Book Publishing Services for Authors Who Keep 100% of Their Rights
Publishing companies take your royalties for life. Vanity presses own your ISBN. DIY paths take six months. AuthorWings does none of that. Full-service book publishing for a flat fee, with every Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Google Play, and IngramSpark account set up in your name. Live on every major retailer in as little as 4 weeks, with 100% of royalties yours.
100%
Royalties Kept
Full-Service
Book Publishing
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5+
Years of Experience
—Who WE are
One publishing partner instead of four freelancers you manage
Hiring separate freelancers for editing, design, formatting, and marketing costs you three months and roughly twice what a single bundled contract costs. The timelines never align. The rates never match. You become the project manager for a team that has never worked together.
AuthorWings handles every publishing service in one place. One project manager. One invoice. The tier defines the scope, and the price is on the page before you ask.
AuthorWings LLC is a New York-registered company with a team that has 5+ years of experience and hundreds of projects delivered across fiction, non-fiction, memoir, and children’s books. The pricing stays competitive because the scope is fixed before the project starts, not because the scope gets cut later. You keep creative control; AuthorWings handles the rest.
—WHAT WE OFFER
Six author services from idea to launch day
A finished book on Amazon is the result of six different jobs, not one. Writing the manuscript. Editing it until it stops sounding like a draft. Designing a cover and interior that do not announce “self-published.” Setting up distribution. Running a launch that gets the book in front of actual readers. And coaching, for authors writing it themselves. AuthorWings delivers all six author services under a single contract, or any one of them on its own.
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Ghostwriting
A professional writer turns your concept, transcripts, or rough draft into a finished manuscript in your voice. Memoir, non-fiction, fiction, and children’s books. NDAs standard. You hold the byline, the copyright, and the royalties.
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Book Editing
Developmental, line, copy, and proof editing on a per-service or bundled basis. Pricing transparent on the page. EFA rate-aligned. Free sample edit before you commit.
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Book Design
Cover design and interior formatting for ebook and print. Genre-correct visual language, KDP and IngramSpark file specs, fixed-layout options for children’s and illustrated books.
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Book Publishing
Distribution setup across Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Apple Books, Kobo, and Google Play. ISBN registration, metadata optimization, pricing strategy, and copyright registration guidance. Every account in your name.
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Book Marketing
Pre-launch positioning, ARC distribution coordination, Amazon Ads strategy, and ongoing visibility campaigns. Optional premium services for podcast booking, PR, and book fair exhibition.
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Book Coaching
One-on-one work for authors writing the book themselves. Manuscript review, structural feedback, accountability, and craft coaching. Designed for writers who want to do the writing and still have the structure checked.
—CATEGORIES WE COVER
Why genre changes how a book gets published
A thriller and a children’s picture book share almost none of the same production decisions. Different trim sizes. Different cover conventions. Different metadata categories on Amazon. Different reader expectations the moment the book opens. Publishing services that ignore genre produce books that sit in the wrong category and never find their audience.
Fiction Publishing
Novels across thriller, romance, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, literary, and historical fiction. Cover design follows genre conventions readers actually scan for. Metadata optimization targets the BISAC codes that matter for visibility. Series setup for multi-book launches.
Non-Fiction Publishing
Business, self-help, memoir, biography, history, and how-to. Positioning the author as an authority matters more here than genre convention does. Subtitle architecture, back-cover copy, and Amazon A+ Content built to hold a reader past the first scroll. Print-on-demand setup standard.
Children’s Book Publishing
Picture books, chapter books, middle grade, and young adult. Fixed-layout formatting for illustrated books. Age-band metadata. Reading-level placement. Print specs that survive a four-year-old. Children’s book publishing is its own category, and it is priced as one.
Specialty Book Publishing
Cookbooks, photo books, poetry, art books, religious texts, academic, and technical. Custom trim sizes, color interior printing, layout-heavy designs, and distribution setup that handles non-standard formats. Specialty pricing depends on production complexity.
—FREE TOOLS
Six free author tools you can use right now
Most author tools online sit behind an email gate, a free trial, or a “verify your account” loop. AuthorWings tools do not. Each one runs in the browser, returns results in seconds, and asks for nothing in return. Useful when a finished manuscript still needs a sharper title, and when a quiet Amazon listing needs a better description hours before launch.
Book Title Generator
Generates dozens of working title options from genre, tone, and theme inputs. Returns a shortlist you can test against a cover mockup before you commit one to the spine. Useful when the manuscript is finished but the title still feels close-but-not-right.
