EDITING/PUBLISHING SERVICES
PUBLISHING SERVICES OFFERED BY SILVIN BOOKS & PRODUCTIONS
A) Publishing Services
Ghost Writing
Our team can write your entire book. Working with you, we will assist with identifying the exact nature of the Work after clearly defining its goal and purpose. Once appropriate interviews are conducted and research material is analyzed, a specific time frame to complete the project will be determined.
The vast majority of people who want to tell a story, be it about their lives (memoire) or an object (eg house or business) have not enunciated the goal of the project (personal or commercial)
Many people have a compelling story to tell. The question then becomes: Have they realistically understood the amount of time writing a memoire takes. Still others may not have writing skills to bring their project to fruition.
We will work with you, the client, to identify and verbalize your future book’s goals. Is the Work’s target audience family, close friends and descendants, or a broader audience? Or is the goal to create a Work that has potential commercial value and therefore needs to target a much broader audience? The answers to such questions determine the format, length and required style of the Work.
After a realistically achievable goal is established, the Client needs to understand the amount of time the project will take and whether or not their writing skills are of sufficient quality to satisfy the project’s goals.
After establishing the project’s goals and its target audience, our team can analyze the Client’s writing skills. At that point the Client has the option to write his or her book, attend the appropriate classes to improve their skills or ask Silvin Books to ghost write the Work.
Silvin Books has the ability to conduct the necessary interviews with the Author, his or her friends and family and/or research the Work’s topic.
Editing
A complete array of editing services is available. These are:
- Line editing: Correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.
- Style editing: Check for word and idea repetitions and verify easy and logical paragraph flow.
- Content editing: Verify that the text clearly expresses the Author’s intent.
Formatting/Creative Direction
Using advanced programs the team can format the book using appropriate styling, fonts and proper and artistic insertion of pictures and other graphics to compliment the text.
Silvin Books specializes in the creation of “coffee table” books. Our Creative Director will handle the proper, artistic placement of high quality pictures, maps or other graphics into the text to maximize “visual appeal” and maximum impact. Font type and size, choice of cover, jacket and paper quality will be identified and approved by the Client. Cost implication for each decision will be explained.
Printing
Cost effective, quality-printing services are available, resulting in a specific number of finished Works delivered to the location of your choice.
Our team is experienced in working with high quality printing companies. The choice of printing company has varying cost and speed to delivery implications. Once the Client is made aware of these options the specific costs are explained based on which printing company is selected and the quantity of books required. Silvin Books then works with the printing company to verify their ability to deliver a quality product, and will monitor and execute the various phases each project requires before the presses begin to print.
Sales, warehousing and shipping
The book can be placed in local or regional bookstores with which we will keep an on-going relationship to replenish their stock as needed and collect proceed on your behalf. We can upload the book to Amazon.com and/or other distribution networks. We will monitor sales, receive the orders, and mail books, while managing the proceeds.
Depending on the Client’s requirements, Silvin Books is able to secure the appropriate location to receive and store the Client’s completed books. Books will be carefully analyzed to determined if any printing errors occurred and if any books have been damaged during shipping. Ongoing services to deliver and/or ship books are available, including handling on-line orders, delivery of books to bookstores or mailings to family and friends.
B) Public Relations Services
Social Media
Bringing the Work to a large audience includes the use of FaceBook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram to create a digital footprint. The Team can:
- Set up the initial social media pages.
- Build upon already existing pages.
- Offer on-going monitoring of the different social media to attract specifically identified audiences.
- Webpage Design and Maintenance
We can design and create an attention-grabbing Web Page, which describes the Work’s intent, includes the Author’s biography, captivating excerpts and links to Author speeches and avenues to purchase the book(s).
Wikipedia Preparation
To promote the author, a proper Wikipedia page can be created.
PowerPoint Development
If your goal is to lecture about the book, we can develop the accompanying PowerPoint. This presentation will be developed to create a visually attractive and creative support for the lecture, which should in turn promote both the Author and their Work.
