Publishing Support
Ready to Bring Your Book to Life?
You may have an idea you want to shape or a draft that needs direction. You may also have a book that is almost ready to publish. DQ Consulting, LLC helps you see where your work stands, what it needs, and what should come next. The help you get fits your goal, your readers, and your stage.
Who This Service Supports
You may have an idea you have not been able to organize, a draft you are not sure how to finish, or a project you started and had to set aside. This service is for new and seasoned authors. It is also for speakers, teachers, coaches, and business owners who want a book that supports their work. You do not have to be a writer by trade. Many people have a story or message worth sharing, and we help you turn it into a book. Some authors also want their book as an audiobook or with a companion workbook so it reaches more readers. If you are writing while working full time, or you have already had some help and still have questions, that is okay. Wherever your project stands, there is a clear next step, and we can help you find it.
Where Is Your Book Right Now?
Developing an Idea
Developing or Structuring a Book
Developing or Structuring a Book
Give Your Idea a Clear Purpose
You may know what you want to say, but need help turning it into something you can build on. We help you get clear on your purpose, your readers, and your direction, so you have a strong start.
Dr. TAS Tip: Write down who your book is for before you write chapter one. That one answer will guide every choice
Give Your Idea a Clear Purpose
You may know what you want to say, but need help turning it into something you can build on. We help you get clear on your purpose, your readers, and your direction, so you have a strong start.
Dr. TAS Tip: Write down who your book is for before you write chapter one. That one answer will guide every choice that follows.
Not sure yet if your idea should be a book, a talk, or a course? Media Visibility helps you shape your message first.
Developing or Structuring a Book
Developing or Structuring a Book
Developing or Structuring a Book
Build the Plan Before You Write
A book needs more than a topic. You may need help deciding what belongs in the book, what order it goes in, and how each part helps your readers. We help you build a plan before you spend more time writing or rewriting.
Dr. TAS Tip: Give each chapter one main job. If a chapter is trying to do three things
Build the Plan Before You Write
A book needs more than a topic. You may need help deciding what belongs in the book, what order it goes in, and how each part helps your readers. We help you build a plan before you spend more time writing or rewriting.
Dr. TAS Tip: Give each chapter one main job. If a chapter is trying to do three things, it may need to become three chapters.
Writing a book to grow your business or get more invitations to speak? Author Support helps you plan how your book will work for you after it is published.
Strengthening a Manuscript
Developing or Structuring a Book
Strengthening a Manuscript
See What Your Draft Needs
You may have part or all of a manuscript and not be sure what is working, what is not, or what needs attention next. We can review your manuscript and point out what will make it clearer, smoother, and easier to read.
Dr. TAS Tip: Fix the big picture before you pay for proofreading. Then edit in order, with lin
See What Your Draft Needs
You may have part or all of a manuscript and not be sure what is working, what is not, or what needs attention next. We can review your manuscript and point out what will make it clearer, smoother, and easier to read.
Dr. TAS Tip: Fix the big picture before you pay for proofreading. Then edit in order, with line editing first, copy editing next, and proofreading last.
Need a bio for your back cover? Author Materials under Author Support includes your author bio.
Preparing to Publish
Turning Your Materials Into a Book
Strengthening a Manuscript
Know Your Choices Before You Upload
Finishing your manuscript is a big step, and there are still choices to make. You will decide how to publish, write your book description, and get your ISBN. An ISBN is the number that identifies your book in stores and libraries.
Dr. TAS Tip: Buy your own ISBN in your name or your company's name. A f
Know Your Choices Before You Upload
Finishing your manuscript is a big step, and there are still choices to make. You will decide how to publish, write your book description, and get your ISBN. An ISBN is the number that identifies your book in stores and libraries.
Dr. TAS Tip: Buy your own ISBN in your name or your company's name. A free one from a publishing site can usually be used only on that site.
Thinking about what happens after your book comes out? Author Support helps you plan your promotion, materials, and events.
Turning Your Materials Into a Book
Turning Your Materials Into a Book
Turning Your Materials Into a Book
We Handle the Process for You
You may have sermons, speeches, blog posts, or notes and no time to turn them into a book. With Turnkey Book Publishing, we organize your materials and build your table of contents and manuscript. We also arrange your editing and cover and upload your book to Amazon KDP and IngramSpark.
Dr. TAS Tip: Before
We Handle the Process for You
You may have sermons, speeches, blog posts, or notes and no time to turn them into a book. With Turnkey Book Publishing, we organize your materials and build your table of contents and manuscript. We also arrange your editing and cover and upload your book to Amazon KDP and IngramSpark.
Dr. TAS Tip: Before you sign with any publishing company, ask who will own your book’s rights and ISBN. The answer should be you.
Want to be ready for interviews when your book comes out? Author Support helps you prepare.
REACHING READERS WHO LISTEN
Turning Your Materials Into a Book
Turning Your Materials Into a Book
Turn Your Book Into an Audiobook
Many people listen to books while they drive, work, or rest. An audiobook lets your story reach them in your own voice or in another voice that fits your book. You can work directly with our audiobook partner, have us manage the project from start to finish, or have Dr. TAS narrate it.
Dr. TAS Tip: Read o
Turn Your Book Into an Audiobook
Many people listen to books while they drive, work, or rest. An audiobook lets your story reach them in your own voice or in another voice that fits your book. You can work directly with our audiobook partner, have us manage the project from start to finish, or have Dr. TAS narrate it.
Dr. TAS Tip: Read one chapter aloud, record it on your phone, and listen back the next day. If it sounds like you talking to a friend, you may be the right voice for your book.
Ready to tell people about your audiobook? Author Support can add it to your Book Promotion Plan.
Why Work With Dr. TAS
When you work with Dr. TAS, you work with someone who has published her own books. They range from her life story, STRONGER, to Edit Like a Pro, which teaches her editing system in three steps. She is the Executive Editor of Conversations Magazine and also writes for it, and she is an editor for ChosenPen. She knows the writing side, the editing side, and the publishing side, so she can help you see what your book needs at every step. Every book takes its own path from idea to finished pages. A memoir, a parable, a cookbook, and a guide each need a different structure, and Dr. TAS has written and published each kind. See the books she has written.
