How does CBW make money?
If we help you publish your book, and your books sell through CBW or Amazon.com we will make a percentage of the sale.
If you order copies of the book for your own use or to sell it on your own, we will make a profit.
If
you visit our website, click on our sponsor links, then purchase
products, we make a commission.. CBW encourages all our visitors to
patronize our sponsor links!
If we publish your book, we reserve the right to issue our CBW ISBN number for which a modest charge will be assessed. If you want someone else to publish the book, the new publisher will need to assign a different ISBN number, and we will have the option to retire the old ISBN. You will maintain rights to your original manuscript material.
See more about your responsibilities on the new authors' page and what CBW will do if your manuscript is accepted.
Cowboy Book Works
Independent Publisher
Are you an author who would like to be published?
CBW accepts queries for Suspense, Mystery and Thrillers.
Send your Author information, word count, storyline and your current status in the publishing process to cowboybookworks@yahoo.com.
Although we are open to all types of stories, we do not accept lurid sex, gratuitous violence or unnecessarily crude language.
You will receive a response email.
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CBW and Loaded Dice Publishing
If we accept your manuscript, we will help you through the publishing process. You will have your book available on Amazon. We work with a contracted printer that has excellent flexibility. You will be able to order your book for your own use of for sale or have people search for your book online.
We will include your book on our website and create a link directly to Amazon. No cost to the author.
You keep your rights to book. CBW will assign have the option to assign a ISBN. But you can change to another publisher or just discontinue with us.
Your cost to buy your book is vary reasonable. On a typical $12 book, a two hundred page novel of normal size is less than $5. You do pay for any shipping. You can set your price within some restrictions. You can sell your books on your own at any price you want. If someone orders a book from Amazon
What we don't do and therefore could cost the author:
We contract out most text editing. Though do have working relationship with an editor, your manuscript will determine what needs to be done. (This would be a possible cost for the author).
We do have a relationship with a internet marketing service. We can arrange for the search engine marketing, but we do not pay for it.
We will help design a color cover for you at no cost. Again if you have some unique cover in mind we may have to hire a designer or are wanting to use copyrighted material - this may involve a cost to you as the author.
We do not have a physical distribution source- i.e. wholesaler. Having said that, CBW has books available through Barnes and Noble and others - online and through special order. However, if your book ends up in a bookstore, it will because you have convinced someone to carry it. There are some procedures with the various bookstores that allow you to submit directly to them. We don't do it for you.
We are not an agent.
If you have other questions, just email us at cowboybookworks@yahoo.com