Lecture Assistance
There are several functions offered:
- Assistance with preparations for a presentation, including rehearsing the speech and using the PowerPoint as an aide to enhance the lecture.
- Outreach to arrange lecture opportunities.
- Accompany you to a lecture venue and provide technical assistance.
BELOW ARE BOOKS THAT SILVIN BOOKS PUBLISHED OR WAS INVOLVED WITH IN THE DEVELOPMENT
MUDDLING THROUGH THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION by ALBERT PODELL
Albert Podell is one of the finest non-fiction writers working in America today, and Muddling is the epitome of his engaging style. Small wonder that Booklist held that “his writing is breathtaking” and that leading feminist scholar Sylia Law declared that “I love this groundbreaking book about our sexual revolution. Serious, funny, brave. Works on many levels: vital social history, remarkable memoir, a hilarious sexual romp. Fabulous! “
Muddling is easily the most entertaining, enlightening, humorous, and fascinating sexual memoir out there. It’s also the first book written about the Sexual Revolution by someone who lived it and loved it, and Podell lets it all hang out in delicious detail from the enshrined female virginity of the frigid Fifties, to banging the baloney, college panty raids, frottage, his editorship at Playboy, sharing Hefner’s social philosophy and some of his girlfriends, the vibrator, the Pill, the ERA, Roe v. Wade, open marriage, sex of every sort, threesomes and foursomes, Studio 54, Plato’s Retreat, mate swapping, some eighty extraordinary personal bedroom sexploits, and on to the liberated era of personal ads, escort services, the Eastern European invasion, paid “arrangements,” Sugar Babies, and the #MeToo Movement.
His previous book was a New York Times and Amazon best seller, and there’s no reason why Muddling should not find an even wider and more adoring readership.
BETWEEN THE LINES - WHERE MAGIC RESIDES by LINDA L. SCHMITT
Executives competing in today’s constantly changing, increasingly fragmented and polarized world need trustworthy and skilled between the lines connectors to help their enterprises achieve and sustain world class performance. The capacity of an organization to become aware of and fill this gap begins with the Executive’s decision to trust and value the aspiring between the lines Connector and for the Connector to take responsibility for her/his experiential development with the support of the Executive to whom she/he reports.
The purpose of Linda L. Schmitt’s story is to meaningfully transfer to aspiring between the lines connectors her unique, multi-transformational twenty-two year learning curve as part of the same global corporation. Her passionate desire is to reveal and help them internalize in their own way the golden nuggets she discovered over time in her role as Executive Assistant to three successive CEO’s with fundamentally different leadership characteristics and temperaments.
BIENVENIDO - THE BIRD-WATCHING CAT by KEVIN L.S. DRURY
A hardcover children’s bird-watching book. Bienvenido the Bird-watching Cat introduces common backyard birds and their typical behaviors, through a charming story. Test your knowledge with 9 memory games while practicing counting. This is a superb quality children’s book with a glossy hardcover and 72 pages of content on heavyweight, glossy pages, that include 160 high resolution photos. It makes an ideal gift for families and classrooms. While learning backyard birds, learn Bienvenido’s 10 axioms: 1) behave nicely 2) try hard 3) be busy 4) embrace uniqueness 5) share nicely 6) solve problems 7) be orderly 8) be helpful 9) eat well (but not worms!) 10) explore curiously.
