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Self-Publishing Book Services
You have written your book. Now what?
The Tabby House experts can turn that manuscript into a finished book, and do to it right. |
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Our services include:
Manuscript evaluation
Marketing consultation before you go to press
Editing
Rewrites
Proofreading
Page design and typesetting
Indexing
Help with pricing
Scanning of photographs and illustrations
Four-color cover design to suit your book
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What makes Tabby House different than other book-packagers?
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After our analysis of your project and consultation with you, we give a Free Estimate, which is then finalized in a contract. There are no hidden hourly costs for services. We do not try to sell you on more copies than you need or want. We urge you to do your book right and follow professional set-up and style. We are honest about the realities of today's publishing market. We are the no-nonsense book-packager. Most importantly, your book does not go to press until you are 100 percent satisfied with the cover, the editing and the set-up. |
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Free Estimate is finalized into contract
No hidden hourly costs of services
No-nonsense discussions; no false promises
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We'll urge you to do your book right, but ultimately you make the decisions.
The book does not go to press until you are 100 percent satisfied with cover, editing, and set-up. You sign off on the project.
Tabby House, established in 1990, has hundreds of satisfied (many repeat) customers. Read comments (link). See their books.
Read our award-winning book: Smart Self-Publishing: An author's guide to producing a marketable book. It has guided thousands of author/publishers through the self-publishing process.
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Books and Comments From Our Clients
Title: The Wild Women of Lake Anna: A Bailey Fish AdventureAuthor: Linda Salisbury, with drawings by Christopher Grotke
$7.95 160 pages |
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ForeWord magazine calls this "a well-crafted, fast-paced novel" in
keeping with latest fiction trend to educated and entertain.
Bailey Fish ,11, is unexpectedly sent from Florida to live with her
grandmother, Sugar, in Central Virginia. She is taunted by a
neighborhood bully, whose father is out to get Sugar, a civic-minded
environmentalist. Sugar is investigating the deliberate source of
pollution in Contrary Creek. Bailey is challenged by her teacher to
help the bully's little sister with reading. She takes courage and
inspiration from stories about the family's adventurous wild women
(including Mae, a WWI spy), and wants to be one herself as she tries
to find acceptance and have an adventure of her own as she looks for
gold.
Review (Click Here)
Bailey Fish Adventures
The Bailey Fish Adventures series is for ages 8-12. The first, "The Wild Women of Lake Anna," was described as a "stimulating mystery" by ForeWord magazine. The second, No Sisters Sisters Club is now available. Each features Bailey Fish, 11, sent by her traveling mother to live with her grandmother, Sugar (one of the wild women). Each is a fast-paced adventure/mystery with contemporary problems, history, and environmental issues, Book club questions and Web sites. Go to Bailey Fish Adventures Blog website (Click Here)
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Title: The Thief at Keswick InnAuthor: Linda Salisbury |
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Bailey Fish,
eleven, is happy when the Keswick family plans to move into a once-elegant
country home near where she and her grandmother, Sugar, live at Lake Anna. The
adopted, homeschooled brothers, Noah and Fred Keswick, are about Bailey's age
and fun to be with. Bailey and Justin Rudd, a neighborhood boy with a reputation
of being a bully, are hired to help the Keswicks with cleaning and repairs. The
kids are excited to discover valuable and historic items among the trash inside
the old house, which has been renamed Keswick Inn. Then, one by one, these
treasures disappear. Justin's unusual behavior makes him the main suspect as
detectives Noah, Fred, and Bailey try to solve the mystery.
The embedded history involves learning about Native Americans in
Virginia.
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Title: The Mysterious Jamestown Suitcase: A Bailey Fish AdventureAuthor: Linda Salisbury |
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Bailey Fish, 11, lives with her grandmother, Sugar, near an old house that is being fixed up into a bed-and-breakfast by the Keswick family. Before it is officially open, Keswick Inn's first guests arrive. They are children's author Elmo Phigg and his wife, Feather. Among the Phiggs' possessions is a mysterious green suitcase that contains Jamestown secrets. The Phiggs, who are evacuees from hurricanes, are looking for a place to stay while Elmo Phigg works on his book about Jamestown. Soon a young foster child, Sparrow, arrives. Sparrow must stay in a wheelchair until her hips heal. Upset by the wheelchair and her move to a new foster home, Sparrow refuses to speak to anyone. Meanwhile, Bailey and her friends, Noah and Fred Keswick, try to learn find out what is inside the suitcase by devious means. They also plan First Laugh Party in the Navajo tradition, to make Sparrow laugh or talk. Then, a mysterious stranger shows up to claim the suitcase. Will Sparrow ever speak? And what is in the mysterious suitcase?
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by Linda & Jim Salisbury
Tabby House
Smart Self-Publishing will tell you:
How self-publishing can be satisfying and successful.
Why you must determine your market, and then go after it.
Why a professional cover is essential.
The importance of doing the book right.
How new technologies can make your project more affordable.
How to write a press release, do a booksigning or be interviewed.
The truth about how book buyers select titles.
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