About Us
Not long ago an agent or a publisher represented your book to distributors for a percentage of the sales, and a consultant, for a fee, explains how you get your manuscript on a self-publishing platform. Self-publishing has changed the agent/publisher/distributor industry. Authors can get 60% of the royalties from self-publishing, BUT that is net proceeds meaning that after all the costs are subtracted first. This sounds lucrative for authors, even though there are a many critical decisions.
The 5 Ws of the Flint Group
It is important for would-be authors to recognize that financial success is not a guarantee for the majority of writers. The completed product should be the metric by which authors evaluate their success. Despite the fact that the majority of us anticipate financial success from our books, they will not generate substantial profits. As authors, we define success by achieving what few others do: the publication of our written ideas.
Through drafts, revisions, and potential rejection, the process of writing a book necessitates perseverance, discipline, and dedication. The Flint Group offers personalized service to all of our authors because the process can be difficult.
Our publishing manager meets with the writer and discusses the steps to publishing, and then, depending on the plan, we set everything up. The author has the option to choose us to handle their marketing or handle that themselves.
Authors frequently must allocate time and resources to book promotion in order to attract readers. Marketing is essential and distinct from advertising. To advertise, you are required to pay for the time of another individual. From that point forward, the advertiser assumes responsibility.
Marketing is a collaborative endeavor. You have already dedicated a significant amount of time to the composition of your manuscript; however, in order to generate sales, you will need to allocate additional time to the promotion of your book.
Our experience is essential in demonstrating, directing, and moving your manuscript through the process.
We will take care of the marketing aspects that you are not proficient in, such as the creation of websites, the registration of search engines, the creation of A+ content for retailers, the provision of visual images for posting, the retouching and formatting of photos, and many other tasks that we will discuss during our initial phone conversation.
We would like your involvement in marketing. We will publish content; however, your followers will prefer to hear from you rather than a generic voice discussing your book. Upon reviewing the posts, it is possible to identify those that are either from a company or from a neophyte who believes that by posting frequently, they are able to increase brand recognition. Conversely, their posts are unremarkable and disregarded, which is an egregious waste of time.
Our logo was inspired by the second mass-produced book, The Book of Psalms, printed by Peter Schoffer. Most educated people know the first book mass-produced by Gutenberg was the Bible, but at Flint, we think sometimes being second can be really good too.
Self-publshing is a maze of decisions with an end result that the author may not sell their book or it ends up owing money if they priced it incorrectly. That is why a publisher or agent is good to have to direct an author around the pitfalls of publishing. The author makes less in royatlies but at least the books is distributed.
Our Core values:
Stay true to ourselves and customers and we won’t embarrass our company. Many people have a book within themselves but do not know how to get it out there. We do.
Our Mission:
Offer personalized service to each author with a process that will successfully publish a manuscript into a book. When they see their book online or printed, the feeling of accomplishment cannot be described.
Our Goals:
Partner with authors to build books everyone can be proud to have friends and peers read.
