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      • What about your saucepans?
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      • Bitten by Spain
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      • Seasons of Wealth
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      • Now It's Clear The Career You Own
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      • Benjamin's Bedtime Journey
      • Tracce di BioGeometria​
      • Do You Still Have Cleavage with Just One Breast?
      • Secrets of a Financial Adviser
      • Retire to the Life You Love
      • Laptop Entrepreneur
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      • Jump Down Under
      • Italy, a Romantic Journey
      • Postcards from the Ege
      • Going Local in Gran Canaria
      • Deconstructing Brazil
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      • Hanna and the Flying Carpet
      • Boudica's Daughters
      • A Family Just Like Mine
      • Bernard the Wombat
      • Benjamin's Bedtime Journey
      • Hanna Och Den Flygande Mattan
    • Humour >
      • Living Elsewhere
      • Life After My Saucepans
      • What About Your Saucepans?
      • Turkey Street
      • Perking the Pansies
      • Bitten by Spain
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      • The Art of Transition
      • Life in Motion
      • Rock of Ages
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      • Ar Lan y Môr​
      • Rock of Ages
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Bespoke Services from Springtime

Mentoring

Take your writing to another level with mentoring from writer, editor, teacher, speaker and publisher Jo Parfitt. As well as writing over 30 books herself, Jo has helped well over a hundred new authors to write and publish their own. Jo offers a flexible range of mentoring options.​
​What a joy it is to work with Jo on my second book! Why do I work with her? Because she intuitively sees into my heart, mind and soul. And with that insight, she draws from me the book that’s bubbling inside. She uses a magic mix of nurturing and caring with a clarity and discipline… that demands nothing but the very best from me. That’s what brilliant mentoring and coaching does. It’s rather like being sprinkled with fairy dust.
David Scarlett, author of The Soul Millionaire and The Flight of The Soul Millionaire

Appraisal

£150
Jo will appraise your book proposal (please use our Pipedream to Proposal document - P2P), your Table of Contents and up to 3,000 words of your writing, providing comments on subject, style, content, marketability and ways forward.​​
P2P Form

'Kick Start' Your Writing

If you would like to write a book with Jo's guidance and the support of other writers, please join the next available slot on one of her ever-popular 'Kick Start' programmes:
Kick Start Your How-to Book | Kick Start Your Memoir
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Sessional Mentoring

£950 for 7 hours or £150 per hour
Jo can work with you on a sessional basis. Choose what works best for you depending on your budget and where you are on your writing journey. Typically, this should enable you to polish your introduction and up to three chapters (or 10,000 words) of text.​
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'Your book from Scratch'

Jo's intensive 'Your Book from Scratch' mentoring will help you brainstorm, plan, create and perfect your book. Jo only works with up to four clients a year so you can sure of her undivided attention.
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Jo will work with you face-to-face, through email or via Skype/ phone — as often as once a week if required — while you work through her Release the Book Within programme.​
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Proofreading and editing

​We offer three levels of editing for your draft manuscript prior to publication — proofread, super proof and a full copy edit. Proofreading is an essential element of any book project, even for the most experienced writers. We quote a fee per thousand words rather than an hourly rate so you know up front what you will be paying.

Proofreading

from £8 per thousand words
​A thorough proofread — ​checking typos, spelling, formatting, consistency (in spelling, format, plot and pace) and grammar use.​

Superproof

from £10 per thousand words
​​A more intensive level of proofreading. In addition to checking typos, spelling, formatting, consistency, and grammar, a ‘super proof’ will also check the nuance and cadence of the text and add comments about any flaws in the plot or text.​

Copy Editing

from £20 per thousand words
Editing requires an expert with patience, a keen eye for detail and a thorough understanding of both the rules of grammar and common usage. We will look for consistency in format, structure and layout along with spelling and grammar. We will work with you to clarify ambiguity in meaning, check word nuance and best word use, tightening text as necessary — ​ all while retaining your authentic voice. The fee is inclusive of an initial Skype consultation to discuss your manuscript, and a sample edit of 1000 words.​
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Designing

You have put time and effort into writing your book and its interior and exterior design should reflect this. Springtime works with experienced and talented designers to make your book stand out from the crowd. 

