Talk Your Book™
Advantage offers a traditional manuscript review or our unique, proprietary Talk Your Bookprogram. Talk Your Book is custom tailored for the busy professional, who wants to expand their business with a book, but simply does not have the time to get their ideas onto paper. Advantage helps bring dreams to reality for anyone who has ever said “I should write a book” and then put it on the back burner. Come to Charleston for an Author Immersion Workday™ and speak your ideas, in our in-house recording studio. Your dedicated editor will transcribe your message and ideas into a book. Advantage is pleased to provide developmental, line and copyediting, in addition to title editing and back cover book synopsis. At Advantage, authors can look forward to one-on-one telephone consultations with, and access to, your devoted editor as the book’s message is fine tuned.
Creative & Design
Advantage has a team of seasoned designers ready to go to work for you. Our designers will create an original custom cover to suit your book, based on your input and ideas. Our professional team will typeset every page of your book, to provide an interior presentation with superior quality. Authors will be presented with a variety of interior design options that match the design concept of the cover, the book’s spine and the back cover. Advantage’s creative team will also create custom illustrations, charts, and graphics for the interior of your book, if appropriate for the subject matter. Authors have the added benefit of ongoing access to the design team throughout the creative and collaborative process.
Retail Distribution
Advantage provides distribution services through Ingram Book Group to over 25,000 bookstores and online retailers. Ingram has strategic relationships with all of the major booksellers including amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, borders.com, booksamillion.com, target.com and walmart.com. Your book will be listed in the Ingram iPage online catalog, which receives over 13,000 visits per day from bookstores and libraries, who place their orders directly through iPage. Books are also made available through traditional trade and retail outlets, chain buyers, wholesalers and distributors. Additionally, your book will be formatted for Espresso Book Machine distribution, which provides on-demand printing of over 300,000 titles, and available worldwide wherever the Espresso Book Machine is found.
Author Portrait Photo Shoot
Advantage invites you into the studio to have your professional photographic portrait taken. Over fifty photos will be taken by our trained professional photographer. You will have the opportunity to review all of the photos online and choose your favorite five. These photos will serve as your official “headshots” and “author photo” for the back cover of your book. These pictures can be used for promotional purposes on your website, in your marketing materials, on Facebook and LinkedIn. Advantage will use the photos in Author Advantage Magazine, at the time of your book’s release. We share the images with you on a CD or flash drive.
Imprints
To enhance our marketing efforts and to reach specific demographic consumer segments, Advantage works with several private, corporate, medical and educational imprints. Some existing imprints include Keynote Publishing, which publishes titles that lend well to speaking platforms, BarberCosby reaches the dental community, and Pilmma Publishing which is a leading publisher to attorneys and other professions associated with the law. Does your company or professional community need a publishing outlet? A publishing imprint is a powerful branding tool with instant credibility and clout. Get in touch with Advantage to discuss a strategic partnership.
