Whether you are an established author hoping to expand your reach, a new author or agent who wants guidance on a manuscript or proposal, a small business who needs assistance with branding or writing copy, a blogger looking for a team of writers to fill out your site, or a professional who needs input on developing a creative strategy for your company, we’re here to help.
Your content is what sets you, your brand, and your business apart. At The Foreword Collective, we have the training and expertise to help provide you with compelling, individualized copy to ensure your website, menu, blog, or newsletter speaks your message loud and clear. The Foreword Collective has you covered with content—no matter where you are in the development process!
Writing for Hire: Ghostwriting for books of all genres, creating and curating content for newsletters or company publications, building presentations, and writing speeches.
Copywriting: Back cover and jacket copy, catalog copy, biography writing, web copy, item descriptions for shops, menu or menu of service writing, and scripts for audio and video projects.
Creation of Content: Creating and curating unique content for websites, blogs, and social media accounts. This can also include boilerplates, mission statements, job descriptions, biographies, and about statements.
Existing Content Refresh: Provide a full assessment of the content on your website with recommendations for improvement and problem solving, followed by editing and re-writing current content for clarity, brand and message consistency, overall flow, and optimized engagement.
Hiring an outside editor can be daunting—how do you know they’re as good as they say they are? We put each of our editors through rigorous testing and training to ensure they really are that good. Our editors can be hired as independent contractors or we can provide editorial services as a vendor.
Substantive Editing: Overarching editing for theme, tone, plot, character development, voice, and overall quality. We have extensive experience shaping manuscripts of all genres and developing and perfecting authors’ voices.
Line Editing: More detailed, granular content editing that includes rephrasing and tweaking of an author’s voice. This is the stage where a manuscript is polished and honed for maximum effect.
Cover and Image Direction: We do tend to judge books by their covers and we can help you create a cover that screams, “Read me!” We can offer general direction and ideas, mood boards, or hiring and working with a designer to create a cover with your input. We can also source photos and photographers for interiors and marketing.
Product Development: We can help with fleshing out a book concept, deciding the next step in your publishing program, or aid publishers who needs help brainstorming ancillary products or proprietary book ideas. Seeing possibilities and potential expansions is one of our specialties.
Proposal Editing: We work with authors and agents to put together top-notch book proposals that acquisitions editors and publishers can’t ignore.
It can be tough to look at yourself or your business as a brand, but it’s essential to success! We’re experienced at looking at all of the pieces from 50,000 feet and figuring out exactly how to create a cohesive branding strategy that speaks to your target audience and shares your story authentically while utilizing impeccable storytelling and design.
Brand development: Overall branding direction and strategy
Product Roll Out Plans: Part of building a strong brand is knowing what to sell and what NOT to sell. We can help you focus your offerings and identify ideal ancillary products that speak back to your brand and core messaging.
Covers and Packaging: This is an area where we truly shine. We’ve worked on some of the most coveted and eye-catching covers and book packaging out there—and we've won awards for them! We can provide direction, help you select and work with designers, or give feedback on covers you've already developed to optimize them.
The publishing and media worlds can be tricky to navigate. It never hurts to have experts on your side!
A brand or product owner who wants to expand into publishing, but you need advice on book deals or licensing deals or even what type of book to publish first?
A new author looking to pitch her first book and unsure of how to proceed?
An established author who wants to increase her readership or expand her reach?
A publisher who wants guidance for how to expand into ancillary or children’s products for your authors?
A job seeker who wants to find a job in the publishing industry and needs guidance or resume and portfolio help?
A writer or copyeditor who wants to break into freelance work within the publishing industry?
An initial meeting to establish needs and goals, followed by creation of a customized plan to meet those needs
Creation of licensing plans
Help with acquisitions and deal making
List management and fill-in
Manuscript pitch development
Social media strategies
Even if you don’t see your potential project listed here, please get in touch and we’ll see if it’s within our expertise.
Contact us
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(615) 497-4322
info@theforewordcollective.com
