A bit more information about:

The Company

A Problem Worth Solving

When you ask creative people why they haven’t written and published a story, the most common reasons include:

  • Lack of available time

  • Lack of energy

  • Too lonely of a process

  • Easily distracted

  • Being very good at one aspect of storytelling but unable to bring it together

  • Watches a lot of visual and audio media but struggles to transfer that to words on a page

And this doesn’t begin to address the reasons as to why someone who has finished a manuscript or stage play or music piece would be slow to publish it for profit. Those can include:

  • Unable to find the right publishing company for their needs

  • Don’t want to lose the Intellectual Property (IP) rights

  • Poor query letter

  • Having to fight to stand out to a well-known publishing house among tens of thousands of other works attempting to do the same.

  • Are not familiar with where to format, print, and sell their work nor how to advertise it

It boils down to customers having a strong passion for their art and a lack of knowledge and—doubly compounding the issue—a lack of time to acquire it.

A Solution Worth Supporting

Novalock Publishing LLC serves to be a conversation-driven publishing house. Creative people LOVE to talk about their ideas and our team loves to listen. Query letters, while great for demonstrating writing ability, do not tell the whole story. They may leave a reader with questions that a publishing house may not care to answer because of the sheer volume of options they have to pick from.

Instead of a query letter, why not a Query Conversation™?

Conversations around the campfire is the most ancient method of storytelling. These oral folktales were then written and turned into stories we know today. Through a Query Conversation™, our team can dive into each story in real time with its orator to ascertain themes, major story beats, and potential shortfalls. Through further talks, we can ghostwrite or assist in turning sound waves to words.

It’s worked for thousands of years, it’ll work now.

The Competition

Artificial Intelligence

Easy to write stories, but it is extremely likely to suffer from AI hallucination.be inconsistent with the prompted themes and message the work is prompted to give.

Video Courses

You’re sitting staring at another screen as you try to learn and type out a work all by yourself. “Why keep going? Who’s going to read it?”, you keep thinking to yourself. Night after night. Until you give up completely.

In-Person Courses

You have to DRIVE? To class?? FOR FUN?? Sure, there’s a community there, but imagine the TIME commitment it takes to do that? If you had that much time, let’s be real here, you’d have done it already. Yet here you are, no book.

You have a manuscript! Great job! You’ve gotten farther in this process than most!

But your suffering isn’t over.

Self-Publishing Platforms

There are a number of places you can take your manuscripts yourself. But what about editing? You should probably make sure that all your participles aren’t dangling. Or maybe you will use the wrong verb tense in the middle of a paragraph.

Vanity Presses

You pay the press and then they’ve made their money. They couldn’t care less how your book does. Their financial liability stops when yours begins. Plus, you still have to cover your own marketing costs, find an audience, gain a following, then work to sell it.

WattPad

This, and other platforms like it, demand readers have high follower count and reader count already in order to monetize directly through the site. If that’s not the case, readers must be directed to third-party sites to financially support the work.

Novalock Publishing maintains a strong internal network of trusted talent with decades of combined experience across multiple creative disciplines. Our writers, editors, marketers, and graphic designers are deeply committed to nurturing talent. Our commitment is so strong that we publish employee manuscripts under our own banner. We are not a publishing house of convenience work. We build long-term relationships with our authors and followers to bring people with stories to the people who crave them.