Publishing
Let’s create something meaningful together.
Driven by creativity and built on professionalism, this is where personal collaboration meets strategic execution. Let’s get your story out into the world.
You have a story.
From full-length memoirs to illustrated children’s books, there are all kinds of stories out there waiting to be shared. You may have hand-written diaries, letters from your grandparents, or deteriorating photo albums. Whatever your project might be—legacy memoir, travel journal, poetry, cookbook, or fan fiction—your story is unique. Our mission is to help you get your book shared with those you love and with the world.
We help you tell it.
With an extensive background in layout & graphic design, professional writing, digital arts, and project management, we are here to take your book from concept to publication. But the process isn't just curating images or editing text. We discover the stories behind the images, behind the people, within the words. We’ll work together to bring your ideas to life and ensure a beautiful, professional finished product.
Explore Our Packages
Peruse our range of publishing services designed to help you move forward with confidence, wherever you are in the process.
While these packages outline the typical needs for most authors, we are happy to create a custom plan for you. Each story is different, and our goal is to meet you wherever you are in your publishing journey and guide you along the way.
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If you already have your manuscript written, a cover image, and any images or illustrations digitized, here’s what this package includes:
Heavy copyedit
Digital interior layout design, including style choices
Cover layout design using existing artwork
Proofreading
Pre-production and distribution assistance
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If you have a lot of your project going but need a bit more professional polishing, such as the manuscript is a rough draft and you have your images picked out, this might be the one for you:
Developmental edit and/or heavy copyedit
Photo restoration (digitization of images and retouching/restoration/repair)
Ephemera digitization (digitization of scrapbooks, personal artifacts)
Cover design (design and layout for full jacket )
Layout design, including style choices
Proofreading
Pre-production and distribution assistance
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If your story is just a concept, then we take your project from start to finish, inluding:
Ghostwriting - collaboration on writing the story
Editing - copyediting manuscripts to prep for layout (one heavy, one light)
Layout design (digital design of book interior, font choices, etc.)
Proofreading (pre-print proofread)
Cover design (digital design of full jacket)
Printing and distribution
Photo restoration (digitization of images and retouching/restoration/repair)
Ephemera digitization (digitization of scrapbooks, personal artifacts)
Author branding
Marketing & Publicity
“Writing a book is a hell of a job.
Harder than I imagined, even though it was my own life. When the book was put in my hands, I couldn’t believe my eyes how expertly done it was. It filled me with pride, displaying the book among my friends and neighbors, all of whom were very impressed. And some of them might have been a little envious. But it is also rewarding that you got down on paper the thoughts you might have late at night or sitting in a chair with a drink. To have accomplished that mission is a hell of a job, and it would not have been without the air power of Julie Kanta and Plumb Creative.”
Stanley R. Luther, Lt. Colonel (Ret.), USAF, and lifelong pilot
A Lifetime in the Atmosphere, 2023
Featured Projects
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My Century In Motion
Dan Bulkley lived a century that deserved to be documented with the same precision and care he brought to his years as a WWII Naval officer. We guided this full-service memoir from manuscript through to a finished, printed book: something his family could hold, share, and return to for generations. A life this full deserved nothing less.
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American Ice Cream
Kirsten Mærsk Hendershot came to the United States in the summer of 1960 as a Danish Girl Scout, journal in hand, taking in a world that was entirely new to her. Decades later, we helped her turn those memories into a book, weaving her photographs, scrapbooks, and personal narrative into something as warm and unhurried as the summer that inspired it. This is exactly the type of legacy memoir we love putting together.
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A Lifetime in the Atmosphere
Stan Luther spent a career above the clouds as a USAF pilot, and when it came time to put that life on paper, he trusted us to get it right. We walked alongside him through every stage of the publishing process—ghostwriting, editing, design, photo restoration, and production—carefully bringing aging photographs back to life so that the visual history of his career could sit alongside his words with the same clarity and dignity. As Stan himself put it, it would not have been possible without the air power of Plumb Creative Books.
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a deep dark black ray of sunshine (20th anniversary omnibus)
The 20th anniversary omnibus brought together Julie's complete creative writing from across those two decades, so the project called for more than a redesign. We handled the full package: collecting and organizing the body of work, designing a new visual home that honored the original without being beholden to it, and producing a limited edition worth holding onto. New design. A lifetime of writing. All heart.
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We Gambled Our Future
María Cristina López Gandarillas-Page came to us with a story spanning four decades, two continents, and two very different lives that somehow became one. We worked with her from first draft to finished book, through every round of edits, every design decision, photo restoration work that brought family images spanning Bolivia to California back to their full life, and every step of pre-production. A story this layered deserved a process that matched it. The result is a memoir built to last.
Let’s Get Started
If you're interested in working with us, complete the form with a few details about your project. We'll review your message and get back to you within 48 hours. You can also book a no-cost, no-obligation consultation.