InkLab

The book is already
in your head.

You have spent a career earning something worth writing down. We take it from conversation to a finished, publishable manuscript — in your voice, under your name, owned entirely by you.

Start with two free chaptersSee how it works

No payment to begin. Two real chapters, then you decide.

Two chapters
before any payment
7–14 days
brief to full manuscript
Full copyright
assigned to you
NDA as standard
signed before we start

The honest problem

Most expert books die at chapter three.

Not from lack of expertise — from lack of runway. The structure never quite settles. Chapter four contradicts chapter one. Six months pass and the manuscript is a folder of drafts that no longer agree with each other.

What is missing is rarely knowledge. It is the apparatus around the knowledge: a spine that holds, a voice that stays yours for three hundred pages, and somebody whose job it is to notice when page 210 undoes page 40.

How it works

Five steps. You approve every one.

  1. A short intakeYour topic, your reader, the argument only you can make. Twenty minutes.
  2. Two chapters, freeWithin 48 hours you read real chapters — drafted to your tone, not a generic sample.
  3. You commissionOnly if the sample reads like the book in your head. Nothing is owed before this point.
  4. The full manuscriptStructured, evidenced, consistent end to end, and written in your voice throughout.
  5. Two revision roundsYou reshape chapters, tone and emphasis. Then the files are yours.

Begin here

Read two chapters before you spend anything.

The fastest way to judge a writer is to read what they write for you — not a portfolio of what they wrote for somebody else.

Start with two free chapters

The standard we hold

The parts nobody sees are the parts that fail.

A manuscript can read beautifully and still be unpublishable. These are the checks a book has to survive before we will put your name on it.

Sourced, not asserted

Factual claims are traced back to material we can name. Where a claim rests on your own experience, it is marked as yours — not dressed up as research.

Consistent as a whole book

Terms are checked across the entire manuscript, not chapter by chapter. A framework introduced in chapter two is still the same framework, under the same name, in chapter eleven.

Your voice, held for 300 pages

We build a profile from how you actually write and speak, then hold it. Consistency of voice is what separates a book from a collection of chapters.

Print-ready, properly

Trim size, gutter, spine width and bleed built to the specification your printer expects — so the file uploads without a rejection.

Licensed material only

We build on sources we are entitled to build on, and we keep the record of which. Your book should not inherit somebody else’s legal problem.

Certificate of Authorship

Every manuscript ships with a certificate fingerprinted to your original brief — durable evidence that the work originated with you.

What you receive

PDF · DOCX · EPUB

Every format a publisher, a printer or a store will ask you for.

Full copyright

Assigned to you on delivery. We retain nothing and claim nothing.

Two revision rounds

Structured, not open-ended — so the book actually finishes.

A listing guide

What to do with the files once they are yours.

Investment

Fixed. Transparent. All-in.

Structuring, writing, quality checks and all three delivery formats — included in every package. Commission the full manuscript directly whenever you are ready; the free sample is a way to start, not a requirement to order.

Compact Book

$300USD

~150 pages · 8–10 chapters · 7 days

  • ~40,000 words
  • PDF + EPUB + DOCX
  • One revision round
  • Certificate of Authorship
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Full Book

$450USD

~250 pages · 12–18 chapters · 14 days

  • ~65,000 words
  • PDF + EPUB + DOCX
  • Two revision rounds
  • Book DNA Report
  • Certificate of Authorship
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Not sure yet? Start with two free chapters instead.

Reasonable objections

The questions you should be asking.

Will it sound like me?

That is the whole test, and it is why the first two chapters are free. You read them before any money changes hands. If the voice is wrong, you walk away owing nothing.

Who owns it?

You do — completely, on delivery. Copyright, the manuscript, the files. We sign an NDA before the brief and we do not use your material anywhere else.

What if the draft is wrong?

Two structured revision rounds are included, and you review chapter by chapter rather than being handed 300 pages at the end.

How long does it take?

Seven to fourteen days from commissioned brief to full manuscript, depending on length and how much source material you supply.

Commitment

Nothing,
until you have read it.

The intake is free. The two sample chapters are free. You commission the full manuscript only once you have read work written specifically for your book, in your voice, on your subject.

We would rather lose the commission at chapter two than deliver a book you are not proud to put your name on.

Start with two free chapters

The world does not need another book. It needs yours.

Start with two free chapters

Free intake · Two free chapters · NDA signed before we begin