Happenstance builds partnerships not platforms. We’ve been to the same trade shows. We’ve sat through the same presentations promising publishing panaceas. But their proprietary systems are too expensive, inflexible, and overwrought to meet your specific needs. You already own all the technology you need. We show you how to optimize what you already do to get where you need to go. You’ve got soup. We’ve got nuts. Click the Workflow Solutions to read more

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. Click Design to read more

Composition is the name of the game. Our agents follow your design specs 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. Click COMPOSITION to read more

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.

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. Click Digital and eBook Conversion to read more

All beautiful books start with beautiful manuscripts. Send your copy on a spa day and work the shabby out of that shabby chic manuscript. Our editorial team, fluent in Chicago, MLA, APA, and AP, has experience developing, copyediting and proofing a wide variety of genres including technical, poetry, cookbooks, trade, architecture, fiction, educational, how-to, scientific and more.

It’s a dirty, miserable, thankless job, but some of us love it. We carefully proof every word, every comma, and every line space to ensure accuracy and consistency from cover to cover.

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.

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.

We create clean, easy-to-use, authoring templates to tame even the most complicated or rangy manuscripts. We use Word, Openoffice, Docbook, or any other authoring tool you are comfortable with. If you already have a template, we can style, tag, or code the document for you.

Whether technical or whimsical, artistic or plain, Cubist abstraction or dogs playing poker, our artists have the chops to create or manipulate the images you need. If you can imagine it, we can make it or find it. We can batch your blotches and curve your levels. CMYK to RGB, TIFF to PNG to EPS, your files will ready for the press or the screen.

It may be the last thing you do, but it certainly isn’t the least important. Sure, no one has ever complimented your perfect index, but you still get emails about that bad one. Our meticulous agents 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.

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. Click Project Management to read more

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