Description Generator
Drafts an Amazon-ready book description from genre, premise, and tone inputs. Outputs the back-cover-style copy that turns a browsing reader into a buyer before they scroll past. Worth running at launch, and again on any backlist title that has gone quiet.
Hook Generator
Produces one-line book hooks under sixteen words, across five distinct hook styles. Outputs the line that opens an Amazon description, a Facebook ad, and a TikTok caption at once. Useful when ad click-through is flat and the cover is not the problem.
Character Name Generator
Returns ten character names with etymology, cultural origin, and archetype fit. Filters by genre, era, and personality so names fit the world. Useful when the protagonist has been Sarah for forty thousand words.
Author Bio Generator
Drafts a professional author bio in three lengths (short, medium, full) from career, credentials, and tone inputs. Covers the back cover, the Amazon Author Page, and every podcast booking form. For the writer whose pages are strong and whose introduction is not.
Pen Name Generator
Generates pen names with cultural authenticity, genre fit, and period feel. Comes with the legal mechanics most pen-name guides skip: KDP setup, copyright filing, and tax reporting. Run this before launching a second identity in a genre your current name cannot carry.
—WHY AUTHORWINGS
Two promises behind every book publishing project
Most publishing companies bury the things that matter to authors behind a “request a quote” form. Pricing. Royalty splits. Rights ownership. Account registration. AuthorWings runs the opposite model. Two promises sit at the front of every AuthorWings project, full-service or single-service, and both are written into the contract before a dollar changes hands.
Transparent tiered pricing on every page
Every service page on this site shows the full tier range in plain numbers, not a floor price with the ceiling hidden. Ghostwriting $5,495 to $24,999. Covers $199 to $999. Publishing $249 to $1,299. Editing from $299. The range is on the page before the call, and the tier you pick is the price you pay. There is no custom quote priced to the customer’s apparent budget rather than the work itself.
Hybrid contracts are priced backwards from the buyer’s budget, which is why the price is not on the page. AuthorWings prices the work instead. The bundle, the tier, and the scope determine the price. Not the customer’s perceived ability to pay.
100% of rights, royalties, and accounts retained
Every distribution account is opened in the author’s own name and email. Amazon KDP. IngramSpark. Apple Books. Kobo. Google Play. The ISBN belongs to the author. The copyright belongs to the author. The royalties pay out directly from each retailer to the author’s bank account, not through AuthorWings.
This is the part hybrid publishers refuse to write into a contract. They take 30% to 50% of net royalties for the life of the work, register the ISBN to themselves, and hold the distribution accounts under company emails. AuthorWings is built on the opposite premise: the author owns everything.
—THE INDUSTRY DATA
What industry data says about book publishing services
The case for full-service book publishing services on a fee-for-service model is not an AuthorWings opinion. It sits in the data published by industry bodies that have no commercial interest in selling author services. Three sources matter most. Here is what each one documents about the state of indie publishing going into 2026.
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On Hybrid Contracts
The Authors Guild, the oldest professional organization for writers in the United States, runs a Fair Contract Initiative that advocates for contract transparency, royalty fairness, and limited-term agreements. Its guidance focuses on the contract terms most often blurred in hybrid and rights-share arrangements. Authors Guild Fair Contract Initiative
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On Indie Publishing Volume
Bowker, the official US ISBN agency, registered 4.2 million US titles in 2025, up 32.5% from 2024. Of those, 3.5 million were self-published, a 38.7% jump from the year before. Publishers Weekly reports the figures each March. Indie publishing is no longer a niche route. It is the dominant path for new books in the United States. Publishers Weekly on Bowker 2025 data
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On Industry Editing Rates
The Editorial Freelancers Association publishes a public rates chart used by professional editors across the industry. AuthorWings editing prices align with EFA-documented rates rather than the inflated prices that hybrid publishers fold into bundled contracts. The rates are public. Compare them line by line against any bundled quote. EFA rate chart
—COMPARE
How AuthorWings compares to every other publishing path
Five paths lead to a published book in 2026. Most of them quietly cost more than the price tag suggests, either in royalties signed away, rights handed over, or years spent waiting for an agent who never replies. The table below compares all five on the five dimensions that decide what an author walks away with: up-front cost, royalties kept, rights and accounts, time to launch, and odds of publishing at all.
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—Frequently Asked Questions
What authors ask before hiring a book publishing company
How much do AuthorWings book publishing services cost?
