Project assessment
Genre, stage, word count, goals, audience, timeline, budget, rights, and known complications.
How it works
No mystique.
Just decisions.
A disciplined publishing process removes uncertainty in the right order, documents approvals, and protects the book from preventable chaos.
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What is the manuscript trying to become?
ASSESS → SHAPE → PRODUCE → POSITIONAPPROVEDRecommendation and scope
Deliverables, responsibilities, exclusions, revision limits, pricing, payment schedule, and approval points.
Editorial development
The manuscript is strengthened at the structural, developmental, sentence, or proof level it actually needs.
Design and production
Cover, interior, print files, ebook files, metadata, retailer copy, and controlled review cycles.
Quality control
Proofs, files, links, settings, metadata, specifications, and account ownership are checked before release.
Platform and launch
Website, sales path, launch sequence, reader communication, distribution, and measurement plan.
Closeout
Organized files, credentials, documentation, ownership, support boundaries, and next steps.
Built in Plymouth
Every passage needs a chart.
Our process is deliberately mapped, with clear decisions, handoffs, and approval gates. Romance is welcome. Preventable confusion is not.
The handoff
The author leaves with a book and a system.
Final delivery is not a mysterious folder named FINAL-FINAL-USE-THIS-ONE. It is an organized transfer of files, control, documentation, and next steps.
FILESPrint · ebook · web
ACCOUNTSAuthor controlled
DOCUMENTATIONSettings · rights · next steps
DELIVERED
Client responsibilities
The process is collaborative. The calendar also has opinions.
AUTHOR
Timely materials, honest feedback, approvals, payments, rights confirmation, and final decisions.
PRESS
Clear scope, professional execution, organized communication, documented decisions, and quality control.
SHARED
Realistic timelines, respectful communication, decisive review rounds, and no surprise reinvention during final proof.
Start with the project assessment.
Before scope, price, or production, we determine what the book needs and whether Sentinel House Press is the right partner.