Your first step is to choose the package that best fits your needs. We have designed our packages to allow you to choose the services that you need, and that fit your budget, without having to wade through a lot of technical jargon and information. Each package gives you specific advantages, and you can upgrade at any time.

The Basic Package

The “Basic” package is ideal for the Accomplished Author, who has already published their book through another publisher or has their book all ready to go. If you have your book in pdf format, and have taken care of the copyright page, library registration, and ISBN, this package is ideal for you. It includes

• printing of your full colour cover from your file
• printing of your book from your Adobe Acrobat © pdf file
• storage and backup of your files
• printing and binding of one proof copy
• a non-exclusive contract that allows you to pursue a deal with a major publisher
• printing copies of your book to fill your orders
• 40% Author Discount off retail price
• additional discounts for volume purchases.
• FIVE FREE COPIES of your book are included in the price of the package

This package is also ideal if your book is only for family or friends to enjoy, and design and layout is not a problem for you.

The Classic Package

The “Classic” includes everything in the “Basic”, plus

• Professional cover design
• Preparation and insertion of copyright page
• Assigning of ISBN number, creation of EAN Bookland barcode for the cover, full library cataloguing and registration including Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress numbering
• 15 free corrections
• ebook setup
• TEN FREE COPIES of your book are included in the price of the package
• 50% Author Discount off retail price

This package is ideal if you have your book prepared on the computer, but don’t want to have to deal with the paperwork and phone calls to get your own ISBN number and Library cataloguing. It also gives you one more chance to review your book and make up to 15 free corrections to the proof copy we send you.

The Deluxe Package

The “Deluxe” includes everything in the “Basic” and “Classic”, plus

• Setting up your book in our pricing and inventory database
• Listing in the qualitybookpress.com online bookstore
• Accepting and processing orders through qualitybookpress.com online bookstore
• Invoicing and shipping books to fulfill qualitybookpress.com online bookstore orders
• Processing charge card payments for qualitybookpress.com online bookstore orders
• Paying quarterly royalties on qualitybookpress.com online bookstore sales
• Printing two copies of your book and depositing with the National Library
• TWENTY FREE COPIES of your book are included in the price of the package
• 60% Author Discount off retail price

This package is ideal for the author who is serious about selling his or her book and wants to make it available to the world through the Internet.

The Select Package

The “Select” includes everything in the “Basic”, the “Classic”, AND the “Deluxe”, plus

• Creating a web page with photos, author biography, excerpts, etc.
• Informing key search engines about your book’s web page
• Announcing your book’s launch to book industry and media contacts
• Sending Book Release Notices to booksellers
• Submitting your book for sales at other online book retailers
• Print and delivery of 250 book announcement cards to you, the author
• Print and delivery of 100 colour postcards to you, the author
• 10 Posters promoting your book
• Processing orders from libraries, booksellers & distributors
• Payment of quarterly royalties on all sales
• FORTY FREE COPIES of your book are included in the price of the package

If you are serious about selling your book, and determined to sell it in the world marketplace, this is the package for you. This package gives you all the tools you need to make your book a success and to make it available to booksellers and readers throughout the world.

The “Plus”

If you want to give your book that “professional edge,” you can add professional book layout and editing to the “Classic”, “Deluxe” and “Select” packages. We will edit your book for grammar and flow, set page margins and page breaks to industry norms, and give it that “polished” look.

If your book is already typed into the computer, it can be as simple as emailing the file to us. If it is handwritten or was prepared on a typewriter, we can transfer it to a computer file. Of course, this will cost a little more, but once it is done, you will not only have a printed and bound copy of your book, but the manuscript on computer disk.

If you want pictures in your book, we will scan them for you, size them to fit the page, and place them as you desire, all for a reasonable per-picture fee. It doesn’t matter if the picture is “too big” or “too small.” We can expand or shrink them to fit the need. Using our state-of-the-art photo editing software, even a poor photograph can be improved.

The Cover

If you already have a cover design in mind, and have chosen the “Deluxe” package, we will scan your artwork and finish the cover to your design. If not, we can either supply a professional full-colour cover or, for a reasonable fee, have our in-house artist create a unique design just for you. The design fee for the custom cover is an added value feature of the “Select” package.

