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Advocate House

We take the headaches out
of self-publishing


You write the manuscript:
        we’ll turn it into a book and get the word out

We offer you complete control over every aspect of the publishing process and work with you to produce your book in the formats right for you:  paperback, hardcover,  electronic (e-book) and Print on Demand (POD).

Services available:
       One-stop shopping capabilities include:
                                           Printing/binding; Fulfillment; Web Sales; Composition; E-publishing.

 

Book Preparation

Editing (copy editing and line editing)

Research and Fact Checking

Indexing

Book doctoring and re-writing

Illustrations

Cover and interior design

Processing of: copyright, ISBN, Bar Code,
                      Library of Congress number

 

Publishing

Printing: hardcover and trade paperback: conventional or on-demand printing

Electronic formatting and placement on the web

CD-ROM conversion

Creating your own imprint

 

Marketing

Presentation to major book distributors

Book Reviews: preparation and placement

News Releases: created to announce your book

All our books are distributed to libraries and book stores by Ingram (the worlds' largest book distributor) and  by Baker & Taylor.  All our books appear on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble online, and on many other online retailers.

We publish two catalogs a year and we promote our books by arranging book signings, talk show appearances for authors, book reviews, magazine article placements, and with paid marketing comunications efforts.

 

Initial phone consultation free. 

Thereafter consulting will be billed at $75 per hour.  This fee will be included in the overall cost of the project once a contract is signed.
 

 

Famous authors who self-published:

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Peter Rabbit

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Apes

Others who self-published some of their work:

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Washington Irving, William Blake

Mark Twain, T.S. Elliot, Lord Byron, Carl Sandburg, Zane Grey

Best-seller Modern authors who self-published:

James Redfield - The Celestine Prophecy (self-published 1st printing and sold it to New Age stores.)

Richard Paul Evans - The Christmas Box

John Grisham - A Time to Kill (sold books himself from the trunk of his car.)

From Self-published books to movies:

Legally Blonde, became a successful movie starring Reese Witherspoon

A Long March to Freedom, a book about Third World kidnapping, became the Russell Crowe movie, "Proof of Life."

Christopher Paolini's self-published fantasy book Eragon was picked up by a major publisher and made into a movie.


The benefits of self-publishing

For further information: FAQs

For details e-mail: advohouse@aol.com                           
Phone: 941-351-2050              
fax:
941-351-4735

Look at the Advocate House books:
 
         
Click here for Low Resolution 2007 catalog (1 meg. file) (In Acrobat PDF format)

Click here for High Resolution 2007 catalog (20+ meg. file) (In Acrobat PDF format)

 


What others are saying about Advocate House:

"Advocate House gave me the best price I could have asked for publishing my book, I Remember the Yorktown.  The book was well done.  Everthing I asked to be in my book Patrika made sure was there.   Delivery of the book was as promised. I couldn't have asked for anything better."
-Gene Domienik, Author:  I Remember the Yorktown

As a full-time writer, I'm for "old fashioned" self-publishing all the way. I recommend it for any writer who wants to increase their opportunity to make money and maintain creative control. Self-publishing is also a good way for writers to learn about the publishing business overall. And I see no degradation to any author who chooses this route. In fact, writers who do all of the work themselves and sell their books are very well respected. Kudos to Ms. Vaughn for inspiring writers to see self-publishing as a viable, lucrative alternative. She proves there is light in the writing tunnel.
-Sonya Carmichael Jones


As a first time writer of a novel I had no idea of how to get my manuscript published or any concept of the ordeal that faces most first time writers.  My association with Advocate House helped me immensely in understanding the process and options that were available to me.  Advocate House made it "simple" in dealing with all the complicated issues with publishing.  I would recommend Advocate House to any writer looking for order in the confusing publishing world. 
-Stephen Beeler, Author: The Firestone Syndrome

 
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