Submissions
Dragon Crown Books works with and publishes books by select authors but does not accept submissions via this website. For authors with whom we choose to work, we tailor publishing packages to meet your needs. The information below delineates the services we provide to our authors.
Services
Editing
In addition to writing more than 50 books, Stephen H. Provost worked for 30 years as an editor at daily newspapers in California. He has edited numerous books in genres ranging from fantasy and horror to historical memoirs, as well as having collaborated on biographies. Editing may be included as part of a package publishing deal.
Rates
Fiction, first pass — $0.015/word ($15/1,000 words)
Fiction, second look — $0.01/word ($10/1,000 words)
Nonfiction, first pass — $0.020/word ($20/1,000 words)
Nonfiction, second pass — $0.015/word ($15/1,000 words)
Publishing
The publisher utilizes KDP print-on-demand publishing to produce the books bearing the Dragon Crown imprint and has a decade of experience in doing so. We do not currently work with IngramSpark, Lulu, or other formats. The reason is simple: Amazon dominates the vast majority of the market, and we seek to give our books the best possible exposure and widest distribution without the duplication of effort required to publish on multiple platforms.
Design
The publisher has created interior and cover designs for the majority of products on Dragon Crown Books using Microsoft Word, Photoshop Elements, PicMonkey, and other tools. Prior to founding Dragon Crown, his work as a newspaper editor involved designing pages, including front pages, for six publications in California over a 30-year period. As with editing services, cover and interior design services may be included as part of a publishing package, at the author’s request.
Why publish with us?
Experience — I’ve been writing and publishing books for a decade and editing copy for three times that long.
Support — As authors ourselves, we believe in supporting other authors. We know what it’s like to be in your position, and we work with you to achieve the best possible outcome. Because we only work with a select few authors, we can provide personal, responsive service to our clients.
Efficiency — By using print-on-demand, we can get your book into print and out to the public much faster than at a larger publishing house. If you’ve ever had to wait a year or two before seeing your book in print, that’s not a worry here.
Responsiveness — Print-on-demand also enables us to make changes immediately if you (or a reader) find a problem. You won’t be stuck with 1,000 copies that include an error, because we can fix it on the fly.
Pricing and royalties — We offer more-than-competitive publishing packages and royalty agreements tailored individually to your needs.
Honesty — If we don’t provide a service you need, we’ll tell you and, if we can, suggest an alternative that will work for you.
Publishing packages
Lump-sum plan
The Basics
Includes editing services, interior design, ISBN, and publishing assistance, for a one-time cost, typically no more than $2,000, with the cost depending on the extent of editing and interior design work required. (Books with photos or illustrations may cost more; the author provides a sample of his or her project to help determine the price.)
As with the Print / Kindle split plan, cover design services are an additional $200, or you can choose to design the cover yourself / use an outside designer.
Dragon Crown will assist you in publishing your book on Amazon KDP, under the Dragon Crown imprint, in paperback, hardcover, and eBook editions.
Your book will be featured on the Dragon Crown site (dragoncrownbooks.com) and promoted on social media connected with Dragon Crown Books.
Royalties
You receive as many hard copies as you wish at cast (printing + shipping), and keep all the profits from the physical sales.
As the author, you receive 100% of the royalties for online sales and creative control to update your book as you see fit.
Rights
You retain rights to the book and its contents and may publish a new edition of the book at any time.
Dragon Crown Books may not sell any physical copies of your book for a profit without your consent.
25-50-100 split
The Basics
You pay for editing services at the rates above plus $200 for interior design. Dragon Crown provides the ISBN.
As with the other two plans plan, you can choose to pay an additional $200 for cover design services or design the cover yourself / use an outside designer.
Dragon Crown will publish your book on Amazon KDP under the Dragon Crown imprint in paperback, hardcover, and eBook editions.
Royalties
You receive as many hard copies as you wish at cast + 25%. You receive all profits from those sales (the 25% is paid up front). You receive 50% of the profits from online sales, paid quarterly, with quarterly statements from Dragon Crown.
Dragon Crown has the right to print and sell physical copies and retain 100% of the profits from those sales. Dragon Crown agrees not to directly compete with you at any sales events.
Rights
You agree to wait for a period of two years before publishing a new edition of your book with a new ISBN number. You retain the rights to any interior images you have provided. You may submit excerpts of your book constituting less than 25% of the content for publication in anthologies.
Print / Kindle split
The Basics
You pay for editing services at the rates above plus $200 for interior design.
As with the lump-sum plan, you can choose to pay an additional $200 for cover design services or design the cover yourself / use an outside designer.
Dragon Crown will publish your book on Amazon KDP under the Dragon Crown imprint in paperback, hardcover, and eBook editions.
Your book will be featured on the Dragon Crown site (dragoncrownbooks.com) and promoted on social media connected with Dragon Crown Books.
Royalties
You receive as many hard copies as you wish at cast (printing + shipping) and keep any income generated by physical sales. Dragon Crown Books may not sell any physical copies of your book for a profit without your consent.
Dragon Crown Books furnishes the ISBN and receives any income generated from online sales.
Rights
You agree to wait for a period of two years before publishing a new edition of your book under a different ISBN number. You retain the rights to any interior images you have provided. You may submit excerpts of your book constituting less than 25% of the content for publication in anthologies.
Custom plan
We’ll work with you to come up with a plan that makes sense for you and for Dragon Crown.