Friday, February 7, 2020

BLUE VALLEY AUTHOR SERVICES provide affordable cover art and formatting for your books



Have you been struggling trying to find affordable cover art for your books? I've recently come across a business, BLUE VALLEY AUTHOR SERVICES, to rebrand my "Loving a Billionaire" series. I've been working with Victorine and she has been so accommodating all my requests. They offer a full compliment of services, book cover design, eBook formatting and paperback formatting.

Their website is: www.bluevalleyauthorservices.com.

Welcome to Blue Valley Author Services


We offer eBook and paperback formatting and cover art at affordable prices. We take great care to make sure your book looks professional. Authors who present a professional product sell more, and at higher prices. We know not all authors can format their books, or design a professional-looking cover. With our help, your book will be just like a traditionally-published book.

The staff includes:

Brenda Camp

Brenda Camp has just hit her one year anniversary with Blue Valley Author Services. Trained by her sister Victorine E. Lieske, she has artfully crafted dozens of eBook and print covers, some of which have found themselves on top seller lists in their respective genres. Always willing to listen to the client’s desire, Brenda strives to bring to life their vision while incorporating her experience to balance results with the market. 



Victorine Lieske

Victorine Lieske has been professionally designing book covers for the last six years. Her cover for Accidentally Married won the Best of Adult award in the IndieRevAwards book cover contest. She has designed book covers for authors and publishing houses, as well as her own New York Times Best Selling novel, Not What She Seems. She lives in Nebraska.

Craig Hansen

Craig Hansen has formatted in excess of 450 books for a wide variety of independent authors, as well as traditional publishing clients. He has been working in editorial and formatting capacities for a variety of employers over the past twenty years, with experience formatting everything from print books to eBooks to SOP manuals and newspapers. Outside of Blue Valley Author Services, Hansen is also an author with seven books to his credit to date, including Most Likely, Shada, Under Contract, The Devohrah Initiative, Nice Girl Like You, Spoiled, and The Woodsman. His writing and editorial experience, which includes an extensive background in the book-industry-standard, The Chicago Manual of Style, means Blue Valley clients will benefit from his trained eyes formatting their manuscripts.

Andie Hansen

Andie Hansen is a talented new comer to Blue Valley Author Services. Trained by her husband Craig Hansen, she landed her first long-term client in her very first attempt. Fully capable of both eBook and print formatting, Andie brings a fresh energy and enthusiasm to every new client.


Some of the fonts available include: 
          

At Blue Valley Author Services, we enjoy offering options. Every product we offer can therefore be ordered on an ala carte basis. For further savings, however, we also offer a variety of package deals to help our clients save even more money, while still receiving top-notch professional service and products.
  • Graphic Design ala carte options
• eBook Cover Design – $49
• Print Cover Design (add to ebook design) – $100
• Audio Book Cover – $25
• Facebook Header/Banner Ad (when purchasing a cover) – $30
• Logo Design – $50
• Business Card Design – $50
  • Formatting
• KDP or Lightning Source Print Formatting: $100
• Print Formatting (Other Provider): Please Inquire
• Short-Fiction eBook-Only Formatting $60. MUST BE UNDER 40K WORDS TO BE ELIGIBLE!) Includes the following:
        Kindle Upload (.mobi)
        Generic ePub.
• Fiction eBook Formatting $100. Includes the following:
        Kindle Upload (.mobi)
        Generic ePub.
• On special request, we accommodate retailer-specific branding for epubs. An additional charge may apply.
        Apple (ePub)*
        Kobo (ePub)
        Nook (ePub)

*Note: You must provide your own ISBN number, and own a Mac computer, to upload directly to Apple. If you do not have these, you can distribute to Apple using Smashwords, Draft2Digital, OmniLit, or other providers.
• Other Retailer-Specific Outlets (Please Inquire. An additional charge may apply.)
• Non-fiction eBook Formatting: $100
Includes the same outputs as fiction.
       
  • Policy on excessive changes
Some authors/clients provide very clean copy; others request changes late in the game, after formatting has begun. If the extent of the changes are minimal in number, we happily provide this service free of charge. However, others need far more changes made. Excessive changes to a manuscript after formatting has begun requires extra time spent on a project. Therefore, limits to what we “do for free” must be set.
Therefore, effective immediately, here is our new policy on excessive changes.
One round of up to 20 changes to the text will be provided free-of-charge.

If more than 20 changes are required, clients will be invoiced at a rate of $0.75 USD per change.

If additional rounds of changes are requested, The per-change rate will be $0.75 USD per change, starting from the first change.

Our best advice: submit clean manuscripts that are already fully edited and proofread, to avoid excessive change-fee surcharges. Never use formatting as “a proof-copy” prior to editing or proofreading, or just to “see what it looks like,” as that will lead to additional fees.


If a project submitted has too many apparent errors, Blue Valley Author Services reserves the right to refer the author to obtain more editing help, or to turn down the formatting job if that becomes necessary.

Our goal is to work with our clients (publishers and authors alike) to create the best eBooks possible, so if we suggest you obtain more editing for a project, please trust that we do so only to make your book the best it can possibly be.

One round of up to 20 changes to the text will be provided free-of-charge.
If more than 20 changes are required, clients will be invoiced at a rate of $0.75 USD per change.

If additional rounds of changes are requested, The per-change rate will be $0.75 USD per change, starting from the first change.

If a project submitted has too many apparent errors, Blue Valley Author Services reserves the right to refer the author to obtain more editing help, or to turn down the formatting job if that becomes necessary.

Our goal is to work with our clients (publishers and authors alike) to create the best eBooks possible, so if we suggest you obtain more editing for a project, please trust that we do so only to make your book the best it can possibly be.


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