Everything we do
The whole phone book
Every service in this studio, on one page, with the price in black and white — no “book a call to learn the price,” ever. Everything is delivered as finished digital files. And every service with a sample step works the same way: the sample costs a little, and every cent of it comes off the full job.
For Authors & Publishers
The Words Desk and the production studio behind it. You keep your own accounts, your own ISBN, and 100% of your rights and royalties — we are never your publisher. We are the desk that does the work, at published prices roughly half the going rate.
The Author Sample
A one-page critique of your first 10 pages and an edit of your first 1,000 words — the real work, on your real book, before you commit to anything bigger.
Delivered in 3 business days. The $25 comes off any Words Desk job you order — it is a deposit on real work, not a fee for looking.
Manuscript Critique
A full read of your book and a structured report: structure, voice, pacing, market fit, and a fix list ranked by what matters most.
Delivered in 5 business days. Start with the Author Sample — its $25 is credited here.
Developmental Edit
The structure-level edit: an editorial letter plus in-text notes and tracked changes on your own words.
An 80,000-word book takes about 10 business days. The exact total is confirmed in writing before we start — the rate never changes mid-job.
Copyedit
Sentence-level correctness and consistency, in tracked changes — plus a per-book style sheet (names, spellings, timeline) that carries across your series.
An 80,000-word book takes about 7 business days — most freelance editors quote three to six weeks.
Proofread
The final pass on your formatted book — typos, punctuation, and consistency, caught before readers see them. Copyedit and proofread together run 2.0¢/word.
Timing confirmed in writing after your sample, so the date is one we can keep.
Book Cover Design
A genre-correct cover built on licensed stock and real typography — never AI-illustrated — delivered as ebook, paperback wrap, and hardcover files.
Delivered in 5 business days. Sample: one concept direction for $19, credited in full.
Interior Formatting
Your manuscript turned into a clean, professional book interior: an ebook file and a print-ready PDF, with styled chapters, proofed on the rendered page.
Delivered in 5 business days, for books up to 100,000 words. Sample: your first chapter formatted for $25, credited in full.
Guided Self-Publishing Package
The whole production run for a finished manuscript: cover, formatting, ISBN guidance, setup on KDP and IngramSpark inside your own accounts, metadata, and a launch checklist.
Delivered in 15 business days from a clean manuscript. Start anywhere on this page — samples you have already paid for are credited here too.
Book Launch Kit
Everything around the launch, as finished files: announcement emails, a social graphics set, and a one-page author web page.
Timing agreed in writing when you order. A demo kit is on our site for the looking — looking is always free.
Book Description & Metadata
The sales copy for your book page: the description, the categories, and the keywords — researched from comparable titles, written to be found and to sell.
Delivered in 3 business days. Sample: your current description rewritten for $15, credited in full.
Series Bible & Continuity Check
Your series’ names, spellings, places, timeline, and voice rules captured in one document and checked across your published books — so book four matches book one.
Delivered in 7 business days. Sample: a mini-bible built from one chapter, $15, credited in full.
For Professionals & Firms
Documents that carry weight — with a lender, an investor, a client, or your own team. Written from questionnaires and your numbers; no interviews, no meetings, everything in writing.
Bank-Ready Business Plans
A complete lender-format plan: the narrative, sources & uses, and three-year projections with debt-service coverage. If a lender rejects it over its format, we rework it free until the format is accepted.
Delivered within 7 business days. Sample: a sample section — cover, executive summary, sources & uses — for $99, credited in full. We never promise a loan approval; no honest service can.
Pitch Deck Redesigns
Your investor deck rebuilt properly: a clear story in the right order, one idea per slide, and numbers presented so they read at a glance. PPTX and PDF.
Delivered in 4–5 days for a 12-slide deck. Sample: your three weakest slides redesigned for $49, credited in full.
SOP Packs for Small Businesses
Your key procedures written down properly: step-by-step documents plus one-page checklists your team can actually follow — so the business runs when you’re not in the room.
Timing agreed in writing when you order. Sample: your first procedure written up for $39, credited in full.
Podcast Episode Packs
One episode turned into a full content set: show notes with timestamps and pull quotes, a guest feature article, a newsletter issue, and ready-to-post social posts.
Delivered in 3 business days. Sample: one of your episodes packed for $29, credited in full toward the first full pack or a monthly plan.
The Professional’s Book
A short authority book — 80 to 120 pages — built from your own material through a written questionnaire program: drafted, produced, and set up in your account. The book you hand a prospect.
Delivered in 30 days from completed questionnaires, paid in stages — never all up front. Sample: Chapter 1 drafted from your answers for $149, credited in full.
Lead-Magnet Ebooks
A short, sharp ebook — 20 to 40 pages — built from your material, to give away for leads on your website. Written, designed, and delivered as a finished file.
