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Merlin International’s Full Color Manuscripts
Promoting Your Book to Traditional Publishers:
If you are a new author or unknown illustrator you will need
to promote your work to a publisher. Merlin International can
help you get the attention of your prospective publishers by printing
eye-catching full color manuscripts at a reasonable cost.
The days of manuscripts with boring sheets of paper with double-spaced
and dull manuscripts without illustrations, photos or drawings
are a thing of the past. Merlin International’s manuscripts look
like books. In fact, they are prototype books with four-color
soft covers, single-spaced lines, words that may be set to bold
and headers with page numbers. This is one of the specialized
products Merlin International can provide.
The market is not easy for a self-publishing author to enter;
it is designed for the more seasoned writer. Let Merlin International
show you how to break into the market with additional self-promotional
aids that we can produce in conjunction with your book.
Sample Types of Books
 Individuals
- Self help
- How-to books
- Family tree
- Instructional
- Novels
- Journals
Business
- Training manuals
- Directories
- Monthly publication booklets
- Case bound proposals
- Instruction booklets
- Presentation materials (books, slides, posters, invitations)
- Binder books
Publishing Firms
Medical Publishing
- Manuals - training & research
- Booklets
- Directories
- Paper back
- Hard bound
- Presentation books
- Press kits
 Educational
- Short-run yearbooks
- Booklets
- Graphic Arts classes
- Student training manuals
- Special program books
- Writing course projects
Student
- Phone cards
- Lunch pass
- Bus pass
- Business cards
 Specialty
Books
- Children's full color books
- Church books
- Photo books
- Cookbooks
- Full color promotional books
- Historical publications
- Rare book reprints
- Capabilities books
- Small catalogs
Self-Publishing
The urge to self publish has become a national preoccupation.
There is a somewhat romantic notion, especially in the children’s
market, that telling some long kept story to the world (perhaps
on Oprah) would be akin to winning the lottery.
In addition, people will finally know how you feel or what you
are passionate about. This is one of the basic premises of the
self-publishing genre, the need to be heard. This characteristic
creates a highly motivated consumer/vendor.
The Problem
An estimated 750,000 manuscripts are submitted each year for
review. At best, only 10% of them see ink. Because a publishing
house invests up front at their own risk in print cost, marketing
and distribution, few would-be authors realize that 3-15% is standard
writer’s take. Turn around time is a minimum of 18 to 24 months.
Well-seasoned publishers and editors admit that they cannot always
recognize what will sell well. Recently, untraditional, unpredicted,
highly resonant products (e.g. Celestine Prophesy, Sisters, and
Harry Potter) have started trends. Each took a different path,
each were driven to create success.
The Solution
Any venture requires time and money. Merlin International provides
the digital self-publishing technology that assists the author
in meeting shortened timelines while maintaining an affordable
financial budget.
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