Self-publish your children’s book with support from our experienced team.
Publishing a children’s picture book can be an exciting endeavour. However, it can also be a daunting one.
Bring your idea and/or manuscript to us, plus your illustrations if you have them, and we can bring your book to life.
No illustrations yet? We can put you in touch with a range of talented artists.
The Benefits of Self Publishing With Us
We Manage The Entire Process – Making Publishing Easy
You Remain In Control & Retain the Rights To your Work
You Keep Your Book Sale Profits (Not Us!)
You Get Superior Results In Comparison to Going it Alone
We Give Extra Marketing Support
Our Publishing Process
Editing & Proofing
Even the best manuscript requires editing and proofreading.
Our team will expertly work their magic to ensure your finished book sparkles – and is free from errors.
To make sure you end up with a quality end product.
Cover Design & Internal Layout
Your cover design is what will help your book to jump off the shelves and into peoples shopping baskets.
Your internal layout (or typesetting) ensures a solid reader experience.
Get both done correctly and beautifully, with our professional team.
File Production for both Print & eBook Formats
Producing your end files can be a tricky business.
Our team can take the hassle out of file production, to make sure your book is uploaded smoothly, for both perfect prints and effortless eBooks.
Warning – It’s costly to get this part wrong!
Global Distribution for both Print & eBook Formats
This is where things get exciting. Our team will upload your print and eBook files to make it available to bookstores and online retailers, such as Amazon.
You’ll soon see your finished book filtering out and appearing on Booktopia, Barnes & Noble and more!
Print on Demand
Ready to print your first physical copies?
We will be! Our team can organise orders on your behalf, or teach you how to print as many copies as you like, when you like.
You’ll be holding them in your excited little hands, in no time.
Launch & Marketing
The final piece to the puzzle! We can help you put together a dazzling launch plan to get those sales flying in – so your copies can go flying out.
And yes, we can help with marketing your eBooks too.
Our Packages
Manuscript Development
Add this if you need help with editing and developing your manuscript.- Storyline and concept development
- Structural editing
- Copy editing
Children's Book Package
Our children's book base package - choose any add-ons that you need.- ISBN x2 (Print + eBook)
- Barcode
- Basic Proofreading
- eBook Production
- Global Distribution
- Print on Demand Setup
- Publishing to Amazon
- National Library Deposit
- One-Page Author Website
Design (Cover + Internals)
Add this if you need us to design your pages (bring us the words and illustrations).- Custom design and layout of all internal pages for picture books
- Custom cover design
- Upto 5 revisions
Important Notes:
– Payment plans are available. Please email us to discuss.
– We assess all children’s book manuscripts and will advise whether you need manuscript development or not.
– Illustrations are not provided or included as part of the above packages. We can put you in touch with suitable illustrators if needed.
FREE BONUS: Author Websites
For authors who self publish with us – you have the option of having a one-page author or sales page website built for you – for FREE.
These are based on a standard template, built on WordPress, using an easy page builder, that we teach you to manage and update yourself.
We’ll also throw in the first 12 months of domain name registration and web hosting.
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F.A.Q.
Are there payment plans?
Yes, we can certainly offer payment plans, particularly for the larger packages.
We can split payments into two, three or even over 6 months or more.
Just email us to ask at hello@theruralpublishingcompany.com.au.
Do you take all authors and all works?
Not really! We still hand select authors and their manuscripts based on quality and what we believe has merit and will sell well.
We won’t publish anything derogratory or in poor taste – that’s for sure!
Our team assess manuscripts thoroughly before a publishing contract is offered.
Is there any marketing support?
Yes! As we also own The Rural Marketing Company – our team is well equipped to support you with marketing.
Included in most packages is:
- Launch and marketing guidance
- Promotion across our social media channels – including a video interview on YouTube (which you can repurpose for your own uses).
- Promotion in our digital magazine.
- An article in our local newspaper (to start off your PR efforts).
You can also add on extra done-for-you marketing services too.
Why do you charge authors - rather than pay authors?
We are an assisted self publisher. Which means our team help you to turn your manuscript into a finished, printed book and eBook.
We are NOT a traditional publisher.
Traditional publishers do indeed pay authors when they sign up an author. However, this is simply an upfront advance of your book sale royalties.
Traditional publishers also then OWN the rights to your work (so they control how it looks and reads) – and you only get a small percentage of your book sale profits.
Plus – it’s near impossible for new authors to get a traditional publishing contract, unless you have a huge audience and a literary agent.
With us, anyone with a quality manuscript can get published. Yes, you pay us to produce your book. We have a team of specialists who can get all the hard work done for you, with design, distribution, etc.
However, you retain the rights to your own work (you have final say over everything) AND you keep ALL of your book sale profits.
We do not take or keep any book sale commissions or charge any ongoing costs.
Will you get my book into bookstores?
Yes, and no.
We offer global distribution, which means we make your book available to bookstores globally.
This does not necessarily mean that every bookstore in the world will instantly choose to stock it however.
Yes, your book will feed out to Amazon, Booktopia, Barnes & Noble online and many other online services.
We can also provide guidance on further distribution and marketing avenues.
However, most newer authors will need to be prepared to do a lot of ‘leg work’ when it comes to marketing and getting your book stocked in stores.
Do I retain the rights to my own work?
Yes you do! Unlike a traditional publisher who essentially buys the rights to your work – meaning THEY have control over how it is published and what happens to it – with us as a hybrid publisher – YOU keep your rights and stay in full control.
Which also means, you get ALL of your book sale profits too!
The only thing our contracts stripulate is that we reserve the publishing rights for the first 12 months after publication.
How do I sell my finished book?
When publishing with us, we make your book available to bookstores globally, plus online services such as Amazon, Booktopia and Barnes & Noble online.
You can choose to only sell via these platforms OR you can also sell copies via your own website and social media.
We can assist with setting you up for success with all of this.
Just ask us how!
Do you produce audiobook versions of books too?
We can, with some limitations. If you’re wanting to read and record your own audiobook – you can hand us the audio files, and we can help you publish it alongside your print and eBook versions (for the Total Publish package only).
However! If you’re not comfortable reading and recording your own book – you are able to find a professional who can do this for you.
The trouble is, for a full length novel or non-fiction book, this can be incredibly expensive. It’s not something our team can offer at the moment – but we may do in future.
Feel free to get in touch with us for further assistance here.
What if I have several manuscripts or a series?
Get in touch with the team at hello@theruralpublishingcompany.com.au.
We can package up multiple manuscripts or a series into a more cost effective package.
Payment plans are available too.
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