Services

LightSpeed Publishing, Inc. provides publishers with a reliable, cost-efficient way to produce books, documentation, periodicals, and more. From developing titles and subject matter to writing, acquiring authors, managing projects, and complete production services, LightSpeed Publishing will do it all—or any of it—for you. You’ll get the content you desire, the look and feel you seek, and the deadlines you set, all with professional attention to every detail of your forthcoming publication.

Packaging

Take advantage of LightSpeed’s complete packaging services. We’ll put together your publications from initial concept to delivering “camera-ready” files on disc. Let us bring new titles and ideas to your publishing program, or we’ll take your own concepts, develop them, find authors, manage, and edit them. We’ll deliver a polished final draft, fully-produced pages, or electronic files.

Project Management

Our services let you farm out the specific responsibilities normally performed by in-house project editors and production coordinators. We have years of experience at managing authors and we retain a top-notch group of contractors to get the job done. We’ll provide and supervise the services you need to make your publications sparkle!

Editing and Development

Our editing services span the gamut, including development, content, and copyediting. A tight developmental edit focuses the author, contributes to a strong publication, and prevents problems later on in the production cycle. Our content editors make sure the subject matter is presented in a logical and easy-to-follow manner. And there’s nothing more hated than typographical errors–we pride ourselves on being “typo busters.”

Writing and Author Acquisition

A solid publication begins with enthusiastic and reliable authors. Whether you need a book, an article, back cover copy, press releases, or rewrites, LightSpeed can do it quickly, accurately, and with pizzazz. We’ll follow the tone and style you prefer. Our writers specialize in accessible, easy-to-understand prose, no matter how complicated the topic. LightSpeed also finds, screens, develops, and signs authors for you. We make sure the job will be finished by lining up backup writers or co-authors for large projects or those with tight deadlines.

Design, DTP, and Illustration

We provide the look you want or come up with ideas to reflect your own publishing program. Our designers, desktop publishers, and artists are creative, experienced, quick, flexible, and responsive. They work in InDesign, Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, and, yes, we still have artists capable of hand illustration! Our photographers can shoot anything you need to enhance your publications.

Consulting and Troubleshooting

We have a decade and a half of experience solving the problems that can hinder a publication’s progress, from project scheduling to graphics reproduction glitches. We can give you tighter control of your publications and show you how to produce them more quickly.

Multimedia, E-Books, and Web Sites

Today’s publications don’t stop at the printed page. As a high-tech packager, we can create e-books for the latest platforms and provide Web sites that support your publications, as well as CD/DVD components to offer additional content to your readers. We make sure your multimedia projects the image you want, and we assure that our electronic files will work in the format you need.

Please contact scott@lightspeedpublishing.com to see how we can help you with your publications.