Delivered in 10–20 business days. Sample: the outline and opening pages for $35, credited in full.
Virtual Staging
Your vacant listing photos, tastefully furnished — every image checked by a person for the warped walls and floating furniture that give cheap staging away. A “virtually staged” disclosure is supplied with every set, as California law requires.
Delivered in 24–48 hours. Sample: one room staged for $9, credited toward a listing set.
Wedding Album Design
For photographers: print-ready album layouts designed from your culled set, in your album company’s spec — the post-wedding bottleneck, gone.
Timing agreed in writing when you order. Sample: one spread designed for $15, credited in full.
For Restaurants, Pharmacies & Local Shops
The counter, the table, and the Google listing — the three places a local customer meets you. Full detail on the two biggest services lives on our Services page; everything we make for local shops is in this section.
Medicare Pharmacy Patient Packs
Five ready pieces — counter card, take-home handout, mailer postcard, patient email, and patient text — built from your own materials and federal facts, customized with your name, phone, hours, and logo, delivered as print-ready files.
Delivered within 2 business days. Sample: a preview of your own pack for $15, credited in full. (If we built a preview for your pharmacy and sent it to you ourselves, that one was on us — that’s our marketing, not a charge.)
Custom Patient Materials
The same five-piece treatment for any topic your patients keep asking about — flu season, new-year benefit reminders, vaccination drives.
Timing agreed in writing when you order. Sample: one piece of your pack previewed for $15, credited in full.
Restaurant QR Menus
Your full menu as a clean, phone-first page behind one QR code, plus the print-ready table-tent file and a printable paper menu. First year of hosting included; the code on your tables never changes.
Delivered within 3 business days. Sample: a preview of your own menu page for $19, credited in full — previews we build and send to restaurants ourselves stay free, as always.
Menu Updates & Menu Care
Price and item changes made behind the same QR code, live within one business day — the tents on your tables never need reprinting.
An add-on to the QR Menu. After year one, hosting renews at $49/year — included while you’re on Menu Care.
Print Menu Redesign
Your menu re-typeset properly — readable, well-organized, laid out to push the dishes that make you money — as a print-ready file, with a matching digital version.
Timing agreed in writing when you order. Sample: page one redesigned for $19, credited in full.
Google Listing Fix
Your Google Business Profile cleaned end to end: holiday hours set, regular hours verified day by day, categories and services corrected, your photos captioned, one post published — and a short written before/after report.
Done within a few business days. This is a cleanup, not a ranking service — we promise the listing itself will be accurate and complete, and we put that in writing. Sample: a written audit of your listing for $15, credited in full.
Google Profile Care Plan
The fix, kept fixed: every review answered within one business day, hours and details checked monthly, one Google post a month, and a one-line monthly report.
Month-to-month, cancel anytime with one email. Arranged after your Listing Fix — just ask.
Seasonal Campaign in a Box
A finished campaign for your store and your offer — three emails and two text messages, written for you. Copy only: you send them to your own list, from your own platform; we never touch your customer data.
Delivered within 3 business days of a complete intake. Our generic sample campaign is free to read; a sample written for your store is $15, credited in full.
For Sellers & Brands
The words on your listings and your store, written to the standard of the marketplaces your customers actually shop.
Amazon Listing Localization
Your English listings rewritten in natural, neutral Spanish for Amazon Mexico and Spain — title, bullets, description, and backend search terms, keyword-first, never machine translation. Files only; we never need access to your Seller Central account.
Packs delivered in about 5 business days. Sample: one listing localized — title plus bullets — for $15, credited in full. (Sellers we approached ourselves were offered their first listing free; that offer stands for them.)
Product Description Batches
Benefit-led, search-aware descriptions, titles, and meta lines for your Shopify or WooCommerce products — delivered in a file that’s ready to upload.
Timing agreed in writing when you order. Sample: your three weakest listings rewritten for $15, credited in full.
Sell Sheets & One-Pagers
A one-page sheet that makes your product or service easy to say yes to — written and designed here, delivered print-ready and screen-ready.
Delivered in 3 business days. Sample: the headline and layout draft for $15, credited in full.
Store Page Copy Refresh
The pages around your products — home, about, and one collection page — rewritten so the whole store sounds like one business that means it.
Delivered in 5 business days. Sample: one page rewritten for $25, credited in full.
For Life’s Big Moments
The occasions where the words have to be right the first time — because there is no second take at a wedding, a farewell, or a first interview.
