Services, Client Benefits and Price Structure

          Most publishers are impressed to receive a manuscript that is clearly and professionally presented on a CD, PDF file, without errors. We offer a number of services which will combine to present and showcase your work to its best advantage and the many benefits of becoming a BPL client or website subscriber.

 

Appraisal

          This is one of our most important services. Uncertainties often haunt a writer’s mind, allowing a lack of confidence to doubt their efforts. This is sad because so much hard work and research goes into the creation of a manuscript. Passing it around to family and friends for appraisal is usually not the best solution. We are professionals who give an honest and objective opinion of your work and provide a critique. We are here to help with those frequent little niggles. We have faced the same quandaries and know the comfort and reassurance derived from a ‘chat’ about our work. Once you are happy with your manuscript, and only then, it is time to go ahead and complete the presentation.

 

£2.10p per 1000 words

 

Editing

          This is a one on one experience and ensuring in fiction the construction, characterisation, plot and denouement all work together and obvious fact faux pas are removed. Non-fiction requires the same treatment and additionally that accuracy, clarity and logical progression of ideas flow. However, whether you are writing fiction or non-fiction, the idea is to ultimately produce a convincing document which will either suspend belief or knock ‘em dead with your brilliance.

 

          In this category falls the conversion of a doctoral thesis into a marketable book. We do not teach people to write, this service is for those who have produced original research and want to tell the world outside university or college about it. A thesis is constructed in a certain way; a book, if it is to generate interest especially to a wider audience needs to depart the dry recitation of academic facts and put them into a ‘living’ context. This is where we can help you.

 

Editing fees are dependent on whether the work is fiction or non-fiction, the subject’s complexity and size of the work. It can only be undertaken after an appraisal has been made. A very rough guide is £5.20 per thousand, but it could be less or more.

 

Proofreading

          Editing is not proofreading, or vice versa. It is concerned with the technicalities of writing, spelling, grammar, punctuation, standardisation of text and presentation. An editor won’t care about any of these, their job is to foster and work on ideas, a proof reader ensures everyone else can then understand them.

 

          All manuscripts need to be proofread to correct any errors. The typographically perfect book has yet to be written, but it is the ideal we all strive for. A publisher will expect to see a document ready for publication. What is a good proof reader looking for? Nearly all writers are fairly good typists, but as the author’s mind races ahead, their fingers struggle to keep up and inevitably errors, or ‘typos’, occur. These will be spotted by our proofreaders. All corrections will be made in ‘red’ and sent back to you for approval.

 

£4.00 per 1000 words. Normally sent as an attachment to email, a CD can also be made if required. Printed out copies will be billed at cost; similarly, postage.

 

Illustrations 

          Sometimes a manuscript can be further enhanced by illustrations or diagrams within the text. These can be produced in tone, black and white and colour.

 

Quotation only. Price dependent on quantity, size and nature. A CD will be supplied to clients not using other BPL services where these would be included.

 

Bookjacket Design

          The first sight the public will have of your book is its cover. This must be enticing, or businesslike, as the case may be. Our experienced graphic designers will work with you to create an attractive and enhancing bookjacket. This could be in the form of an illustration or a computer aided graphic design or using photographs and text in a creative way. If you are short on ideas, one of our designers will come up with at least one for your approval.

 

£320.00. A CD will be supplied to clients not using other BPL services where these would be included.

 

Book Test Uploading

          This feature is unique to BPL. It enables authors to test the market for their work to gain criticism and reviews from a wide variety of people, as well as their many fellow authors who use this site. Having the book, drama or film script readily accessible online means you can direct anyone showing an interest in it whether they be publisher, agent, family or friend to the webpage and immediate access. It can save an author a great deal of money which would otherwise have been spent fruitlessly in either self-publishing or author representation to publishers. It is also useful, if a book is clearly popular, as a selling point, either for us representing you, or you representing yourself. Anyone other than a BPL client using this service can remove the book at any time they wish during the course of a year, but it cannot be re-uploaded. This is an interactive feature.

 

£80.00 per year to non-BPL clients. 15% discount for all clients who have used BPL for proofreading.

 

Representation

          BPL is not a literary agent and does not hold itself out to be so. However, we will represent clients to publishing companies to the

point of contractual agreement of sale of the manuscript. Thereafter, your own legal adviser should be engaged, if required.

 

          Representation involves us in creating an appropriate package which will tempt a publisher into buying your work. A book will only be accepted if BPL has been involved in the appraisal and proof-reading stages and then only if the company’s board and editor believe it has a realistic chance of acceptance.

 

Fees for representation are dependent on how many publishers are approached. BPL produces a ‘package’ designed to showcase your work and attract attention.

