Children's Starlight

£3,999.00

The Children’s Starlight package builds on the Pixie package with expanded features, helping your book shine even brighter. From hardcover format to double the illustrations, this package gives your story a standout presence. With added marketing support, cover copy polish, and ability to set your book price, Starlight is ideal for authors aiming for greater visibility and impact.

Here’s what you get with the Children’s Starlight publishing package:

Formatting

• Paperback Publishing: Your book will be available in the most popular format, made of quality, perfect binding, and acid-free library stock paper.
• Digital Formatting and Distribution: Your book is distributed online as an e-book and available through significant resellers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
• Hardcover Publishing: Your hardcover edition will be perfect bound with a rigid paperboard and finished with a beautiful dustjacket or in a sturdy case-bound volume with high gloss lamination.

Production and Post Production Features

• Worldwide Online Distribution: Your book will be available for sale online through external retailers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other resellers that may pick up your book from Ingram.
• Custom Cover Design: Authorhouse's experienced design team will help you create a unique cover design that will bring your book to life.
• Custom Page Design: You will have a say in creating visually appealing page designs bringing your story to life, and building your book's layout that fits your needs.
• Electronic Galley: Also referred to as “galley proof,” this is a digital proof of your book’s cover and layout, emailed for your review and approval before publishing.
• 50 Image Insertions: You may provide imagery for your book’s interior pages, and these will be printed in full colour.
• 50 Images for Enhancement: Basic custom edits to improve or transform images for your book, including retouching, repairs, effects, and adjustments.
• One Round of Interior Revisions: You may want to make changes to your manuscript after proofreading your galley. Each block of revisions allows you to submit up to 50 corrections.
• One Round of Cover Revisions: Have any tweaks you'd like to make to your cover? You have the option to make changes at no additional cost.
• Amazon "Look Inside", Google, and Barnes & Noble "Read Instantly" Previews: Allow readers to take a peek inside your book creating interest online before purchasing it. Preview available on Amazon, Google, Barnes & Noble, etc.
• 24 Custom Colour Illustrations*: Your story comes to life with 24 Personal Touch Colour illustrations. At this level, illustrations are hand-drawn and coloured digitally, creating clean lines and complementary tones—ideal for a simple, classic look for your book.
• Enhanced Metadata Listing: Optimized metadata and keywords potentially help your book gain visibility in Amazon search results, so readers discover your book.
• Set Your Own Price: This service gives you the chance to be more competitive in the literary market by letting you change the retail price of your book.

Editorial

• Cover Copy Polish: Let our professional copywriters rework your back book cover summary, author bio and keynote so it creates interest among readers.

Registrations

• ISBN Assignment: A 13-digit identifier is unique to your book and an industry requirement for distribution and retail sales. It allows distributors, retailers, printers, and readers to find and order your book easily.
• Library of Congress Control Number: AuthorHouse will submit a copy of your book to the Library of Congress and arrange for a card catalog number to be assigned to your book.
• UK Legal Deposit: The legal deposit is a system that helps ensure that the nation’s published output is preserved and available for future generations of readers.

Book Copies

• 250 Promotional Digital Bookstubs: Receive 250 unique one-time use bookstub codes that lets readers download your e-book helping you share promotional copies and grow your audience.
• 20 Softcover Copies - Receive twenty softcover copies of your book, included as part of your package. Perfect for sharing or showcasing your work.
• 1 Hardcover Copy - Receive a high-quality hardcover copy of your book as part of your publishing package.

Marketing Features

• £200 Credit for Marketing Services: Get a £200 one-time use credit that can be applied as a discount for future marketing services designed to promote your book.
• Social Media Kit with Book Banners: Be equipped with an all-in-one guide to creating a strong online presence, with tips on managing your profiles and custom book banners designed to showcase your work across social platforms.
• Author Website Setup (6 pages) with One Year of Hosting: Launch a professional author website, tailored to your style and brand. On your site, readers can explore your book, learn more about you, and stay connected to your work.
• Book Sales Savvy Guide: With helpful exercises and practices, this marketing guide can give you the confidence and skills you need to draw bookstores to sell your book.
• New Releases Section on the AuthorHouse Bookstore: Have your book featured on our online bookstore’s ‘New Releases’ section spotlighting it for a limited time upon its publication date.
• Print-Ready Bookmarks Design File: These are the PDF files of bookmark design so you can print bookmarks at home or through a local printer to be used for promotional events.
• Print-Ready Marketing Materials Design File: Get professionally-designed files for marketing materials you need. Provide specs from your local printer, and we’ll deliver the design files within seven business days.
• Half Page Feature on BookMad: Enjoy the limelight from your author spotlight feature on BookMad, a digital magazine dedicated to publishing trends, highlighting new authors, and book releases.
• Booksellers Return Program for 24 months: Marks your book as “Returnable” in the wholesaler/distributor ordering systems, giving bookstores credit for unsold copies. Essential for authors seeking shelf space and in-store signings.
• Press Release to 100 Media Outlets: We will get the word out about your book by sending a single-page press release to 100 targeted media outlets, including TV shows, radio, online publications, and more.
• Book Launch Social Media Announcement: We’ll give you and your book a Facebook shout-out on our platform and Bookmad’s to help promote your newly-released title.

*Do you need a more intricate and detailed level of illustrations service? You may swap your 24 Personal Touch illustrations for either 17 Fine Detail OR 11 Intricate Design illustrations.