Cover

from £250
We all judge a book by its cover so it pays to get this right. Our designer will work with you to create a beautiful jacket for your book — front, spine, back and e-book cover.​

Typesetting

from £3 per page
How a book looks inside — the font style and size, format and the way the words flow across the page — ​should reflect the quality of the content. Our end-to-end design service includes typesetting, creation of the title page, artwork (if appropriate) and conversion to a high resolution print-ready PDF.​

e-Book

from £200
We will create a Kindle edition of your book for publication on Amazon and an ePUB edition for publication on other e-book retailers (including Nook from Barnes and Noble, Kobo and Apple iBooks). ​
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Self-publishing

from £150
​If you prefer to self-publish and receive all net royalties, you give us your internal file, cover art (front, back and spine) and Kindle file and we'll set up and distribute your book through Amazon's KDP platform. If you need help with the design and conversion of your book, check out our design offer.
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Promotion

​These days, authors are expected to do a lot more to market their books both in person and through social media. This means developing a strong online presence with and appealing author website to showcase your book.

Getting Online

from £350
We can build your fully integrated website, blog and Facebook page, and create a high quality trailer to give your book a Hollywood moment in words, music and images.​​

Expat Bookshop

£100
List your book in the Expat Bookshop, the only website dedicated to expatriate-related titles.​
Expat-related titles only​​
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  • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Contact Us
    • Our Privacy Policy
    • Terms and Conditions
  • Services and Fees
  • Springtime Titles
    • Springtime Direct
    • Expat Life >
      • This Messy Mobile Life
      • Greetings from Abroadland
      • ANZC
      • Life After My Saucepans
      • What About Your Saucepans?
      • Turkey Street
      • Perking the Pansies
      • Bitten by Spain
      • Living Elsewhere
      • Drinking Camel's Milk in the Yurt
      • Passage to Persia
      • An Inconvenient Posting
    • Memoir >
      • Life After My Saucepans
      • What about your saucepans?
      • Do You Still Have Cleavage With Just One Breast?
      • Turkey Street
      • Passage of the Stork
      • Drinking Camel's Milk in the Yurt
      • Perking the Pansies
      • Passage to Persia
      • Bitten by Spain
      • An Inconvenient Posting
    • Moving >
      • This Messy Mobile Life
      • Greetings from Abroadland
      • Living Elsewhere
      • Life in Motion
      • Going Local in Gran Canaria
      • Unpack
      • Should I Stay or Should I Go?
      • Finding Your Feet in Chicago
      • Deconstructing Brazil
      • Laptop Entrepreneur
      • @Home in Dubai
    • Fiction >
      • Boudica's Daughters
      • A Family Just Like Mine
      • Bernard the Wombat
      • From Barcelona
    • Health, Wealth & Wellbeing >
      • Here We Are
      • The Art of Transition
      • Seasons of Wealth
      • Life in Motion
      • This Messy Mobile Life
      • The Flight of the Soul Millionaire
      • In Search of the Best Swedish Chokladbollar
      • Now It's Clear The Career You Own
      • Unpack
      • Benjamin's Bedtime Journey
      • Tracce di BioGeometria​
      • Do You Still Have Cleavage with Just One Breast?
      • Secrets of a Financial Adviser
      • Retire to the Life You Love
      • Laptop Entrepreneur
    • Travel >
      • Jump Down Under
      • Italy, a Romantic Journey
      • Postcards from the Ege
      • Going Local in Gran Canaria
      • Deconstructing Brazil
    • Children and Young Adults >
      • Hanna and the Flying Carpet
      • Boudica's Daughters
      • A Family Just Like Mine
      • Bernard the Wombat
      • Benjamin's Bedtime Journey
      • Hanna Och Den Flygande Mattan
    • Humour >
      • Living Elsewhere
      • Life After My Saucepans
      • What About Your Saucepans?
      • Turkey Street
      • Perking the Pansies
      • Bitten by Spain
    • Faith >
      • The Art of Transition
      • Life in Motion
      • Rock of Ages
    • Music >
      • Ar Lan y Môr​
      • Rock of Ages
  • Bookshop
  • For Writers
    • Jo Parfitt, Mentor
    • author2author
    • E-Learning
    • Me-Treats
    • Write Life Stories
    • Free Writers' Tools
  • News