Tate Publishing is a company that my family started almost a decade ago with one desire; create an environment where authors truly can succeed. My parents had published a book when my father was Chief of Staff for the Lt. Governor of Oklahoma with a traditional publisher, the book was titled, "11 Reasons Families Succeed" and it sold very well, but as many authors find out the money always flowed to the publisher and rarely to the author. In addition, my parents did all of the work, travel, speaking, promotions, just about everything. The reality became clear that hard working authors deserved a chance to succeed and profit from their book and efforts and that opportunity didn't exist for most.
Tate Publishing was started to create this environment and has been the most successful publishing company story our industry has seen in quite some time. Tate Publishing offers more services, products, support,marketing and distribution that any publisher out there. Many will claim they are as good or provide the same level of service or products, but don't be deceived, none even come close.
As a Tate published author you will receive the following:
1. Editing - Copyediting, Technical Editing and Conceptual Editing
2. Custom Cover Design - Our in house design team will work with you to create the perfect cover, and back-matter that helps your book stand out on any shelf.
3. Custom Interior Layout - Your layout artist will once again work with you to make sure that the inside of the book is just as beutiful and attractive as the outside.
4. Ebook Creation and distribution - Every title is available to download as an ebook from our website and other online retailers for ease and instant use.
5. Audiobook creation and distribution - Tate Publishing produces our books as audiobooks as well, we are the largest provider of audiobooks to Apple iTunes and audible.com and have created another opportunity that no other publisher can for our authors to succeed and this gives a Tate author one more advantage over the competition.
6. Website design and hosting - What better way to promote than through your own website, while this can be difficult and confusing on your own we create the website for you and host it so it never costs you a dime. Plus it gives a constant online presence for promoting and selling your work.
7. Video book trailers and commercials - These commercials have become an amazing opportunity and tool for our marketing department and authors. The commercials are streaming from YouTube to our website bookstore, news reports and televisions worldwide. We have more books sold and recognized from these videos than could have every been expected.
8. Marketing - You are assigned an actual marketing rep that manages distribution, availability and sets up events for you worldwide.
9. Publicity - Every event and book is promoted to local and national media for the life of the work. We use several different publicity firms to promote you and your events, but our favorite is Key Marketing Group Communications.
10. Distribution - Tate Publishing product is all 100% returnable and warehoused and not simply made available for order or on a list. We have direct relationships with every major retailer, distributor and wholesaler and provide product directly to their warehouses and are even in the large publishing division with Barnes & Noble, no one else comes close!
As you can see, no one can compare to what Tate Publishing offers, many can publish books, but NO ONE provides the services, products and support that Tate Publishing provides. As you begin your journey ask a lot of questions, ask what other services other than simply book printing or creation a publisher can provide and make sure that you will have a partner that helps create opportunity for you.
Once again, our desire was to create an environment that an author could actually succeed. Tate Publishing authors out sell, work and promote all the competition. No one should have to go it alone. There are many options out there, but none are of the Tate standard, level of service or quality. I want to encourage you to check out our other blogs and chat with other staff members if you would like.
Visit our website and submit your manuscript for review, or simply call the office. We only accept a small percentage of authors for publication and have three options available. At Tate Publishing we either offer an advance, pick up the cost without any cost to the author or issue a contract with a refundable author investment. Regardless, every Tate author has a mix of products, services and distribution that no other company can match.
Let me know if you have any questions and I am looking forward to providing whatever assistance I can. God Bless you and as always I will be praying for your success no matter where you end up on your journey!
Sincerely,
Ryan Tate