 

Websites

          Today, it’s almost a ‘given’ every author will have a website featuring elements of their work or works.  A basic website is usually all that is needed, although if the author is involved in many activities besides writing books, this is not always the case. We can design and construct websites tailored to your needs, simple or complex, and arrange website hosting.

 

By quotation only.

 

Book Reviews

          A book review is a critical examination of an author’s work. Whilst good reviews substantially help to sell books, BPL will not produce a favourable review if it isn’t merited. It will produce constructive criticism which should help the author in future. This applies, even where the author is paying for the service. However, the option to publish the review on the website accompanied by the books purchasing details remains with the author. This service is free only to books written in support of charities.

 

£ 2.10 per 1000 words plus an indexed webpage on the website

 

Authorspeak

          Any author who does publish either online through the book test download, regular publishing or self-publishing will be invited to join Authorspeak. This is a free, interactive feature for those authors who wish to gain invitations to festivals and clubs and anywhere else where they might promote their book. After dinner speakers seem to be

particularly welcome. It is open to anyone wherever they may live in the world. This is an international website.

 

          We found during the years of the old BPL website, authors although pursuing a lonely profession still have a care for their fellow man and womenkind and are a charitable lot. We opened our doors to any person who published a book in support of a charity, or visibly and actively supported any particular charity and was prepared to talk about it. We will continue to do so subject to a free book review by BPL. Previous beneficiaries of BPL's policy were charities concerned with strokes, poverty in Africa, worldwide paedophilia and domestic violence, deep sea diving fatalities and many more. This is an interactive feature and a photograph can be uploaded.

 

This is a free service for any author promoting a charitable cause, or their books who also supports charity.

 

Sell-your-book

 

          This service was originally developed to enable students to band together and sell their surplus books inexpensively. Today anyone can use it. As with every other feature on this site there is no restriction on anyone using this service in whatever country they happen to reside. This is an interactive feature, where descriptive blurb, photograph and reviews can be uploaded.

 

Annual membership is £12.00 or 200 uploads. Any number of subscriptions can be taken out.

 

Writer’s Clubs

 

          Clubs have their own webpage to list details of meetings, special interests, membership requirements and can list, free of charge, any events they may hold. After they can write an article about the occasion and upload photographs. Any dates listed automatically show in the diary and disappear after the event. Any articles submitted will be linked to the articles index and stay on the website until removed by the club. This is an interactive feature, enabling updating as required. When a club signs up, a notice of fee renewal will be sent out 14 days before it is due.

 

All clubs, £12.00 per annum.

 

Events and The Diary

          Every type of event is catered for in the menus provided. If it isn’t perhaps you will let us know. There is no restriction on any new writers’ club to BPL, person or organisation listing any event connected to the literary, media, drama or artistic field. This is another interactive feature which is available on an international basis.

 

          BPL reserves the right to arbitrarily remove any inappropriate advertising.

 

Free to subscribing Writers’ Clubs. All other organisations, £12.00 annual subscription for unlimited number of uploads. One off listings, £1.00 each.

 

Accommodation for Writers and Visitors to Events Throughout The World

          This a secondary feature of the Events Catalogue. Another interactive feature, with space to describe accommodation, route directions and upload photographs. Advertisements stay on the website for one year unless removed by the advertiser.

 

£15.00 per year.

 

BPL Vouchers

          Anyone can buy BPL Vouchers up to any value, but they must be used within one year unless the owner has a reasonable difficulty with us and lets us know. Writing isn’t an exact science and we all know delays happen. If you are buying these as a gift for someone, we can arrange to have it sent with a handcrafted card suitable for any occasion, or the details of the voucher emailed to you for use online.

 

Amount decided by purchaser.

 

Payment Details

 

Payment for.....

 

Appraisal; Typing Services; Editing; Proofreading; Illustrating; Book Jackets; Author Representation; Book Reviews; Websites

 

.....can be made by UK and USA residents by cheque or check. Payment from other countries outside UK can be made by bank transfer or draft. Pay Pal payments are accepted from everywhere within their currency remit but plus (+)10% because of their charges. Residents of UK should add 17.5% and EU residents 7% VAT (government tax); non-residents pay 0%. 

 

Payment for.....

 

Book Test Uploading

 

.....can be made by UK and USA residents by cheque or check. Payment from other countries outside UK can be made by bank transfer or draft.  Pay Pal payments are accepted from everywhere within their currency remit but plus (+)10% because of their charges. 

 

Payment for.....

 

Sell-your-book; Writers’ Clubs; Events; BPL Vouchers

 

.....can be made by UK and USA residents by cheque or check. Pay Pal payments are accepted from everywhere within their currency remit. We pick up the tab for the VAT charge on these features.  
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