Book design is a learned skill that requires a creative vision coupled with a thorough knowledge of design principles and the printing process. Our agents apply innovative and elegant ideas in a practical way so that the finished book is not only of impeccable quality, but your printer will still talk to you.

When composition is the name of the game, our agents follow your design specs (or ours) to create balanced, easy-to-read pages without a single unsightly stack, pitiful orphan, or sad and lonely widow to be found. From bibles to biographies, tech manuals to text books, and cookbooks to poetry, we blend graphics, typography, and design into a union more harmonious than gin, vermouth, and an olive.

Whether technical or whimsical, artistic or plain, Cubist abstraction or dogs playing poker, our artists have the chops to create the images you need through traditional or electronic media. If you can imagine it, we can create it.

Paper is slick, but electrons are quick! When you need to deliver your books in digital form, our agents will make sure they look great, perform the functions your customers expect, and feature ironclad protection against piracy. We can convert any text into versatile, navigable electronic books for any platform.

Whether you need a new authoring template or production template, we can create a clean, easy-to-use template in Word, a matching production template in InDesign (or just about any other layout or editing program you can dream of), and the CSS to finish the whole thing off. Even the most complicated or rangy manuscript can be tamed with our templates.

William Morris could have picked up a few pointers from us. Our graphic design experts meld text and graphics to create the perfect visual interpretation of the message you want to convey to your customers. We design it all— book covers, brochures, letterhead stationery, advertisements, logos, catalogs, business cards, promotional pieces, bathroom tissue, and breath mints.

Need an elaborate photo shoot or just a couple of product shots? No problem! We can dispatch our expert photographers to capture your soul or show off your products to best advantage.

Too many projects and too little time? Hand off your publishing jobs to us and we’ll manage them from beginning to end. Our skilled managers are well versed in all aspects of publishing and excel at finding the right agent for the right job, right now. With one keen eye on the budget and the other focused firmly on the schedule, we never lose sight of your priorities.

Turning over a project to an intermediary has never been so worry free. Our highly motivated agents operate indepedently while maintaining constant, open communications with clients. We help bring the author’s vision to fruition without compromising the publisher’s practical economic considerations.

Whether a manuscript is afflicted with technical errors or wheezing from organizational blunders, our agents are fully trained in CPR for damaged collateral. No matter how complicated the subject, the explanation should be clear, concise, and to the point. If you don’t understand it, chances are no one else will either! Our powerful, analytical beams will zap that turgid mass into publishable form in no time.

Working with the “highlight changes” box turned on, our dedicated team of experienced professionals read line by line, ensuring correct spelling, grammar, syntax, and punctuation consistently throughout the work. Then, if you wish, we turn it back to you to review and approve the results

Too many projects and too little time? Hand off your publishing jobs to us and we’ll manage them from beginning to end. Our skilled managers are well versed in all aspects of publishing and excel at finding the right agent for the right job, right now. With one keen eye on the budget and the other focused firmly on the schedule, we never lose sight of your priorities.

It may be the last thing you do, but it certainly isn’t the least important. A bad index can destroy a book! Don’t trust some electronic indexing program. Hire our meticulous agents to swiftly search, verify, and sort useful indexes into essential components of your books. No book is too big or too complicated for us to index thoroughly, accurately, and right on time.

Do you have an InDesign file that needs to become a clean Word file? Do you have a production file that needs to become HTML? Do you get nervous when someone starts speaking in XML? Never fear! We can magically transform files from one format to another faster than you can say Type-O-Rama!

Shouldn’t your products, your web site, and your marketing materials all have the same look and feel? Shouldn’t they all convey the same message about who you are? Our team of experts can help you establish and maintain a consistent identity and branding across all media. Our agents are licensed to kill bad design. Your potential customers will be stirred, not shaken, by your image!