Professional book production for people who’d rather write than wrestle: typeset interiors, real covers, Kindle editions, and an Amazon upload kit with every question pre-answered. Built by a purpose-built production machine, checked by people who love books, delivered — most of it — within 24 hours.
The Shipwright’s Daughter — built here, published on Amazon.
You keep 100% of your royalties. You keep 100% of your rights. You keep your own Amazon account.
A traditional publisher takes your rights and most of your money. A vanity press takes your fees and your account. We take a one-time fee and hand you a finished book — that’s the entire arrangement, and it fits right here on the front page.
The machine’s acceptance tests are real published books. Perennial — the house’s first, live on Amazon. The Shipwright’s Daughter — a 138-page illustrated novel, manuscript to published paperback and Kindle in one night, through the same front door you’re looking at. We don’t ship a service we haven’t used to publish.
The Shipwright’s Daughter — cover, generated and measured by the press.
A typeset spread — running heads, page numbers, chapters that open like chapters.
Perennial — the house’s first published cover.
An engraved plate — placed, captioned, print-validated.
A table of contents that built itself.
A spread from Perennial’s interior — the first book off this press.
One form in plain English→the machine builds and validates against Amazon’s exact specs→a person checks what people should check→your files arrive with instructions so clear that Amazon becomes the easy part→you publish, you own everything.
The long version →Whether your book needs one, what Bowker is, and why journals usually skip it. Two-minute read.
Read →The name on the spine, what it says about your book, and how to publish under your own. Two-minute read.
Read →The whole journey, hour by hour — from the moment your card clears to your book live on Amazon.
Read →Somewhere in a drawer, or a folder named FINAL_final_v3, there’s a book only you could have written. It deserves better than the drawer.
Start your bookQuestions first? books@prontopublishing.com — a person reads every message.