Publishing Packages

Dragonpencil offers several publishing packages to fit your needs.

Click on the links below for more details about each one.

Picture Book Package

This package is for high-quality, hardcover picture books of 24 or 32 pages. Full editing, project management and book design is included as well as PCIP data & application for copyright. We will even issue an ISBN with bar code for your book if you choose. Plus you’ll get a discount on Illustration, Printing, Website Design and Read-Along CDs. And as an added bonus, we’ll send you Peter Bowerman’s book the Well-Fed Self-Publisher & his Biz-in-a-Box CD (a $40 value).

All for only $1495.00

Click here for more details about the Picture Book Package.

Picture Book Package
for Longer Stories
of up to 4000 words

This package is for high-quality, hardcover picture books of 24 or 32 pages with stories of 1701-4000 words. Some stories take longer to tell, so we designed this picture book package for longer stories. Full editing, project management and book design is included as well as PCIP data & application for copyright. We will even issue an ISBN with bar code for your book if you choose. Plus you’ll get a discount on Illustration, Printing, Website Design and Read-Along CDs. And as an added bonus, we’ll send you Peter Bowerman’s book the Well-Fed Self-Publisher & his Biz-in-a-Box CD (a $40 value).

All for only $1995.00

Click here for more details about the Picture Book Package for Longer Stories.

Young Adult Novel Package

This package is for high-quality Young Adult Novels or 'Young Readers'. These can be soft or hard cover books. This is the correct package for stories between 15,000 and 50,000 words. Full editing, project management and book design is included as well as PCIP data & application for copyright. We will even issue an ISBN with bar code for your book if you choose. Plus you’ll get a discount on Illustration, Printing and Website Design. And as an added bonus, we’ll send you Peter Bowerman’s book the Well-Fed Self-Publisher & his Biz-in-a-Box CD (a $40 value). All for only $2995.00 Click here for more details about the Young Adult Novel Package.

All for only $2995.00

Click here for more details about the Young Adult Novel Package.

Economy Picture Book Package

This super economical package is for high-quality, digitally printed, hardcover picture books of either 24 or 32 pages. This is not the correct package for books over 32 pages or stories over 1700 words. Only the essentials are included so that you can publish your book without spending much money. This package allows you to grow your success as an author without a large upfront investment. Full editing, project management and book design is included as well as full illustration and printing the first 50 books!

All for only $3295.00 for a 24-page book

or $3995.00 for a 32-page book.

Click here for more details about the Economy Picture Book Package.

What do I have to pay for besides the package?
Unless you choose the all-inclusive Economy Package, you will pay for the first and second halves of the illustration work and then the printing of your books. If you get Add-ons like a website and/or read-along CD, those are also separate expenses.

How long is this whole thing going to take?
We can only provide an average because every book is different. An average picture book’s illustration will take 2-3 months, book design will take 3 weeks, and printing will take 6-7 weeks. So you can roughly anticipate the whole process to take about 5 months (give or take a month or 2).

Will you put my book on Amazon and in bookstores?
That falls under sales and marketing which is not part of our package. More about the process of selling your books is explained in the materials authored by Peter Bowerman which are included free with all but the Economy packages. Most likely, you will want to contact Castlebridge Distribution, our sister company that handles distribution and fulfillment. OR if you are less ambitious, you can do it all yourself. In either case, we strongly recommend you familiarize yourself with the techniques that Peter explains in his book.

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