As a business owner or independent consultant with a passion to share your knowledge and inspiration, a book will help raise your profile and gain new clients.
In the business world, nothing builds credibility like writing a book. As an author, you will have access to wider audiences, and used effectively, your book will help you receive invitations to present at events, to be interviewed by the media as an authority figure, or to contribute articles to magazines.
Your new channel
You have worked in your area of speciality for some years now and market across a variety of channels to ensure you are visible. You have your qualifications and practical expertise. Perhaps you write blogs, share on social media, have a mailing list, and have even produced a video or podcast.
Now it’s time to share your knowledge and to inspire people about what you do and how you do it by writing a book.
The Longueville process
Longueville Media’s proven self-publishing process for book production ensures that your publishing journey is enjoyable and successful.
Most people will only write one book in their life. The Longueville team have all worked for major publishing houses, such as Oxford University Press, Text Media, ThompsonLegal, and Pan Macmillan, so we know what makes a book read well and present professionally.
Because we want the best for you and your book, we will challenge what you have written and recommend improvements if we believe it doesn’t hit the mark. Our professional editors, graphic designers and printers, ensure that you get the right results every step of the way. There is no point paying for someone to produce your book if you don’t receive personal, honest feedback, and advice to get it right.
We want your work to be respected for its quality so it can stand proudly next to the books you already love.
Customisation
We can help you at any stage of your journey and with any customisation to make your book unique. Additional work we have provided to authors includes:
Author or book website
Publish with your own logo in the book (optional)
Printing in hardback
Printing as a leatherbound hardback
Print on sustainable FSC papers
Diagram or chart drawing
Author interviews to assist in writing your book
Delivering what you need
We can produce books in any format. Paperback is most common, but it may be that you need a more elaborate book with graphs and charts, full-color images, or that you have 20 blue-ribbon clients for whom a leather-bound book in a slipcase, printed on sustainable Icelandic paper is the only option.
Anything is possible. With consultation and creativity, we can fashion a unique product to suit your desires.
Marketing process
The reason you publish your book is simple: to share your knowledge in order to gain new clients. So the marketing and promotion process we recommend for business authors is specifically targeted to this result, rather than purely focusing on financial return from book sales.
We can provide advice on marketing for visibility, but can also offer retail bookshop distribution nationally and internationally.
