AUTHOR HELP AND SERVICES
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Explore the guides, choose a focused service, or ask about another publishing task. Our focused services are starting points, rather than a limit on what you can enquire about.
We will confirm whether we can help and agree the work before you commit. You keep your rights, royalties, publishing accounts and ISBN choices.
The Mystic Publishing imprint
The Mystic Publishing imprint publishes Raz Mihal's books. It does not accept outside submissions for publication.
Our consultancy and author services help independent authors move their own projects forward, with any paid work agreed separately.
Author Help Finder
Search for a title, subject or publishing problem. Narrow the results by stage and help type, with goal and topic available when useful. Results update as you choose.
Free guide
AI in Publishing: Useful Servant, Dangerous Master
AI can accelerate supporting work. It cannot carry responsibility for authorship, rights, facts, consent or the final promise made to a reader.
Professional service
Author Website and Book Landing Page
A book landing page or a small author website with clear reader actions, responsive checks and an editable handover. Written quotation after scope.
Free guide
Before You Pay an Editor, Designer or Publishing Service
Paying too early is one of the most expensive mistakes in independent publishing. Prepare the manuscript, brief, rights and decision points first.
Free guide
Book Metadata: How Readers, Retailers and Libraries Find the Right Edition
Metadata is the book's trade language. If it is incomplete, contradictory or promotional in the wrong fields, discovery and ordering become harder.
Free guide
Editing Spiritual and Mystical Books Without Flattening the Mystery
Clarity does not kill mystery. It gives the reader enough ground to enter difficult spiritual work without being manipulated or left behind.
Free guide
How Small Publishers Compete Without Pretending to Be Large
A small press cannot outspend a conglomerate. It can make sharper choices, protect trust and build a catalogue whose standards are visible in every edition.
Free guide
How to Launch a Book Without Making Noise for the Wrong Readers
A launch is not a loud day. It is a controlled period in which the book becomes easy to understand, trust, buy and recommend.
Free guide
ISBNs, Imprints and Legal Deposit: A UK Publisher’s Guide
ISBNs do not protect copyright or create sales. They identify editions, connect book-trade records and make the publisher's administrative choices visible.
Free guide
KDP, IngramSpark or Both? A Practical Distribution Strategy
KDP and IngramSpark are not rival belief systems. They are tools for different sales channels, and many serious independent publishers use both.
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Tell us about your publishing project
Ask about a publishing decision, a practical task or support for your next stage. Your enquiry does not have to fit one of the three services listed here.
Start with a brief overview of your book, its stage and the help you need. Please do not send full manuscripts, unpublished chapters or sensitive contractual information. There is no fee to enquire. We confirm whether we can help and agree scope, deliverables, total price and timing in writing before paid work begins.