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Sometimes the hardest part of getting on the radio is simply knowing who to call and what the contact information is. Imagine if you had the contact information of every radio show producer in your state. Outskirts Press provides you with everything you need to conduct on-air radio interviews to promote your book from the comfort and convenience of your own home. The majority of on-air interviews can take place over the phone. No travel required. Simply contact these producers and pitch your published book.

Contact information includes...

• Local phone numbers
• Personal email address
• Fax numbers
• Radio show names, call letters, and frequencies

To get your local radio show information absolutely free, simply sign-in to your free author's resource center account and enter your two-character state code into the appropriate box under "Author Data." For example, California would be CA. This is valid for United States residents only.

Your free Author's Center also includes...

• Illustrators & Cover Artists - Find an illustrator to collaborate with or use ours
• Writers Groups & Resources - Network with other writers and associations
• Editing & Transcribing - Find a professional editor or use our available services
• PR & Marketing Help - Public Relations & Marketing firms are just a click away
• Book Reviewers - Here are the addresses you need to solicit glowing reviews for your published book

Every book you publish with Outskirts Press receives its own marketing webpage, designed to promote and sell your book online. Choose from various color and designs lay-outs based upon your publishing package (Sapphire authors get 4 different formats to choose from).

The Sapphire webpages can be updated at any time and include blue, and green colors choices. A BUY link goes directly to your listing on Amazon.

 

• Change your webpage content and appearance at any time
• Add HTML to make your webpage really stand out
• Includes an easy URL to promote (for example outskirtspress.com/yourbook)

Browse sample webpages at the Outskirts Press Bookstore.

 

After your book is published, your personal, pre-formatted Sales Sheet will be available to you immmediately. Simply print as many copies as you need. Sales Sheets are instrumental to have as hand-outs at trade shows, book signings, and when pursuing sales and publicity. We have made it easy for you.

Your sales sheet includes

• All available editions of your book
• Your retail price and distributor discount
• Availability (wholesalers, distributors)
• Your book cover and author image (if supplied)
• Marketing copy and author biography

Here is the amazing part. You can change the content of your Sales Sheet whenever you want. The changes are made instantly for your convenience. See a sample of a sales sheet here.

Part of a coordinated book publication promotion campaign includes customized collateral such as bookmarks, business cards, postcards, and posters. These are not templates for you to create the materials yourself. These prices include the actual high quality, full-color, marketing materials, shipped directly to your house so you can use them to promote your book. They are fully customized just for you.

Bookmark details....

• Available in quantity packs of 500 for $199
• Full color front, black & white back
• 2" x 6" fully laminated stock
• Your cover image is on the front
• Your marketing copy is positioned on the back
• Back includes ordering information

Business Card details....

• Available in quantity packs of 500 for $199
• Full color front, black & white back
• 2" x 3.5" fully laminated stock
• Your cover image is on the front
• Your contact information is on the back

Postcard details....

• Available in quantity packs of 500 for $225
• Full color front, black & white back
• 4" x 6" fully laminated stock
• Your cover image is on the front
• Your marketing copy is positioned on the back

Small poster details....

• Available in quantity packs of 5 for $125
• 11" x 17" full color poster
• Your cover image is on the front

Large poster details....

• Available in quantity packs of 5 for $225
• 23" x 35" full color poster
• Your cover image is on the front

See samples of our bookmarks, postcards, and business cards here.

The CD Media/Press Kit is not available with the Sapphire Package. Consider upgrading to the Ruby or Diamond package.

 

Press Release writing with distribution is not available with the Sapphire Package. Consider upgrading to the Ruby or Diamond package.

The Publication Announcement is not available with the Sapphire Package. Consider upgrading to the Ruby or Diamond package.

 

Our Basic Editing Services costs 1.4 cents-per-word for fiction or non-fiction manuscripts. There is a 15,000 word minimum, so if your manuscript is less than 15,000 words, a word count of 15,000 words will be used to calculate the editing cost.

Poetry requires a different type of editing and is therefore handled on a case-by-case basis for an hourly rate. If you want editing services for your poems, please contact your Author Representative after acceptance.

Copy editing services will review your fiction or non-fiction manuscript for:

• Typographical errors
• Misspelled words
• Grammatical errors
• Punctuation
• Incorrect word use (i.e., effect/affect)
• Style consistency
• Standardization of spelling and capitalization
• Consistency of specific or repeated references

These corrections will be noted digitally on your manuscript and then emailed back to you. At that point, it is entirely up to you which of the edits you decide to accept or ignore. You always have the final say to ensure you maintain your "voice" in your book. The next manuscript you send back to us will be the one used for your publication.

If our editor feels your manuscript contains errors or issues that are beyond the scope of our basic editing service, we may suggest a more elevated level of editing services at a different rate. Of course, this suggestion is entirely up to you.

 

A picture is worth a thousand words, and each interior image and/or element you supply as a digital file can be custom placed into your document according to your instructions. There is a set-up fee of $49 which includes up to 10 interior images/elements that are provided to us digitally. This fee applies to each individual occurrence of tables, charts, or graphs, too, due to the additional formatting complexity of those elements.

For more than 10 images, additional packages of 10 can be purchased for $49 each.

If you supply hard copy images that need to be scanned, that package cost is $99 for 1 - 10 hardcopy images.

Our Diamond package is black/white for the interior so if you supply color images for the inside of your book they will revert to black and white when published.

For more than 5 images, send them to your Author Representative on a CD.

Regardless of whether you have placed them into your document or we are doing it for you, all images should be at least 300 DPI (dots per inch) .tif files. Line drawings should be at least 600DPI. We will use exactly what you send us, so prepare your image resolution and size carefully to fit within the final specs of your manuscript.

If your submitted images are not of sufficient quality for high-quality printing, you will be notified by your title production supervisor. At that point, you have three choices:

1) You can fix the images and submit them again.
2) You can authorize us in writing to use them "as is" and understand the quality may be sub-par.
3) You can consult with our graphic specialist who will optimize your images to the best quality possible, depending upon what you supplied. This costs $50/hour with a 15 minute minimum, billed in 15 minute increments.

 

If you only have a hard copy of your manuscript, we can offer transcription services, which is the process of re-typing your manuscript into a word processor. You will get the electronic Microsoft Word .doc file when the process is complete. An electronic version of your book is required for on-demand publication.

 

Indexing should be done after the initial interior format is done, so that the index pages match the book pages. We offer an indexing service to our Sapphire authors for $4/indexed page. This includes the entire final page count of the book (since each page has to be indexed), NOT the page count of just the index.

 

Feel like jumping to the front of the line? That's what expedited service is like. We'll put your publication on the fast track, slowing down only for necessary materials and feedback from you, and the number of expedited projects ahead of you.

The normal turnaround time is 10-13 weeks. With expedited service, the average timeframe is 7-10 weeks. These time frames are not guaranteed since so much of it depends upon your responsiveness and involvement.

 

We allow revisions after publication to modify, change, or enhance content to your book. Each post-publication revision "round" begins with a $149 set-up fee.

Moderate changes and revisions to the interior of your book incur $50/hour fees, billed in 15 minute increments.

Changes to the cover incur a $49 fee (for each format, if applicable).

Changes to your pricing and/or distribution information incur a $25 fee.

If reformatting of your document is necessary due to the extensive nature of the revisons, a $99 reformatting fee will also apply. A revision cannot alter the length of the book by more than 8 pages.