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you have reached ARTSHIPpublishing: offering Artistic and Competitive PUBLISHING SERVICES (scroll down) and BOOKS FOR DISCRIMINATING READERS:
looking for books?we have published:
"DANVERS ASYLUM" books by Michael Ramseur (see HAUNTED PALACE and The SPIRIT of ANTOINETTE, .........winner of 2 book awards in 2009! )...
A PUBLIC HEALTH ODYSSEY by Elton Kessel...
BALAZOVSKY (the art of the Russian painter) by the Balazovsky Student Group...
HERE at the EDGE of the SEA, poetry by J. S. Askew, with photographs...
THE FORGOTTEN LONGFELLOW: Man In The Shadows, by Richard Shain Cohen... and
LOVING ENEMIES: Barney and Myoko, southern Japan, 1944-46, by Arthur H. Barnes....
PLEASE CLICK HERE for BOOKS: 
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.........................................looking to publish?
as a member of  and 
...we offer BOOK Design, Editing, Publishing, Production & Marketing Services...either as a package, or on an "a la carte" basis; including plans with ARTSHIP investment for costs
 if you are a writer --
As an Independent Publisher, we can provide you with services in three basic categories:
1- we can design and format your text with images and forward the completed PDF to you and your publisher or printer, or
2- we can do the above, plus print/ produce your book, and transfer it to a distributor of your choice or ours for national resellers, or
2- we can do the above, plus offer a customized marketing package-- so that you can go back to writing, and leave the rest to us.
We offer 3 services NO other independent publisher offers:
1- We can function as a WRITING COACH, helping first-time authors to realize the full potential of their presentations in terms of characters, place, structure, plot, theme, dialog, and visual images. We can find images, create index, bibliography, end-notes etc.
2- If we believe we can successfully represent your book, we can get your book into print ...
with NO MONEY OUT OF YOUR POCKET OR ON A CO-PAY PLAN WITH ARTSHIP 
— We can handle all expenses, warehouse and market your books, print and sell them on demand, and pay you a lower percentage of sales... giving you revenues without an initial investment. OR, if you prefer to receive a higher percentage, we can SHARE the expenses AND the revenues.
- OR-- 3- if you really want to find a MAJOR publisher to produce and market your book, we will act as AGENT-locator, working from lists of known literary agents according to the genres they handle, preparing the query letters, book-samples and kits. We the give you a list with details of what was sent to these agents, so you can follow up and negotiate with the agent / publisher you select.
 Specific publishing tasks in detail:
Pre-Publish Registrations (if your book does not have an ISBN, it is not a published book, and cannot be found in book catalogs by libraries or booksellers):
..........~apply for & obtain ISBN number, Library of Congress registration #, SAN or EAN, Copyright, and BARCODE.
..........~format the book, page by page, with images and flowing text, margins, headers, page numbers, TOC, references, etc., so that the book can be PRINTED, duplicated as a CD-Rom or DVD, and/or marketed as a DOWNLOAD.
..........~simple editing and spell-checking at no cost
...........~more advanced editing-- choosing and obtaining images and relating them to text, organizing / referencing texts, enhancing / adding to your text, research quotes, locate poetry, list illustrations etc.
.........~add hyperlinks to the PDF Table of Contents so that your disk or online readers can go directly to other chapters or sections.
.........~design and print covers, CD-Rom and disk labels, and jewel-case liners with images and text.
..........~Price your book, based on similar books selling well and production and promotion formulae used in the industry.
Printing & Disk production
..........~Obtain competitive printing and Disc Duplication services in small and large quantities.
..........~Send files to printer/Production company, review proofs, Store digital files.
Distribution
.......... ~Warehouse and ship books and discs as orders come in, and Pay you monthly.
Promotion and Advertising
...........~design your book ad, download instructions, password-protection, and sales mechanism on a new page on your existing web site. OR:
........... ~design, register, maintain, edit, and provide hosting for a new web site, on which we can manage your sales for you. OR:
...........~place your book ad and ordering mechanism to our own web site using our secure server, and send you your checks.
..........~write/design/print marketing letters, reviews, brochures, Reviewer descriptions, Order Blanks, and distribution requests for either YOU OR US to send to a long list of news reviewers and other media contacts, booksellers and others.
..........~enter your book into major national conventions, book fairs and expos, submit book to film scouts, book-signing agents etc.
..........~AND, ARTSHIPpublishing is an approved vendor on AMAZON.COM and is represented on GOOGLE's BOOK SEARCH.
NOTE: we prefer to work on art, history, biography, and other academic, scientific, self-help, poetry, literary manuscripts... but we do handle fiction if it is a book we feeel is right for ARTSHIP.
We will ESTIMATE THE COST and give you a proposal. First, we need to find out about your book.
To assess whether or not we can be of help and at what cost to you... BEFORE SENDING YOUR MANUSCRIPT OR ANY PART OF IT...PLEASE EMAIL US THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
- 1. Your contact info
-2. Info about your book: TITLE, GENRE (murder mystery? Biography? Poetry? -etc.), HOW MANY CHAPTERS/ WORDS (approx.),
-3. AN OUTLINE (i.e., what happens in each chapter, in short sentences) and ONE representative CHAPTER.
-4. Status: Whether it was published before, whether it has been professionally edited or not
-5. What format it is in (WORD file, typewritten, etc.)
-6. If it has illustrations, how many in Color, how many Black & White, what format they are in
-7. What services you think you need from us.
-8. Your hopes and objectives for this book.
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 if you are a publisher --
We can format multiple-image pages for your production or printing team, and any other editing and design services you may need.
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IF YOU'VE READ ENOUGH, and would like to inquire....
Call Toll-free: 866-494-6589 or click here to 
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 Click on this link for a sample of one of our books: You can view the Ebook design, CD package, and single web page we created as a package for "Haunted Palace" by Michael Ramseur. This is a simple 1-page site; we can add pages for author bio and pictures, quotes, other books, etc.
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