Publishing
What a book needs after the manuscript is finished
A finished manuscript is the middle of the job. Editing, typography, the cover, paper and binding, metadata and a proof copy all stand between you and…
Executive: for leaders, faith leaders and organisations
Your decades of leadership are evaporating into boardroom air.
Every day, hard-won judgement and frameworks that took years to build are spoken in meetings, typed into emails and forgotten. You keep telling yourself you will write a book someday. Someday is where legacies go to die.
If it is not written down, it cannot be passed on.
The cost of silence
Look at what is happening to your experience right now.
The boardroom black hole.
You solve complex problems, steer organisations through chaos and build new models. Then the meeting ends, and so does the record of how you did it.
Others hold the pen.
While you are busy doing the work, people with less experience are publishing, shaping the conversation and setting the narrative. They are not better. They wrote it down first.
The next generation pays.
If what you know leaves with you, the leaders coming after you repeat the mistakes you already paid for. They deserve the blueprint, and only you can give it.
You are waiting for a free weekend that is never going to come. Your legacy is leaking away in the meantime.
A book is not marketing
Most leaders file a book under marketing. That is the mistake.
A campaign is launched, tracked for a week and forgotten. A book stays.
Campaigns
Get spent.
They run for a season, then they are archived.
A book
Is permanent infrastructure.
It gives your authority a fixed address. Institutions, partners and the next generation have something to engage with, quote and hand on. It stops being a promotional tool and becomes your public record.
The zero-time trap
"I run an organisation. I do not have six months to stare at a blank page."
Good. You should not be at a desk drafting. You should be leading. So we do the writing.
We carry the load.
We interview you, or you answer our questions by voice note when it suits your diary. We find the book in what you say, and we do the structure, the writing, the editing, the cover, the design, the printing and the publishing.
It sounds like you.
If it does not, we rewrite it until it does. No argument and no extra charge.
You own all of it.
100% of the rights, and 100% of the income from every sale. Wherever you start, whether with a finished manuscript, a draft, sermons, notes or a single idea, we finish it.
Faith leaders: your teaching, in a book your congregation can keep. Institutions: your story and your publications, to international standard.
Wherever you start
Three routes to a finished book.
You've written it.
You bring a finished manuscript. We edit, design, print and publish it to international standard.
You've started it.
You bring a draft, sermons, notes, or answers to our questions. We shape it into a book in your voice.
You haven't written a word.
You bring the expertise or the story. We interview you, or find the book in you, and do everything.
Books for organisations
Histories, anniversary and jubilee books, and impact books for companies, churches, schools and NGOs marking a milestone.
Writing for your family rather than your field? See the Legacy Book.
Start here
Not ready to commit? Start with a Book Blueprint.
Two sessions and a chapter plan, credited in full if you go ahead. A short book or a full-length one.
Credited in full if you commission the book within 60 days.
From the blog
Notes on writing and publishing your book.
Writing your book
How to turn sermons, talks and notes into a book
A body of teaching is not yet a book. Here is a practical way to find the thread, group the material, and write for a reader…
Writing your book
Four questions to answer before you write a word of your book
Most unfinished books stall because the plan was never clear. Answer these four questions first and the writing gets much easier.
The final choice
You can stay a brilliant secret, or put your thinking in a book that outlives the meeting.
What you recorded decides what outlasts you. Put it on paper.
The Voice Promise: if it does not sound like you, we rewrite it until it does.