What you receive

Every deliverable, listed.

Casover is priced step by step, so you should know exactly what each step hands you. This page lists every deliverable across the journey, from the first read of the manuscript to the 30 days after launch. Everything is produced in your name, and everything is yours to keep.

The journey at a glance

Four stages. A decision after each one.

Stage one – the critique

Manuscript critique and revision plan. £295.

£375 for 80,000 to 120,000 words. The whole manuscript, not a sample, and everything below in writing.

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A full written critique covering structure, character and voice, theme, sentence-level craft and genre fit

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An ordered revision plan: what to fix first, what matters less, what to leave alone

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A publishing route recommendation, with the reasoning behind it

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An honest read on the readers you can realistically reach, and the risks specific to this book

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Suggested categories and keywords, and a recommended retail price in pounds

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Once you have revised, a follow-up critique of the same manuscript is £145, or £185 over 80,000 words

The Publisher's Pack – £145

Publisher-grade copy, ready to use.

Five pieces produced from the finished manuscript, ready for retailer pages, the cover and marketing. Included in the Book Ready and Complete Journey packages, or added to any critique.

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A publisher-style review of the book, 200 to 350 words, with quotable pull-lines for marketing use

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A full synopsis, written to professional submission standard

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A short synopsis written for the back cover

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Chapter subtitles that give the contents page shape and pull readers forward

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A publisher's foreword positioning the book and its author

Design and production

A book that looks like it came from a publisher.

Craft decisions made deliberately, recorded, and approved by you before anything is spent.

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Cover and book package – £245: reader positioning, comparable-title evidence, cover direction and a designer-ready brief for the full book package

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Interior layout, print and ebook – £145: production-checked interior files for print and ebook, with proof and release controls

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Commissioned cover artwork – from £500, quoted per project: original illustration or bespoke cover art by a commissioned designer, with exclusive rights in the artwork yours

Publication and launch

From finished files to a live, selling book.

Accounts in your name, decisions recorded, and a launch run to a written plan rather than hope.

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Metadata, categories and keywords – £125: a controlled metadata master built for this book rather than the genre in general

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Retailer setup and upload – £95: KDP as the Amazon core, with wider routes added where the evidence justifies them

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Amazon A+ Content – £95: enhanced product-page content for the book's Amazon listing

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Launch plan and pre-order setup – £195: a week-by-week workbook covering pre-orders, supporters, advance readers, review activity, press, email and social content

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Ads setup and 30-day results review – £245: campaigns configured and measured, with a written review of what the first month actually did

The author platform

An owned platform, when the evidence supports it.

Casover builds the smallest justified web foundation first, in your name from day one.

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Author landing page – £395: a single page on your own domain with email signup, pre-order or buy links, author bio and press section

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You own the domain, the hosting account and the reader list. Casover never holds them for you

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A full author website, CRM or checkout is quoted individually once the audience evidence justifies the spend

Packages

Three ways to take it as a whole.

Book Ready – £945

Line and copy edit, proofread, cover and book package, interior layout, and the Publisher's Pack included. £1,145 for 80,000 to 120,000 words.

Launch Ready – £695

Metadata and keywords, retailer setup, Amazon A+ Content, launch plan with pre-order setup, and ads setup with the 30-day results review.

Complete Journey – £1,795

The critique plus both packages, from manuscript assessment to launch. £2,095 for 80,000 to 120,000 words. Paid stage by stage, and you can stop at any point.

Packages are still delivered and paid one stage at a time, and you can stop at any point and keep everything completed so far.

Value for money

What the alternatives cost.

The numbers make more sense alongside the routes most authors are offered.

A traditional deal

Nothing upfront, but the publisher keeps the rights and most of the royalties for the life of the book. Few manuscripts are ever offered one.

Assisted self-publishing

Legitimate UK packages covering editing, design and distribution typically run £1,000 to £5,000. Copy-editing alone is commonly around £850 for a 90,000-word novel.

The Casover way

The Complete Journey is £1,795 to £2,095 depending on length, priced stage by stage. You keep the rights, the accounts, the readers and every royalty.

A sensible next step

Tell us where your book stands.

Start with the manuscript, the ambition, the readers and any audience access you already have. We will tell you plainly which route fits and what should happen next.

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Managed publishing

Casover Publishing

Independent publishing, properly managed.

One governed publishing method, from manuscript assessment to launch. You own the accounts, rights, platform and readership.

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Casover Publishing is a trading name of Draft2Book LLP, a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales, partnership number OC455633. Registered office: Unit C5, Welland Business Park, Valley Way, Market Harborough, LE16 7PS, United Kingdom.