Peak Publishing Package

Peak Publishing Package

Each ASCEND PACKAGE IS TAILORED TO THE NEEDS OF THE AUTHOR

Offering them different levels of editing support, coaching, and writing to help them craft the book they were meant to write.

In the Peak package, you do the writing, and Ascend does the editing, production, publishing, and publicity. We pair you with an experienced editor and production manager to create the book you have always wanted to write and sell. Together, we create a beautiful trade paperback or hardcover book to be sold nationally and across retail platforms, through national distribution with Simon & Schuster.

Jennifer Pastiloff, author of May You Remember

“Writing a book can be one of the hardest things you can do, but Rise Writers makes the process gentle, fun, and loving.”


— Jennifer Pastiloff, author of On Being Human and May You Remember (Dutton)

12 months out - launch editorial

  • Determine paperback or hardcover (Additional $15,000 cost for hardcover)

  • Deliver manuscript

  • Assign editor

  • Begin book jacket design

9 months out - launch production

  • Deliver book to production

  • Submit manuscript for advanced praise

  • Present title to Simon & Schuster

  • Share manuscript with subrights representation - audiobook, foreign rights, TV & film, and digital assets

6 months out - Launch marketing

  • Create marketing plan

  • Launch pre-sales

  • Begin monthly meetings with Director of Publicity + Marketing

  • Arrival of advanced readers copies for PR initiative

3 months out - launch publicity

  • Organize virtual and online book tours

  • Schedule all online and traditional media

  • Pitch media outlets first-person pieces on book topics

  • Coordinate Ascend Readers team

Book release!

  • Ongoing publicity and marketing support

  • Continued communication with Simon & Schuster on sales and reprints

  • Subsidiary rights support and development

  • Advertising across Amazon, social media, and other retailers

Our Pricing

  • Paperback

    Two payments of $22,500 ($45,000)
    $22,500 at signing
    $22,500 upon delivery to production

    OR

    Four payments of $12,250 ($50,000)
    $12,250 at signing
    $12,250 at delivery to production
    $12,250 6 months prior to publication
    $12,250 3 months prior to publication

  • Hardcover

    Two payments of $27,500 ($55,000)
    $27,500 at signing
    $27,500 upon delivery to production

    OR

    Four payments of $15,000 ($60,000)
    $15,000 at signing
    $15,000 at delivery to production
    $15,000 6 months prior to publication
    $15,000 3 months prior to publication

I'm Ready to Publish My Book

Review our other packages…

  • Summit

    In the Summit package, we offer an experienced book coach to take your brilliance and turn it into a trade paperback or hardcover book, supporting you with bi-weeklh calls through the writing process, and editing your final draft. Together, you and your co-writer will develop the book, with Ascend providing all the editorial, production, publishing, and publicity services your book deserves, along with national sales and distribution.

    Packages start at $60,000.

  • Apex

    With the Apex package, Ascend will provide you with a bestselling ghostwriter to take your incredible story and teachings and craft a hardcover or trade paperback version of your book. As with our other packages, Ascend Publishing provides full-scale editorial, production, publishing, marketing and publicity, in addition to sales and distribution from Simon & Schuster, and support with subsidiary rights.

    Packages start at $75,000.