Get Your Book Printed
Please note that Leaf Books will soon stop offering this service. We will honour existing orders and are in the process of contacting past customers to negotiate the smooth transition to another provider. From now on we recommend people wishing to conduct a private print job contact Jaque Thay to discuss their needs. We have worked with Jaque in the past and can fully endorse his services. He is entirely capable and can offer any of the services listed that we used to undertake.
Memoir Printing Offer
As a result of the huge response for the Memoir Competition and the high quality of the entries we realise that there must be many people who have written extensively about their lives. More extensively than our 1000 word limit for a competition. So we are offering a Memoir Printing Service so you can get your work into print for friends, family and posterity. From as little as £5/copy for a perfect bound, colour cover and fully laminated book. We can even include photographs. For more information look on the website
What you do:
Send us a word document and any photos.
What we do:
Typeset the text, layout the photographs, give you a free ISBN number and send you a free electronic proof. We can also design a cover from an image you send us.
The costs:
From as little a £5/copy –
As a guide: (there are usually about 250-300 words per page in a bound book)
Up to 50 pages: (Often a poetry collection)
First 25 copies £6.00/copy + P&P
Further copies £5.00/copy + P&P (must be ordered in batches of 25)
Up to 100 pages: (Often a short story collection)
First 25 copies £6.50/copy + P&P
Further copies £5.50/copy + P&P (must be ordered in batches of 25)
Up to 150 pages: (Often a short story collection, memoirs or novella)
First 25 copies £7.50/copy + P&P
Further copies £6.50/copy + P&P (must be ordered in batches of 25)
Up to 200 pages: (Often a novel)
First 25 copies £8.00/copy + P&P
Further copies £7.00/copy + P&P (must be ordered in batches of 25)
For an exact estimate and any more information contact Cecilia (cecilia@leafbooks.co.uk)
Getting your writing into print.
Free eBook with every hard copy order!
If you run a writers’ group and would like an anthology of your members’ work, or if you’re a poet, short story writer, novelist or compiling your memoirs we think you’d find us jolly useful. The process is straightforward and easy to do. You send your work as a word doc and we do the rest including sending you a free pdf proof. If you have a photo you want to use for the cover we can include that in our cover design service or we can design an individual cover for your book.
The books we produce for you are just like the high quality we produce for our anthologies:
100gsm bookwove paper (that’s quite thick and classy)
Perfect bond (with a spine)
Glossy full colour cover
Free ISBN
Free Barcode
Free Legal Deposit service
We are now offering an eBook creation service where you can have your book turned into a pdf eBook ready for online reading.
Free eBook with every hard copy order!
Charges for Root Creation Printing Service
Up to 50 pages: (Often a poetry collection)
First 25 copies £6.00/copy + P&P
Further copies £5.00/copy + P&P (must be ordered in batches of 25)
Up to 100 pages: (Often a short story collection)
First 25 copies £6.50/copy + P&P
Further copies £5.50/copy + P&P (must be ordered in batches of 25)
Up to 150 pages: (Often a short story collection, memoirs or novella)
First 25 copies £7.50/copy + P&P
Further copies £6.50/copy + P&P (must be ordered in batches of 25)
Up to 200 pages: (Often a novel)
First 25 copies £8.00/copy + P&P
Further copies £7.00/copy + P&P (must be ordered in batches of 25)
(with no hard copy printing - NB free eBook with hard copy printing) - 50p per print page, £1 per artwork page. For example a 60 page poetry anthology would cost £30 and then the cover (2 pages artwork) would be £2.
contact me (Cecilia) with any questions or for more details
This includes layout, typesetting, a proof pdf, free ISBN and free Barcode.
Word documents supplied to us should be print-ready and fully proofed. If you would like us to proof them we can, but we do charge for that service.
NB there are usually about 300 words per page
Cover design –
- With artwork provided - £40 (that’s for making the cover print-ready with barcode, etc.)
Original design from our designer - £100
A choice of 3 designs from our designer - £200
The format we usually use is a Demi format (129mm x 198mm) gloss colour laminate cover, perfect bound, on 100gsm bookwove paper (that’s quite thick and classy). Most of our latest anthologies are in this format.
Printing service Style Sheet (tips for formatting your work ready to have it printed)
Examples of recently printed books:
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TRULY BLUE 'Thanks to...Cecilia, Sam |
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The Moon the Waves and the Breeze
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The Grail Writing Group A Collection of Stories and Poems, written to raise funds on behalf of The Alzheimer’s Society. 'The book looks great - well done you ' |
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Fourteen memories of childhood and twelve accounts of the same child coming as an adult to live on the Isle of Bute. Each story has been written by a member of the Bute Writers Group. 'It looks very good, all here pleased' |
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The Siren of Salamancaand Other Stories
'People who've seen the book so far say it looks great' |
Root Creations Website service
A page on our website – Free
A subdomain on our website with an original page design - £80 for example see Alice Blake's page
Your own domain (single page) with and original page design - £100
Extra pages - £20 each
Paypal facility (through Leaf Books) - £20 (if you are selling a book or something)
Book delivery service (where we take the orders and post the books for you) - £2/book (we charge your customers P&P)