Prices are published on every service page, so you see a real number before any call. Individual services start at $199 for book design, $249 for publishing setup, $299 for editing, $899 for coaching, $1,495 for marketing, and $5,495 for ghostwriting. Full-service publishing is priced as a flat fee rather than a share of royalties. For an exact figure based on your word count, genre, and the services you need, the Book Cost Calculator returns a tier-by-tier estimate in under a minute, with no card and no email required.
Is AuthorWings a vanity press or a self-publishing service?
Neither, in the way those labels usually work. A vanity press charges a large package fee and then keeps a share of royalties, and it often registers the ISBN to itself. AuthorWings charges a flat fee for the production work, takes 0% of royalties, and registers the ISBN and every distribution account in the author's own name. The model is fee-for-service, closer to hiring an editor or a designer than signing with a press. The author keeps 100% of rights, royalties, and accounts, with no exclusivity clause and no permanent share.
Will my book be available everywhere, or locked to Amazon?
Everywhere you want to be. AuthorWings sets up wide distribution across Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Apple Books, Kobo, and Google Play, all under the author's own accounts. Nothing is locked to Amazon unless the author chooses KDP Select for a specific ebook, which trades 90 days of Kindle exclusivity for Kindle Unlimited access. Because every account is in the author's name, the author decides which retailers to sell on and can change that at any time.
Who actually owns the rights to my book after the project ends?
You do, completely. AuthorWings runs on a fee-for-service contract, which means the work is paid for like any other professional service. The copyright stays in the author's name. The ISBN is registered to the author. There is no rights-share clause, no license-back agreement, and no "subsidiary rights" the publisher quietly retains. The contract ends when the work is delivered. Hybrid publishers structure their contracts differently, often holding rights for the life of the copyright. AuthorWings does not.
Whose name is on the Amazon, IngramSpark, and Apple Books accounts?
The author's. Every distribution account is opened using the author's name, email address, and tax information. AuthorWings handles the technical setup, file uploads, metadata entry, and pricing configuration, but the account itself belongs to the author. Royalties pay out directly from each retailer to the author's bank account. If the working relationship with AuthorWings ends tomorrow, the author still owns and controls every account.
How do payment terms work for larger projects?
Payment plans scale with project size. Projects under $1,000 are paid in full at start. Projects between $1,000 and $4,999 can split 50% at start and 50% at midpoint. Projects between $5,000 and $9,999 can split into milestone payments (25% per phase) or a 3-month plan. Projects between $10,000 and $19,999 can extend to a 6-month plan. Projects of $20,000 or more can extend to a 12-month plan. Choosing a longer plan does not increase the total.
What is the difference between AuthorWings and a hybrid publisher?
A hybrid publisher charges an up-front fee and then takes a permanent share of royalties, typically 30% to 50%, often combined with a multi-year exclusivity clause and an ISBN registered to the publisher. AuthorWings charges a flat fee for the production work and takes 0% of royalties. There is no exclusivity clause. The ISBN is registered to the author. The practical test is what happens when the project ends. A hybrid contract keeps running. An AuthorWings contract closes.
Do you serve authors outside the United States?
Yes. Most AuthorWings clients outside the United States are in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, and authors in other countries are taken on case by case. Distribution coverage is the same either way: Amazon's regional KDP marketplaces, IngramSpark's global print network, Apple Books worldwide, Kobo, and Google Play. Tax setup, currency configuration, and territorial pricing are handled per the author's country of residence.
How long does a full publishing project actually take?
Production-only projects (an already-edited manuscript through cover, formatting, and distribution) run 4 to 8 weeks. Editing-plus-production projects run longer depending on edit type. Full ghostwriting-to-launch projects span several months for adult books and a shorter range for children's books. Every contract states the delivery range and a maximum delivery date in writing before work begins
What if I already have part of a manuscript or some of the production work done?
That works, and it is a common starting point. Partial manuscripts are scoped on a case-by-case basis. If 30,000 words of an 80,000-word book already exist, ghostwriting prices are adjusted accordingly. If a cover exists but the interior formatting is not finished, the project is scoped as formatting only. Bundles can be unbundled, and single services can be added.
What makes AuthorWings different from any other book publishing company?
The two promises above, plus a third, all written into every contract. Transparent prices on every page, with a public cost calculator that estimates a real number before any conversation. 100% of rights and royalties retained by the author, with all distribution accounts in the author's own name. And a flat-fee contract structure that ends when the work is delivered, with no permanent royalty share, no exclusivity clause, and no subsidiary rights claim. Most companies in the publishing services space offer one of the three. AuthorWings is built around all three at once.
Next Steps
❦Get a real price, or talk to a publishing specialist
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Last updated: August 2026