Decentralized publishing is imprint publishing without the gatekeepers: your book is published under a real imprint by a professional team, while the decision to publish, your royalties, and your message stay with you. At Tharsos, that means the Tharsos Press imprint on your spine, one flat fee for professional publishing services, and royalties paid directly to you.

It's a fair question, and we'd rather answer it than hide from it. We're new because we didn't see the option authors deserved, so we built it. What isn't new is the system: the Tharsos Press Advantage system has produced several Amazon bestsellers. You'll also get everything in writing before you pay, a named team, and a direct line to the Publisher. Talk to us, ask hard questions, and decide for yourself.

No. A traditional publisher licenses the rights to your book, pays you a percentage (often after an advance earns out), and decides whether and when your book is published. Tharsos Press is an imprint publisher. You publish under our imprint, we provide professional publishing services for one flat fee, you keep your manuscript copyright, and your royalties are paid to you directly.

Package companies often publish any manuscript that can pay, sell add-ons on top of the package, and sometimes keep a share of your royalties. Tharsos Press is imprint publishing: Tharsos Press is the publisher of record, a professional team produces and launches your book, and we never take a cut of your royalties.

Yes. Your book sells through Amazon (and through IngramSpark on Premier and Signature). Like every retailer and distributor, they keep their share and the printing cost first. What's left is paid to you directly. Tharsos takes nothing from it: no percentage, no split, ever.

You own your manuscript copyright. Tharsos Press purchases the ISBN and is listed as publisher of record. The cover artwork we design stays with Tharsos if you choose to move on with a different publisher or choose to publish on your own, unless you purchase the design files from us.

Yes. It's your message, and you're free to build courses, study guides, workbooks, talks, and coaching programs from it. That's one of the reasons we started Tharsos.

It means we make the big decisions together. You approve the title, the cover direction, and the final proofs. We bring professional judgment and tell you honestly what we think, and your book stays your book.

Professional is $8,000. Premier is $20,000. Signature, with ghostwriting, starts at $35,000. Each is one flat fee for a written scope. Payment plans are available, and we'll walk through the options on your call. See every detail on the Publishing Choices page.

For Professional and Premier—yes, mostly. Those packages include an editorial polish of a finished manuscript and we'll guide you through creating your front matter, TOC, end matter, book descriptions, and other things most first-time authors forget. If you have the message but not the time to write it, Signature includes ghostwriting. If you're still drafting, the Prep course can help you finish.

Every package includes an editorial polish and a title review, held to our highest editorial and production standards, including The Chicago Manual of style and AP Style Guide. Christian authors are edited to The Christian Writer's Manual of Style. If your manuscript needs deeper developmental work, we'll tell you honestly on the call.

The biggest variables are the length of your manuscript and how quickly you return feedback. Your agreement includes a target timeline.

Every package includes worldwide online distribution. We guarantee your book will be available on Amazon and BarnesandNoble.com, and almost always several other major online retailers. However, it is up to each retailer to decide to carry your book. We assign an ISBN to each format of your book, which makes it discoverable and able to be ordered by any bookstore or library. Selling a book in physical bookstores requires special arrangements and contracts which we do not provide.

Turley Talks is Dr. Steve Turley's national media platform and our marketing and audience partner. Premier and Signature authors receive an interview with Dr. Turley and a feature in the Turley Talks newsletter as part of their done-for-you launch. It's real exposure to an established audience reaching millions of people nationwide, but not a guarantee of sales.

No publisher can honestly promise that, and be careful with anyone who does. Dr. Turley's results show what a strong system can do, but every book, author, and market is different. We guarantee the professional work in your agreement: editing, design, production, registration, distribution setup, and the launch deliverables in your package.

Your book is edited, designed, and launched by people. We use software tools the way any modern publisher does, but we don't publish fully AI-written books, and every page gets human editorial judgment.

A real person on our team reads your answers. If it looks like a fit, we'll invite you to a short call about your book and recommend a package. If it's not a fit, or not yet, we'll tell you that too. You're never obligated.