It may be that you need a space to house your books. Perhaps you would like someone else to fulfill orders from your website and social media. Often authors are interested in options for national distribution of their book or books. It can be beneficial to have your book’s information entered into the global metadata feed. Pathway Book Services in Keene, New Hampshire, is a trusted provider of all these services and more. We will provide contacts for advantageous agreements with Pathway as well as provide advisement as regards your potential investment in their services. Learn more at PathwayBookServices.net.

A dozen years ago, our independent publishing company hired a consultant to help us pinpoint a few reasonable ways to grow our D2C sales and outreach, seeking ROI within a tight budget. The consultant we worked with was Julie Trelstad, and her advice yielded results via mediums we could successfully leverage for over a decade. Whether entering the mainstream book market or a niche space, her coaching can help you choose where and how to spend ad dollars and how to be savvy (yet true to yourself) in a world crowded with competitors. Find out more at PaperbacksandPixels.com.

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We know our books “need” to be available on Amazon, but it is a world run by bots and algorithms, with few opportunities for human guidance. The team at Hatfield Solutions worked many years in traditional publishing before offering their expertise as consultants. Hatfield Solutions specializes in helping publishers and authors determine their best course of action when it comes to advertising and selling on Amazon Marketplace. Learn more HERE.

Dirt Roads LLC provides guidance in choosing which post-publication resources are right for you and your book, and how much to invest where, based on our decades of experience in the business. We are happy to help you strategize how best to use the specialists on this page. Contact Martha Cook (mcook@dirtroadspublishingservices.com) to find out more.