How it works

One form. One day.
One book.

Everything we make follows the same path: you answer plain questions once, a purpose-built production system does the work, a human stands at every gate that matters, and your finished files arrive with instructions so clear that Amazon becomes the easy part.

The five stations

Left to right, every time.


Tell us about your book.

One form, in plain English, with an explanation beside anything that needs one. No publishing vocabulary required; where Amazon will eventually ask you something, we ask first and remember your answer. Pay at the end; work begins the moment payment clears.

The machine builds.

Your manuscript is typeset, your cover is composed and measured, your files are validated against Amazon's specifications — geometry computed, not eyeballed. Most projects are delivered within 24 hours.

Humans hold the gates.

Automated checks catch what machines catch; a person reviews what people should review. If something in your files needs your attention — a too-small image, a rights question — the machine emails you before building the wrong thing, not after.

Delivery.

Your finished files arrive by email with direct download links — and if your order includes the Amazon Upload Kit, every KDP question comes pre-answered with your book's actual values inline.

You publish. You own everything.

Your Amazon account, your royalties paid to you directly, your rights intact. We prepare; you place; nothing of yours ever routes through us. That boundary is a feature, and it's permanent.

The receipts

The machine's acceptance tests are real published books.


Perennial — cover front

Perennial — the house's first published book, built and published through this exact pipeline.

The Shipwright's Daughter — cover front

The Shipwright's Daughter — a 138-page illustrated novel, manuscript to live-on-Amazon in one night, paperback and Kindle.

We don't ship a service we haven't used to publish.

Most projects delivered within 24 hours

The press is warm.


Start your book

Questions? books@prontopublishing.com — a person reads every message.