Build Until Publishing
A full editorial board at every stage, from your first idea to your final draft. An honest read against the bestsellers in your category. Then every step to Amazon and Audible, in plain words.
No royalties taken. No rights signed away. Pay per book, once.
Sample · The Shelf Test
Close: a few must fixes
must Chapter 1 takes six pages to reach the moment your story starts. Open there.
How it compares
Publishing houses and publishing services each do a lot for their authors. Let's Get It Published puts the best of that in one place you run yourself: an editorial board at every stage, every Amazon step in plain words, and your rights and royalties stay yours.
| Big publishing house | Typical self-publishing service | Build Until Publishing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Editors at every stage | Yes, if they pick your book | Varies by package | Yes, a full panel at every stage |
| Honest read against the bestsellers | Yes | Varies by package | Yes, with your own words quoted |
| Sounds like you, not AI | Your editor protects your voice | Varies by package | Your Voice profile and the Human Test on every chapter |
| Your rights | Set by your contract | Yours | Yours |
| Your royalties | A share set by your contract | Yours, after fees | 100% of what Amazon pays you |
| Time to publish | Often a year or two | Weeks | As fast as you finish |
| Cost to you | Free, if they choose you | Often $1,000 to $10,000 or more | From $197 per book |
Your editorial board
The roles inside a top publishing house, at your table from day one. Each seat gives its own honest take in minutes, as often as you need it.
1 · The Voice Lab
First, so every panel knows how you sound
Voice analystGhostwriter2 · The Acquisitions Board
Before you write a word
Acquisitions editorCategory analystAuthor-brand strategistYour ideal reader3 · The Structure Room
Before you draft
Developmental editorGenre specialistReader advocate4 · The Writing Room
While you write
Developmental editorLine editorReader advocateVoice keeper5 · The Shelf Test
When the draft is done
Acquisitions editorDevelopmental editorAuthor-brand strategist6 · The Copy Desk
Before formatting
CopyeditorProofreaderPermissions and claims readerSensitivity readerVoice keeper7 · The Human Test
Before you publish, on every chapter
AI-pattern readerVoice keeperReader who hates AI writing8 · The Marketing Room
Before you publish
Offer strategistStory-driven messengerAmazon metadata specialistPublicistVoice keeper9 · The Production Desk
Trim size, margins, bleed, spine and cover math, files Amazon accepts. The free calculator and the step-by-step Amazon guide.
10 · The Audio Booth
Coming soon: read your book with a teleprompter, and we clean and master it to Audible's rules. Record on video in Let's Sit Down for content.
11 · The Launch Room
Coming soon: your book's sales page, pre-orders, signed copies and a launch plan.
Sounds like you
Readers can tell when a book was written by a machine, and they stop trusting it. So we protect your voice at every stage.
Paste something you wrote or said naturally. The Voice Lab maps your rhythm, your words, your humor and the phrases that are only yours. Free.
A Voice keeper sits on the writing, polish and marketing panels and flags any line that doesn't sound like you, with how you'd actually say it.
Every chapter gets checked for the phrases and rhythms that make writing read like AI, then the panel shows you how to fix them in your own words.
Our own feedback goes through the same test. If it sounds like a machine, it gets rewritten before you see it.
Free, right now
Pick your size and page count. Get your spine width, full cover size, margins, Amazon's printing cost and what you earn per copy, before you design anything.
Open the calculatorPaste a few paragraphs you wrote or said naturally. See exactly how you sound, and what you'd never say, so your book stays yours.
Get my Voice profileTell us your book idea. Four seats tell you who it's for, the bestsellers it will sit next to, the gap it can own, and how it grows your business.
Get the board's readPricing
One price per book, paid once. No royalties, no subscriptions, no rights.
$0
forever
See where your book stands.
Most authors start here
$197
per book
The whole editorial board, for your whole book.
How it works
Two minutes. You get your own private page with your checklist and your board.
Send each stage to its panel: your idea, outline, chapters, full manuscript, final polish and cover copy.
Every Amazon and Audible step in order, your book's sales page, and a launch plan.
Questions
Yes. You publish from your own Amazon account, so Amazon pays you directly, and every right to your book stays yours. We never take a cut of your book sales.
AI panels built on the roles inside a top publishing house: acquisitions, developmental and line editors, copyeditors and proofreaders, permissions and sensitivity readers, marketing and metadata. Each seat gives its own honest take in minutes, as often as you need it.
Not if we can help it. First the Voice Lab learns how you really sound from something you wrote or said. Then every panel holds your pages to that voice, and the Human Test flags the phrases and rhythms that make writing read like a machine, with your own way to say it. We check our own feedback the same way.
We'll tell you the truth, quote your own words, and show you what the bestsellers in your category do better. Then you decide. If you're happy with your book, you publish it as it is.
You can use AI to brainstorm, organize and edit, and Amazon calls that AI assisted. If AI wrote passages or made your images, Amazon asks you to say so when you publish. We walk you through answering honestly.
Yes. Picture books have their own rules for color, bleed, page size and image sharpness, and the panels and the calculator handle them.
The Audio Booth gives you a teleprompter for every chapter, and we clean and master the audio to Audible's rules. We recommend recording on video in Let's Sit Down too, because every session becomes content for your launch.
As fast as you finish. Amazon reviews a new book in up to 72 hours. Most of the time goes into making the book great, and the panels make that part faster.
Start free. See what the board says. Publish when you're ready.