Your book. Professionally published. Fully yours.

You have a manuscript, or an idea that should become one. You want it published well, marketed honestly, and owned completely. Paperbacks & Pixels handles everything from production to launch so you can stay focused on your work.

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Publishing a book should not feel like this.


The DIY trap

You have spent months writing. Now you are expected to become your own typesetter, cover designer, distributor, and marketing department, all at once.

Giving up control to get help

Most publishing paths ask you to trade ownership for convenience. You should not have to choose between getting help and keeping your rights.

A beautiful book nobody reads

You publish, the launch week passes, and then: silence. Without a real marketing strategy, even a great book disappears.

Looking self-published

Bad formatting, a weak cover, or missing distribution metadata signals "amateur" before anyone reads a word. You deserve better than that.

Who this is for

Subject matter experts and creative writers who are serious about their books and their careers.


Physicians, attorneys, therapists

You want a book that extends your practice and establishes your expertise beyond your existing patient or client base.

Executives and consultants

You are using a book to position yourself, win speaking invitations, and open doors your title alone does not.

Coaches, educators, thought leaders

You are building an audience, a course, a speaking career, and a direct relationship with readers. A book anchors all of it.

Creative writers and memoirists

You want professional production and distribution without surrendering ownership or waiting years for a traditional deal.

Already-published authors

You published a book independently but never built the marketing infrastructure around it—no email list, no direct sales channel, no reader relationship.

Children's book and illustrated nonfiction authors

You are navigating retail, institutional, and gift market channels and need a team that understands the differences.

How it works

Three steps, no runaround.


1

Tell us about your book

Start with a Navigator—a strategy engagement that ends in a written plan. We figure out where you are and what your book needs.

2

We handle production & strategy

Everything a professionally published book requires: design, formatting, distribution, metadata, launch plan. You approve at every milestone.

3

You publish with full ownership

The rights, the imprint, and the margin are all yours. You leave with a published book, a marketing strategy you understand, and a direct relationship with your readers.

Three doors. Pick the one that fits where you are.


Services

Done-for-you book publishing and marketing.

Navigator, Foundation, Signature, Custom Project, and the add-ons that go with them. For authors and publishing pros who want a team running the project.

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The Authors Platform Studio

A six-week quarterly cohort. Summer Quarter open.

New lessons and AI tools posted weekly, live group coaching and accountability calls throughout, plus an ongoing community. $1,497 to join. Cohort delivered in PaperbackU.

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The Library

Free tools, downloads, and writing.

Voice profiles, comp finders, launch playbooks, the Book Description Autopsy, and posts on building a real author platform.

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Work with authors? Let's talk.

We partner with editors, book coaches, ghostwriters, and small publishers who want to give their clients a clear next step after the writing is done.

We also build tools for people like you. Concierge Core is our publishing project management platform, built to handle the chaos of managing multiple author projects without the spreadsheet gymnastics.

Your book amplifies what you already have.

You arrive with a reputation, a practice, an audience, and relationships. The book is a tool that puts all of it to work.

That is why every engagement includes a marketing approach built around what you already have (your audience, your network, your readers) instead of a generic launch checklist.


Two things that never change

You leave knowing how your marketing works.

A published book with no marketing strategy is an expensive business card. Every client ends the engagement with a clear understanding of their marketing strategy, their distribution setup, and what to manage going forward.

You keep full ownership. Always.

Every client publishes under the imprint of their choosing: ours, a partner's, or one built for you. You control the rights, the timeline, and the margin.

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The Author's Publishing Roadmap

A step-by-step overview from manuscript to published, positioned, selling book, so you know what to expect before you spend a dollar.

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Julie Trelstad, founder of Paperbacks & Pixels

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