A B O U T I Q U E P U B L I S H I N G S T U D I O

Your story, safely held.

The most personal stories are the hardest to hand over. They carry a truth that took courage to tell, and they need someone who understands the responsibility of being trusted with it. Ameline is a boutique publishing studio for those stories, and for those brave enough to tell them.

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Ameline Books is a boutique studio that helps you turn your life's story, or part of it, into a beautifully made book — entirely on your own terms. You bring a finished manuscript, and from there we work through it together, step by step.

That means a careful edit and proofread that strengthen your voice rather than change it, a cover made for your story, and all the technical work you've been dreading — formatting, ISBN, barcode, and a home of your own online where readers come to you directly, with no one else in between.

Nothing is decided for you. You keep the final say on every choice, from the first edit to the last.

There are two packages to choose from, starting at $4,900. Whichever you choose, everything comes home to you: your name on the cover, your rights, your royalties, your readers. No one takes a cut of your life's work.

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“The quality of the writing, editing and proofreading was impeccable, catching every tiny error while preserving my unique voice.

While at times the journey to the end product was overwhelming, Cass allowed me to air my fears, always transparent with her suggestions and with gentle guidance and dedication bringing this book to life.”

— Catherine Van Nesch, author of I didn't want to be a saint

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Questions
What kind of books do you take?Non-fiction. If you've written the true story of a life or an experience, yours or someone else's, that's the work I do.
Why do you call it a publishing studio, and not a publisher?Because a publisher, by definition, takes ownership of your ISBN, and with it a share of your rights and royalties. I'm not willing to do that to your work. Ameline Books gives you the publishing services that help you self-publish, the editing, the design, the technical craft, while the book itself stays entirely yours. Your ISBN, your rights, your royalties, your name. That's the line the whole studio is built on.
How is this different from publishing it myself?You're not left alone with a hundred technical decisions and no one to read the work with care. It's a supported, hands-on process, and you keep everything you'd have kept doing it alone. The ownership is the same. The isolation isn't.
How are you different from other publishing services?It's built on author sovereignty. You keep full control and every royalty, every right stays yours, right down to your book reaching readers through a home of your own rather than Amazon. It belongs to you, completely. I take on only a small number of books at a time, so the work stays craft rather than volume. And I stay close to you through all of it, the human side as much as the technical. I can hold the hard chapters alongside the good ones.
Do you take on every book?No, and that's deliberate. Each manuscript is read in full before we decide together whether it's the right home for it. It's about fit, whether the book and I are right for each other, never a judgment on the story itself.
I'm ready to get started. What do I do?Write to me. The first step is just a conversation. You tell me about your book and what it's been to write, and I'll walk you through how it all works. There's no commitment in reaching out.

Your book, and what comes next

If you have a manuscript, or the beginnings of one, and you've been wondering where it goes from here, this is where it starts. There's no commitment in it. You fill in a few details about your book, and we find a time to talk it through properly.

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