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Your book, designed and published.

For Christian authors with a finished manuscript. We make every page beautiful, set your book up on Amazon, and you never touch formatting or code.

Send your manuscript for a free review

Free. We send back ideas, sample pages and your options. No cost. No obligation.

  • Interior design
  • Cover
  • Paperback
  • Ebook
  • Amazon setup
  • Author website

Chapter One

Who this is for.

This is for you if

  • You're a Christian author and your manuscript is finished, or nearly.
  • You don't want to fight Word formatting, cover software or Amazon.
  • You're a pastor, speaker or ministry leader who wants copies to sell or give away at events.

This is not for you if

  • You need someone to write the book for you.
  • You want someone to rewrite your message.

Chapter Two

What beautiful means.

These are pages from workbooks we designed for Our American Heritage by Rusty Thomas. Your book gets the same care.

  1. Chapter openers

    Every chapter starts on a designed page, so readers know they've arrived somewhere new.

  2. Pull quotes

    Your strongest lines, set large, so they stick and get shared.

  3. Scripture set apart

    Every verse styled the same way, so readers find it at a glance.

  4. Room to breathe

    Margins and spacing that make long chapters easy to read.

  5. A real cover

    Front, spine and back that look like they came from a major publisher.

These are full-color workbook pages. Your book can be black and white inside and still look this cared for.

Chapter Three

Everything. One price.

Nothing to compare. Every author gets all of it.

Your book, created and published

$2,500

to create and publish your book

  • Half to start, half when you approve the final files

Then $100 a month, starting when your book goes live.

The first 12 months are part of the deal. After that, cancel any time.

Free review

Everything included

What you get

  • A final polish after your proofreader: consistent spelling, capitals, punctuation and names. Scripture references checked. Every change shown to you first.
  • Full interior design: book size, typefaces, margins, chapter openers, subtitles, pull quotes and Scripture styling. Front pages (title, copyright, dedication, contents, endorsements) and back pages (about the author, how to get involved, notes, how to book you).
  • Cover: front, spine and back, with a few options side by side before anything is final.
  • Paperback, hardcover and ebook.
  • Set up on Amazon and through Ingram, so churches, schools, libraries and bookstores can order it too.
  • Your Amazon listing: description, keywords and categories.
  • Printed proof copies before it goes live.
  • Your own author website: your own web address in your name, a page for the book with buy links, a free sample chapter, about you, a page to book you to speak, a contact form, and bulk orders for churches and ministries.
  • Launch kit: a one-page flyer for churches, schools and ministries, and shareable images from your book's best lines.

What the $100 a month covers

  • Your website hosted, kept safe and backed up, and your web address renewed
  • Changes made for you: new speaking dates, events, photos, endorsements
  • Four shareable images from your book every month
  • A monthly email to your readers, drafted for you to approve
  • A check every three months on your Amazon page, reviews and keywords
  • Seasonal pushes: fall small-group season, spring homeschool season, Christmas
  • Help with your book, website, Amazon and email, answered within one business day
  • Member pricing on what comes next: a companion workbook, large print, audiobook
  • Book length Books up to about 60,000 words. Longer books are quoted separately.
  • Not included The companion workbook (members get a discount) and the audiobook.
  • If you leave You keep everything: your book, your files, your web address, and we hand over your website.

Referred by one of our authors? Your first 3 months are free.

Chapter Four

Copies you can afford to give away.

You order your own copies from Amazon at their printing cost. A black-and-white interior keeps that cost low, so you can sell copies at events or give them away.

$2.44black and white
120-page paperback
$8.80premium color
120-page paperback

What that means

For the price of one color copy, you get more than three in black and white.

Amazon's printing cost per copy, US marketplace, before shipping and tax. Source: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201834340

Chapter Five

How it works.

  1. Today

    Send your manuscript.

    The Word file you wrote it in.

  2. Free

    Get your review.

    We send ideas, sample pages and your options. No cost, no obligation.

  3. You decide

    Pick the direction.

    You approve the direction and pay half of the $2,500 to start.

  4. We design

    Approve every page.

    We design everything. You approve every page and the cover.

  5. Go live

    Your book is out.

    Pay the other half when you approve the final files. Your book goes live, you order your copies, and the $100 a month starts.

Chapter Six

The next step: a workbook.

Once your book is out, we can turn it into a full-color workbook for small groups, churches and homeschool families. No extra writing for you.

See the workbooks

Chapter Seven

Straight answers.

Who owns it?

You do. Your words, the rights, the finished files, your Amazon account and your web address.

Do I need to know Amazon or websites?

No. We set it up and walk you through it.

What does the website cost after it's built?

Nothing extra. Hosting and your web address renewal are covered by the $100 a month, and the address is registered in your name.

Why $100 a month?

A publisher drops a book after launch. We keep working on it with you every month: website, updates, emails to your readers, images, seasonal pushes and help whenever you need it.

What happens after the first year?

It goes month to month. Cancel any time and keep everything.

Will you change my message?

No. Every change is shown to you first, and you have the final say.

Do you use AI?

For illustrations, yes. We research every scene first, create the picture with AI, and a person checks it against your text. Nothing goes in your book until a person approves it. When you publish, Amazon asks you to disclose AI-generated images. We'll tell you exactly how to answer.

What if Amazon rejects a file?

If Amazon rejects a file for a technical reason, we fix it free until it's approved.

The last page

Send your manuscript. Free review.

Here's what happens next. Fill out a short form and send your manuscript. We send back ideas, sample pages and your options. If you like what you see, we'll talk about getting started. If you don't, there's no cost and no obligation.

P.S. Once your book is out, it can become a full-color workbook too. Ask us about it in the review.

Free Manuscript Review

Free. We send back ideas, sample pages and your options.

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Finished workbook, Book One page 16: the three branches of government
Our American Heritage, Book One, page 16

A real example

One page. Three questions. Rusty decided.

We flagged three things on this page. Nothing changed until Rusty said yes.

  1. A fact

    He wrote“There are 437 House members that make up our Congress.”

    We askedThe House has 435 voting members. Change it?

    Now reads“There are 435 House members that make up the House of Representatives.”

  2. A wording question

    He wrote“The Legislative Branch consists of a Congress and Senate.”

    We askedCongress is the House and the Senate together. Reword it?

    Now reads“The Legislative Branch is Congress, which has two parts: the House of Representatives and the Senate.”

  3. Scripture

    He wrote“For the Lord is our Judge, The Lord is our Lawgiver…” (Isaiah 33:22)

    We askedThe NKJV prints LORD in capitals, like every other verse in the book. Match it?

    Now reads“For the LORD is our Judge, The LORD is our Lawgiver…”

Every other word on the page is exactly as he wrote it.