Dunlevey is the story of five adventurous Americans who, in 1859, travelled from Chilcotin mouth on the Fraser River to Horsefly to make the first Cariboo gold strike in British Columbia, contrary to the Barkerville claim.

They crossed perilous rivers, traversed rugged mountain trails and were more than once challenged by unfriendly natives.  They witnessed the historic Indian games at Lac La Hache, where contestants from different tribes played the games in deadly earnest.  The skills learned could be quickly turned into vicious weapons of war in the future.

Dunlevey’s eventual success in finding gold was due to the hellp of two natives, Tomaah and Baptiste, whose decency, excellent physique and character were perfect examples of the “noble redman.”

This story is taken from the diaries of Alex P. McInnes, who was acquainted with many of the principal characters in the story.  Also included are original drawings of native people and of cliff drawings.  A very fascinating book, it offers a unique first-hand perspective on this pivotal period in British Columbia’s history.

It’s a dry cold . . . you don’t feel it! is a “praise the prairies” book.  It honours and laughs with, and at, the stubborn, courageous people who live there.  The content is a collection of columns written by Mrs. Hewson in recent years for five Saskatchewan weekly newspapers.  It includes the cussedness of Saskatchewanians who refuse daylight saving time, disregard glaring difficulties, and claim benefits only obvious to themselves.  The uncertainty fo the basic industry, farming, is forgotten by the spirit of hope that arises after each crop failure.  The deadly cold of winter is offset by constand sunshine.  And who can forget the prairie spring that arrives, not with a soggy whimper but a roar of glorious shout.  If you are prairie born, you CAN go home again!

It could happen – and it did, once.  AlonG with a lot of other strange goings-on in Kate and Sam’s young family on the prairies.

Conveniences were non-existent, but Sam was always innovative.  Kate believed that “something was bound to turn up” and lots did – inept farmhands, hungry bachelors and 300 screeching pigs.  Nothing phased these two.  They had hobbies.  Same collected things – farm machinery, old beds, worn out Indian basketry and one large stuffed moth-eaten mountain goat.  Kate read and preached prohibition and made Christmas wine that bubbled, exploded and turned into alcoholic mash only the pigs could enjoy.  When every year brought another baby, Grandpa, from Cornwall, questions Sam: “It sez ‘eer in the Bible that man should go out and multiply and replentish the earth.  But Sam, do ‘ee needs do the job for the whole country?”

Kate needed no sympathy.  Looking back she said, “Hardships? Nonsense!  It was glorious!  We were all young together.”

These moving, yet somehow inspirational, stories teach the native and the stranger two important facts about the life in Canada.  The first is that an opulent empire calle the Peace River Country was settled 70 years ago with all the adventure of frontier times at least a century earlier!

The second fact is that this prodigy of labour, suffering and courage, has produced its own peculiar record and almost, you might say, its own language.

Much of the record, and all of the language, are to be found in the Peace Lovin’ Folk manuscripts.  These stories were written from live interviews in the period 1960 to 1969, and contain many early photographs.

This is the story of Peter Wing, son of a landless Cantonese peasant, and first Chinese Mayor in North America.  From the arrival in Kamloops of Eng Wing Him, his father, to Peter’s accomplishments in his retirement, it covers the history of his life and the growth of the city of Kamloops.

Peter Wing was awarded the Order of Canada(1976), the Order of British Columbia (1990), is an Honorary Life Member of the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce, a Freeman of the  City of Kamloops, received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal (1977), the Canadian Council of Christians & Jews Human Relations Award (1977), among other honours.

Much insight is offered on achieving success, and keeping it, by a man whose life is the embodiment of true success in life.

Has anyone told you to “write it down?”
Have you previously self-published a book, and have 500 copies in your basement?
Are you looking into publishing your family history?
Do you have questions about publishing?

Are you looking for a good book?
Would you like to learn something, be challenged, or maybe just laugh?
Do you want to learn about interesting people, the history of Canada,
a gold rush, pioneer living, or maybe barbed wire?