Old Photo Restoration & Colourisation
Your family’s photographs, restored and brought back to colour: cracks, tears, scratches, stains, water damage, fading and sepia toning repaired; black-and-white portraits and family scenes colourised naturally; faded colour prints returned to their true colours; missing corners and torn edges rebuilt where the scene allows; photographer’s proof marks removed from your own family prints. Restoration and colourisation in one flat price — the named services charge $35 to $58 a photo, with colour usually extra. Six before/after restorations are on the services page for the looking.
Delivered as a print-ready digital file within 2 business days. Every face is checked by a person against your original before delivery — faces are never invented, and a face too damaged to restore honestly is refunded, not guessed. Your photos are deleted after delivery and never used for training. We restore photographs you own; we don’t remove watermarks from stock photos or anyone else’s copyrighted work. Packs: 3 for $39 · 5 for $59 · 10 for $99 · 20 for $179 — order any pack on the services page.
Wedding Speeches & Vows
A three-to-five-minute speech — best man, maid of honor, or parents — or a set of vows, written from your answers to a short story questionnaire: your stories, in your voice, funny in the right places and never at anyone’s expense.
Delivered within 5 days of your completed questionnaire, with revision rounds included. Sample: your first paragraph for $15, credited in full. (Found us through a wedding planner or Etsy? The free first paragraph you were promised there still stands.)
Guided Memoir
A parent’s or grandparent’s life story turned into a finished book of 60–100 pages, through a gentle written questionnaire program — drafted in their voice, family photos placed and captioned, produced and set up in your family’s own account, so you can order copies at print cost whenever you like.
Delivered in 30 days from completed questionnaires. Sample: one childhood chapter written for $49, credited in full.
Resume + LinkedIn Rewrite
An ATS-formatted resume (Word and PDF) and a rewritten LinkedIn summary, built from a questionnaire — no consultation call required.
Delivered in 3 days. Sample: a written review of your current resume — what’s working, what isn’t, what we’d change — for $25, credited in full.
For Churches, Schools & Community Groups
Books and newsletters that hold a community’s memory — and, for fundraisers, earn real money with zero inventory, because copies are printed only when someone orders one.
Fundraiser Cookbooks
Your congregation’s or school’s recipes, collected properly — we run the collection system and the patient chasing — then edited, laid out, and set up print-on-demand in your organization’s name. Copies cost about $4–5.50 to print, so a cookbook you sell at $15–20 carries real fundraiser margin.
Delivered in 30 days from your contribution deadline. Sample: one recipe section collected and laid out for $49, credited in full.
Community Anthologies & Local-History Books
Your town’s, school’s, or organization’s stories, poems, and memories — up to 40 contributions — edited for consistency and made into one proper book, set up the same way.
Delivered in 30 days from your contribution deadline. Sample: one section edited and laid out for $49, credited in full.
Community Newsletters
Your church, school, or association newsletter written up from your notes and typeset properly — delivered as a print-ready file and a screen version your members can read anywhere.
Each issue delivered in 5 business days. Sample: your first issue at $49, credited toward a four-issue run.
For Businesses That Need Paperwork Done
Chases, documents, workbooks, and forms — the unglamorous work that has to be exactly right, done patiently and in writing.
Stuck Solar — the PTO Chase
Our sister service for homeowners whose solar system is installed on the roof but has never been switched on. We find exactly where the project is stuck, name who owes the next step, and chase it in writing until the system is live.
The audit is free — this is the service our whole sample standard is modeled on: free to look, a small step to open the work, and the rest only when the job is done.
Document Typesetting & Formatting
Your report, manual, handbook, or long document rebuilt as a clean, properly typeset, print-ready file — real typography, every page checked by a reader’s eye, not just a spellchecker.
Timing agreed in writing when you order. Sample: your first pages typeset for $15, credited in full.
Spreadsheet Cleanup & Rebuild
A messy workbook turned into a clean, working one: consistent entries, totals that add up, and a written list of every change we made. We never silently “fix” a number — if something doesn’t make sense, we ask.
Delivered in 2–3 business days. Sample: one sheet cleaned for $15, credited in full.
Forms, Checklists & Templates
The forms your business runs on — intake forms, checklists, questionnaires — designed clean and delivered as fillable, reusable files.
Delivered in 2–3 business days. Sample: one form redesigned for $15, credited toward any order of $99 or more.
How samples work
Free to look. A small step to open the work.
Every price on this page is the real price — that’s the flag this studio flies. Where a service has a sample, it works like this: you pay a small sample fee, we do real work on your job, and if you go ahead, every cent of the sample comes off the full price. If you don’t, you keep the sample — it’s yours.
After delivery, our remedy is generous revisions, not refunds — a delivered file is yours to keep and use. A refund applies only when we fail: we miss the date we promised, we don’t deliver, or the work ignores what you asked for and a revision can’t fix it. Cancel before work begins and anything you’ve paid comes back in full.