QUALITY
BOOKS
Quality
Books
Otterpine is a full service indie author support agency based in Asheville, North Carolina. We specialize in creating gorgeous print books with impeccable words, beautiful aesthetics, and lasting quality. We craft books that are made to last with impactful designs that will be admired on bookshelves. Print-on-demand has made printing easy and accessible for indie authors, but too often these books are made cheaply and printed just to be thrown away. We are different. We care about the materials we use.
We fret about things like paper weight and color quality and fabric type and stamping quality. And most importantly, we want to treat each book like a work of art that’s worthy of the words inside it.
That Match
Your Values
One of the first steps of our process is to get to know our authors. By getting to know you, we can better understand your values and goals for your book, leading to holistic book production and sales strategies that match your needs and your budget. Every plan is unique because every plan is personalized. Many of our authors have mission-driven goals like donating profits to charity, making books more accessible by offering them at sliding scale pricing, and giving away copies for free to clients and organizations. These goals don’t always fit into the machine of indie publishing through Amazon KDP.
With or without Dependency
on Amazon
Amazon has made indie publishing easy, but that doesn’t mean it’s made it better. We understand that many readers prioritize buying books online, but we also still love walking into a bookstore and talking to real people. Today’s digital version of connection with your readers is to prioritize selling wide, starting with a direct sales platform. By selling direct, you can have a digital connection with every single person who purchases your books, and you can fulfill the books however you want. Selling direct also means you can get paid sooner, understand your readers better, and often earn higher margins as well.
With or without Dependency
on Amazon
Where You Keep
Your Royalties
If your readers already know who you are and want to support you, then why give others a cut? You can still leverage Amazon to reach new readers and to sell books to people who only buy books there, but you don’t have to be solely dependent on them. You have choices, and selling wide will provide you with more freedom and security in the long run.
Today, writing and selling books is too much about online algorithms, based on attention-driving tasks like building social media platforms, Amazon keyword ranking, online ads, and SEO. Entire companies exist just to write books based on niche Amazon keywords that they can get to rank. We’re not saying any of these approaches are wrong, but we’re nostalgic at heart. We love independent bookstores, libraries, and used bookstores filled with the smell of worn pages. So we balance the opportunities of this digital era to help authors create and sell books that are based as equally on human connection as they are on online algorithms.
Useful Not True
By Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want, Hell Yeah or No, Your Music and People, and How to Live, is an ambitious creator with a laser focus on perpetually producing and creating. His latest book, Useful Not True, challenges conventional thinking by exploring a radical idea: beliefs do not have to be objectively true to be valuable.
The Playbooks
By Kendra Adachi
The Lazy Genius Tool to Making Your Planner Work Better for You.
Compact, satisfying notebooks designed to help you see your season, prioritize what matters, and prepare, adjust, and notice with intention—so you can live a life that reflects what’s important to you in every season.
Derek Sivers
Editorial, Art Direction, Book Design, Print Design & Production, Sales & Fulfillment
Cory Stout
End Small Talk
Editorial, Art Direction, Book Design, Print Design & Production, Sales & Fulfillment
Haley Scheich & Dr. Tarek Pacha
My SuperHero Foods
Editorial, Children’s Book Art Direction & Illustration, Book Design, Print Design & Production, Sales & Fulfillment, Author Platform, Website, Content Management, Social Media Management
Allison Schultz
The Art of Being Human at Work
Editorial, Art Direction, Book Design, Print Design & Production
White Women, Get Ready
Amanda K. Gross
Editorial, Art Direction, Book Design, Print Design & Production, Sales & Fulfillment
Spencer Reese
The Military Money Manual
Editorial, Art Direction, Book Design, Print Design & Production, Sales & Fulfillment, Author Platform
Contact
Send us an email to introduce yourself and your book, to say hi, or to share something random.
Or even better, send us a letter or postcard. We always reply.
hi@otterpine.com
81 Broadway St Suite 201, Asheville, NC 28801
