Your target to see yourself as a published author can only be possible by self publishing a book unless you bagged a deal with a traditional publisher ensuring a big advance amount for your exceptional world. Unfortunately, the truth of harsh reality doesn’t always allow the modern-day writers to depend totally on the traditional publishers as they might or might not show interest in working with them.
Despite withstanding the challenges if you agree to self-publish your newly written book then there are certain initial services you require with a professional intervention. Tie up with a celebrated agency such as Maple Publishers, holding a genuine goodwill by offering satisfactory and diverse self-publishing services to writers from helping them find book illustrators UK to an eBook conversion professional.
Here are the four mandatory services you need before self-publishing a book—
Book cover creation
You might be able to complete your own book without the help of a ghostwriter and then process an editing, however, to design book covers front and back, you might need a professional unless you have a keenness for designing covers. The agencies provide a customized package service where they add the creation of the cover design besides layout design and additional services as requested by their clients.
Illustration Services
Following the contribution of cover designers, hire illustrators if your book is dedicated to children or you have written a comic or manga for adults or young adults. Based on your requirements, choose the illustrator. Make sure, this professional has already worked for several comics or mangas before hiring them. Even the doodle painters can also do incredible illustrations and sometimes they are also used as cover designs as well.
eBook Conversion
If you choose to unveil your book in an eBook format to the new age readers who appreciate reading online books on Kindle and other devices then opting for ebook conversion of the final manuscript is essential. Despite writing the manuscript on MS Word or any other software, converting it into an ePUB format is essential before uploading on Kindle Direct Publishing, Google Books or any online platform you select to publish the new book.
Book Layout designing
Finally, it’s the layout design of the book that demands an expert opinion. Following the trends, the layout designers at the top London-based self-publishing agencies can design the layouts for the hardcopies or paperbacks. Even for the eBooks you need to design the layout with hovering illustrations and so on.