MY FIRST 83 YEARS by PAUL NOBLE
Muhammad Ali, Lucille Ball, Mikhail Baryshnikov, John Belushi, Bill Boggs, Alan Burke, Marc Chagall, Richard Chamberlain, Nora Ephron, David Frost, Arthur Godfrey, Laurence Harvey, Andy Kaufman, John F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Matt Lauer, Mayor John Lindsay, Edward R. Murrow, David Niven, Carroll O’Connor, Christopher Plummer, Gregory Peck, Gilda Radner, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Adlai Stevenson, Margaret Truman, Vivian Vance, Mike Wallace, “Dr. Ruth’ Westheimer, and many more.Five-time Emmy award-winning television producer Paul Noble has worked with them all – and countless other celebrities, artists, authors, and dignitaries. Now, Noble tells the fascinating, charming, and often hilarious behind-the-scenes-stories of his forty-five-year career in American TV from his beginnings with Eleanor Roosevelt…what the famous told him – and didn’t tell the public – will both surprise you and reveal much about the most influential media the world has ever known.Paul Noble, a Queens, NY native and Cornell University graduate, has produced Eleanor Roosevelt’s television show; Bishop Fulton J. Sheen’s program; “Midday Live” and numerous other programs. After retiring from Lifetime Television where he chose movies, he moved to Palm Beach, Florida, with his wife, Paulette Cooper Noble.Paulette Cooper Noble is the author of 26 books, over 1,000 articles, and has won 9 writing awards.
BATTLEFIELD SCIENTOLOGY - EXPOSING L. RON HUBBARD'S DANGEROUS "RELIGION" by TONY ORTEGA and PAULETTE COOPER
“Battlefield Scientology: Exposing L.Ron Hubbard’s Dangerous Religion” contains 33 articles (& over 50 photos) from Tony Ortega’s popular blog (“The Underground Bunker) with intros to the 5 sections by Paulette Cooper (“The Scandal of Scientology.” )
At last two of the best-known Scientology exposé writers team up to tell the whole story… from Scientology celebrities, (and how the church uses and abuses them) to the Sea Org (Scientology’s highest level where members who join sign billion-year-contracts to work for them throughout their entire lives) to mysterious deaths, to fair game (from the viewpoint of the attackers as well as the victims) to how Hubbard got some of his (weirder) ideas, to Scientology today (including signs of their decline) and much more.
This book was written for people who (think they) know just about everything there is to know about Scientology, to those who know nothing; the stories range from early Hubbard to what is happening today. The chapters were chosen to appeal not only to former Scientologists, but also never-Scientologists, as well as to people who never bought a single book of theirs to those who spent most of their lives [and some believe, even their past lives] in it.
The 360+ pages and photos reflect not only that what’s interesting, but also what’s important in understanding what has happened in this church, right down to what’s happening today.
Tony Ortega has been chronicling events in Scientology since the early ‘90’s and Paulette Cooper wrote the first major exposé of Scientology (“The Scandal of Scientology”) in 1968. She then spent the next 15 years exposing them while they went after her with vengeance. This is chronicled in Tony’s first book, “The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.”
DOG SECRETS: FUN & FASCINATING THINGS YOUR DOG WANTS YOU TO KNOW by PAULETTE COOPER NOBLE
This pill may make your dog live longer – How to stop your dog from barking at the TV – Meghan Markle abandoned her dog – Does your dog need plastic surgery? – When your dog loves a family member more that you (and how to steal him away) – The scoop on poop (and how it’s used as a secret military device) – How to tell if your pet got into the pot – Should your dog be on the wagon? – Why do dogs keep eating TV remote controls? – Celebrity mistreatment of their dogs – The dog who accidentally ordered porn – Dogs who look like celebrities – How O.J. Simpson’s dog proved he did it – Dogs are cleaner than men’s beards – Weird web sites – Sex and single dog – Stinky stuff – Why your dog’s feet smell like corn chips (& is it safe for your dog to lick your feet?) – Dogfishing: posting with dogs that aren’t yours on social media – Dog kickstarted campaigns – Common things you didn’t realize could kill your dog – Is it safe to smooth a pooch? – How to kiss a dog you don’t know well – There’s really no such thing as a hypoallergenic dog – Your dog can be allergic to you – Dogs who don’t bark a lot – Dog breeds whose names you’re probably pronouncing wrong – Can dogs tell if you’ve had sex? (And do they care?)Plus over 150 photos.
Published Works By René Silvin Available For Purchase
All That Glitters Is Not Gold
the Tragic Story of the Most Majestic Liner
Villa Mizner, The House That Changed Palm Beach
The Duchess of Windsor as I Knew Her
All that glitters is not gold