TCK Publishing

About Vendor

We are a no-fee, independent book publishing company. That means we provide free publishing services, we don’t charge any fees, and we earn our profits from designing, publishing, and promoting your books for you.

• Authors must contact us with a brief query letter. See our submission guidelines here.
• After we receive your query letter, we will send you a few questions to get more information about you, your work and your future plans as an author.
• Next, we will ask you to submit your manuscript for review. We prefer to receive manuscripts submitted in a Word Document (.docx or .doc format) so that we can use Track Changes and make comments and edits as we review your book.
• If we like the manuscript, we will send it back to you with edits and comments and then schedule a brief call to connect and see if working together might be a good fit.
• After your book is submitted, approved for publication, and we feel it would be a good fit to publish your book, we’ll send you a publishing contract so we can come to a clear agreement and both parties will be protected.

• Our editors provide free copyediting, line editing, and proofreading services to make sure your book is in top shape before we publish it.
• The author and TCK Publishing split all income from book sales, royalties, and subsidiary rights (like foreign language translation rights and movie deals) 50/50. For every dollar your books make, you earn half and we earn half. Offering 50% royalties means you are getting paid 3-6 times more royalties than what traditional publishers offer.
• Once the contract is signed, we can discuss and agree upon the book title and cover design. We will then format the manuscript for Kindle and print. After the book title, cover design, edits, and formatting are approved by the author, we will publish the book on Amazon and other retailers and start marketing it. We can narrate and publish audiobooks as well if it makes sense to do so for your book.
• We will also write a compelling and thorough book description for the book on Amazon and do extensive keyword research and on-site Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for the book to attract as many readers as possible through Amazon search, Google, and other search engines.
• After the book is published, we will schedule a book launch and promotion (see how Kindle Countdown Deals have increased book sales by 905% on average so far for our clients). This massive week-long promotion will allow us to attract hundreds, thousands, and in some cases tens of thousands of new readers for the book. During this promotion, we will promote the book on Facebook, Twitter, and dozens of blogs, forums, and book promotion websites.
• We will provide you with a list of marketing activities that only the author can do, such as connecting with Amazon reviewers, connecting with influential bloggers in your market, posting on certain forums for authors, podcast interviews, guest blogging, and more.
• We will set you up with our proprietary marketing software to help you manage contacts with book reviewers and bloggers in your market.
• After the first 90 days in KDP Select, we will evaluate book sales and our marketing efforts and form a strategy for the next 90 days—either another KDP Select promotion or distribution to other ebook distributors such as iBooks, Barnes & Nobles (Nook), Google Play, Kobo, and other digital retailers.
• Right now, we’ve found our clients earn more income by publishing exclusively with KDP Select than they would with other eBook distributors. This makes sense given all the extra perks and income from the program combined with the fact that Amazon controls over 73% of the US ebook market and as much as 80% of the UK market for eBooks.