When you find someone who is good at writing AND at tech, you keep them forever. And so we have. From meta tags to pre-press set-up, tech mistakes can ruin your launch. Whereas good tech, helps your book lands in stores and on bookshelves across North America. For magazine producers, we can help you gain a distributor and placements within book and grocery stores.
Marketing
To launch, sell, & create a profit plan
Launch teams, beta readers, mailing lists, publication day events, lead funnels, book sales, and profit that exceeds what you’ve put into your project: that’s the goal, right? Writing a book can generate revenue in many ways. For some authors, revenue comes from corporate book sales. For others, it’s bookstore sales, and for many, it’s a combination of all of the above plus an increased business revenue (such as from coaching programs and programs) that changes their lives, brand, and reputation. The fun part is deciding what sounds best to you and creating a map from here to there. Your job is to write something that makes a difference in the world. Our job is, well, everything else!