Painter Publishing Services
From first draft to the last word.
Writing, editing, design, production, and automation for publishers and businesses, under one roof.
Services
Written, edited, designed, and built under one roof.
Nearly two decades of writing and editing to reference-publishing standards, at reference-publishing volume. Bring us one piece or a whole program, from the first draft through design, production, and the workflows that run it. We build to spec.
Writing
- Creative, technical, business, and reference writing
- Fiction and nonfiction, documentation, white papers, and reference entries, written to publication standard.
- Business literature
- Company histories, annual reports, executive profiles, case studies, and other long-form writing about the businesses behind them.
- Content at volume
- Series, databases, and recurring programs delivered on schedule, entry after entry.
Editing
- Copyediting and proofreading
- Clean, consistent copy at every stage, from manuscript to final pages.
- Manuscript styling
- House style applied and enforced across a single title or an entire catalog.
- QA and fact-checking
- Accuracy and sourcing audits, including review of AI-assisted content. Automated style and consistency checks against your house style, with flagged issues resolved by a person.
Design
- Brand identity
- Logos, visual systems, and the guidelines that keep them consistent.
- Book and cover design
- Covers, interiors, and series designs for print and digital editions.
- Editorial and marketing design
- Reports, publications, collateral, ads, and illustration.
Production and automation
- Typesetting and composition
- Print and digital editions built to your specifications.
- Complex layouts
- Catalog design, illustrated books, tables, references, and other detailed content.
- Scalable production
- High-volume production and overflow capacity.
- Automation
- Template-driven composition for series and reference work, with every page reviewed by an editor.
Digital & accessible
- Structured content
- XML and HTML production.
- EPUB 3 and e-books
- Conversion and production for every major platform.
- Backlist digitization
- Converting existing titles into modern digital formats.
- Accessibility
- Accessible EPUB 3, PDF remediation, alt text, and accessibility QA.
Operations consulting
- Editorial and production workflows
- Mapping, fixing, and scaling how content moves from brief to delivery.
- Quality systems
- Standards, style guides, and QA processes that hold up at volume.
- Automation and tools
- Technology-enabled publishing and AI-assisted workflows.
- Vendor and capacity planning
- Sourcing, managing, and sizing the teams and partners behind the work.
Selected work
Covers, campaigns, catalogs, brands, and editorial production.
Nearly two decades of design for reference and educational publishing, from single book covers to complete brand systems.
Nearly two decades of building publishing platforms and the workflows that run them.
Work with us
How a project starts.
Send a few details and we'll come back with a scope and a quote. No obligation, and no long forms. Quoted per entry, page, or title, with paid pilots available.
Tell us about the project
Title count, formats, specifications, and deadlines.
Scope and quote
A clear statement of work and a quote, per title or per project.
Production
Files delivered to your specifications, checked at every stage.
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A small press for the books we make for ourselves: picture books, strange fiction, and whatever else gets out of the studio. Five titles are in the works. Sign up and we'll tell you when the first one is ready.
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