Boutique Publishing Company
CreateBooks is a boutique publishing company specialising in award-winning books for children, young adults and education purposes. All books published by Create Books emphasise its philosophy of respect for self, others, property and the environment.
About Create Books
CreateBooks is committed to publishing high quality books in both content and presentation.
CreateBooks offers a variety of services including:
- Manuscript Assessment
- Editing
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- Writing Workshops for Adults
- Workshops for children on writing and illustrating a book
- Self-Publishing
About Ann Neville
Ann Neville, director of CreateBooks, has a Masters in Education, Dip in Ed Management, Dip in Ed Leadership, Grad Dip in Creative Writing, Grad Dip in Publishing and Master of Creative Fiction. She is an accomplished facilitator and research writer in the education field and has a special interest in strategies that mitigate against all forms of violence including physical, verbal, exclusion, sexual harassment, racial abuse, deprivation of human rights and cyber bullying.
Our Services
We can help with your book writing journey.
Proof Reading
A thorough, yet basic and unobtrusive edit of the text in your book, e.g. spelling, grammar and syntax.
Cover Design
Colour images sourced, paid for and designed by us to create an attention-grabbing face for your book.
Formatting
Formatting, both for print and e-book.
Distribution
e-book to Amazon (Kindle), Apple (iBooks), Kobo, Barnes and Noble, Playster, Scribd, Tolino, 24Symbols, Overdrive and Bibliotheca for readers to buy and download. You will be able to set the price yourself.
Registration
Registering your book on the New Zealand National Library database.
Printing
If you would like print copies of your book, we can organise a quote for a fixed number of print copies from a New Zealand printer. This printer offers print-on-demand and distribution facilities so you will not need to purchase in bulk.
In addition to keeping 100% of the royalties your book will earn, you will also retain all rights to your book, so you can submit it to any publishing house you wish.
Our price for this service for ebook publication is $950 (excl GST). Your book will be formatted, registered and distributed worldwide to e-book providers. After this, all revenue from your book goes exclusively to YOU!
The price for including the up-loading of your book in print format for worldwide distribution through companies such as The Book Depository, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Fishpond and Mighty Ape is an extra $200 (excl GST).
Biography Services
Why tell your life story?
It is your gift to your descendants. When your family reads your story, they will feel like you are in the room with them. So will their children, their grandchildren and all your future descendants. Every one of them will feel as if they know you. And you will get to give them the benefit of your thoughts and experiences, beliefs, values, attitudes, logic, humour and personality.
It is a unique experience.
Your life is important and deserves to be shared and remembered. You will enjoy telling and reliving your unique story. It is a good investment in your family. Do you know stories about your parents' lives or your grandparents' lives? Those stories would be so interesting. Your descendants will be equally interested in your life story and be thankful you recorded it.
Why ask Ann Neville to write your life story?
Writing is a time consuming task and Ann is an experienced writer of biographies. Apart from biographies, she also writes life stories on a voluntary basis for Hospice, and both fiction and non-fiction books. Everything you tell Ann is totally confidential. You have the final say as to what is included. Your story will be presented in a professional and stylish way. Only one copy is provided. However, you can purchase further copies if you would like them.
What is involved in the process?
Typically, the process will involve 2 to 6 hours of taped interview time. After each of the tapes has been transcribed, you will be asked to read the written draft. You can then delete or add information as you wish. Alternatively, you may prefer to write your story yourself and get Ann to do the typesetting. Once the taping/typesetting is completed, the editing process begins. The combined transcriptions are put into order. Photos/cuttings/documents can be inserted at this time. You will then have a last chance to change or add anything else to your story before printing occurs.
How much is a record of your life worth?
The value to your descendants is incalculable. The final monetary price depends on the complexity and quantity of material (e.g. photos, documents, etc) to be included. For each hour of recording, four to five hours will be needed for transcription and editing. Printing and binding costs are also variable depending on the style chosen.