We map the book with you, record you in remote or in-person sessions, and our editors write the manuscript from your own words. At Manuscripts.com you write it yourself.
Three companies can all hand you a finished book. Manuscripts.com is explicit that the manuscript is written by the author, author-led and editor-guided, so the drafting is yours to do. A ghostwriting firm assigns a writer who drafts it for you. At Author.Inc a Book Strategist maps the book with you first, and only then do we record you and write the manuscript from your own words.
Manuscripts.com is built around the manuscript, and so is Draft. It covers the same territory, with our team doing the writing and your own time on it measured in days rather than months. Draft ends at a finished manuscript. Publish carries that manuscript through design, distribution and launch.
A dedicated Book Strategist maps the book with you and defines your positioning and bullseye reader. Blueprint, table of contents, chapter talking points and story vault, approved before anything is recorded. Recording sessions, remote or in person, then the full editorial cycle, delivered as a publish-ready manuscript in your own voice.
Everything in Draft, plus custom cover and interior design, an ISBN from the Author.Inc imprint (or your own imprint), distribution across Amazon, IngramSpark and major retail, the full launch marketing kit, and six months of weekly advisory calls with Charlie Hoehn.
Manuscripts.com wording quoted from manuscripts.com, August 2026. Ghostwriting describes the standard model across the category.
The fee is easy to compare. The harder number is how much of your own year the book takes, counting the blueprint and outline work up front, the recording sessions, and every round of review.
Manuscripts.com figures quoted from manuscripts.com, August 2026.
Six months of access to live group calls with Charlie Hoehn, available throughout the engagement and after launch, and you come to the ones you need. Manuscripts.com publishes a weekly cadence too, and theirs is described around the writing phase.
Manuscripts.com cadence and scope quoted from manuscripts.com, checked August 2026.
Work with us if the writing should come off your calendar. A Book Strategist maps the book with you, you speak it in remote or in-person recording sessions, and our editors write it in your voice. Around 30 to 60 days of your own time, and weekly advisory calls with Charlie Hoehn from the day you sign. This fits founders who want the book to produce business and who need the next six months for the company.
Some founders want to write the book themselves, and that is a real reason to pick a different partner. Manuscripts.com reports a 90% manuscript completion rate and counts more than 350 national and international book award winners and finalists among its authors. If sitting down and writing your own draft is the point of doing this, that record is worth taking seriously.
At Author.Inc you speak the book. A dedicated Book Strategist maps it with you first, defining your positioning and bullseye reader and building the blueprint, table of contents, chapter talking points and story vault. That foundation gets approved before any recording is scheduled. You then speak the book in recording sessions, remote or in person, and our editors write the manuscript in your voice, with a first draft inside two weeks of the final session. No ghostwriter is assigned. At Manuscripts.com you write it yourself. Their site states that every book remains author-led, editor-guided, and that the manuscript is written by the author.
They publish it. Their Modern Publishing Operating System lists final developmental and line editing, cover and interior design, metadata and positioning strategy, and global distribution. Authors own 100% of their books. On publishing scope the two companies are close, which is why this page is about who writes the manuscript and what happens in the year after launch.
Manuscripts.com does not publish its pricing. Their own guide to hybrid publishing costs quotes a category range of $15,000 to $30,000 for most business authors and $40,000 to $100,000 and up for premium firms, without saying where they sit inside that range. At Author.Inc, every book has custom pricing based on what it needs and where you are in the process, whether that is Draft for the manuscript on its own or Publish, which carries the manuscript through design, distribution and launch with six months of weekly advisory calls. Schedule a free consult and we'll walk you through it.
With Author.Inc, plan on 30 to 60 days of your own involvement spread across the engagement. That covers the mapping work up front, your recording sessions, the weekly live editing sessions you choose to join, and your reviews and approvals. Manuscripts.com states that most authors spend four to six months building a complete manuscript, inside a full process that typically spans eleven to fourteen months.
Yes, at both. With Author.Inc you keep 100% of the royalties and profits and you retain copyright in your work. The book is published under the Author.Inc imprint and the ISBN is assigned from that imprint's registry block. Manuscripts.com states that authors own 100% of their books and retain 100% of the rights and royalties. Neither company takes a cut, so ownership is not the reason to choose between them.
With Author.Inc you get six months of access to weekly live group advisory calls hosted by Charlie Hoehn, available throughout the engagement and after launch, and you come to the ones you need rather than all of them. The launch work includes an email campaign written in your voice, a personalized podcast and media outreach list with a pitch drafted for each outlet, social launch assets, hands-on pre-sale advisory built around your first 1,000 copies, weekly live access to ask Charlie about your launch, and a self-paced marketing curriculum. This is done-with-you: Author.Inc advises, equips and supports your launch, and you run the campaigns. Manuscripts.com publishes a weekly cadence around the writing phase and names audience development, presales and launch strategy as launch services. Past launch their site describes outcomes rather than named deliverables or a term.
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