Membership
Questions and Answers
Membership Questions and Answers
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some common questions about becoming a member of Badman Publishing and using our facilities to hopefully improve as an author and sell more books! If there are any questions we haven’t answered, please feel free to email us and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
What are the levels of membership?
There are currently only two levels of membership.
1. Essential Membership, which is free of charge
2. Pro membership with a nominal annual membership fee to contribute to our running costs
The pro services are completely optional and paid for on a pay-as-you-use basis.
Why do you charge for some of your services?
Most of our services are free of charge in line with our desire to be a helpful, not-for-profit writing community. However, we recognise that members may want more from their membership and this is why we have a premium level of membership. The annual subscriptions help cover our costs for running and promoting the community, and for helping our authors do better for themselves.
What are your professional services?
Our additional and completely optional services are available on a friendly pay-as-you-use basis. They include 1 to 1 help by one of our team in areas such as:
- Cover design
- Graphic design for online media such as flat and 3d book covers and spines, social media imagery and graphics for marketing and merchandising
- Deep dive manuscript/book analysis
- Formatting and publishing your work for e-books, Flip-books, PDF, and Print if you don’t want to do it yourself.
Tell me more about reviewing, analysing and improving my manuscripts.
Your manuscript is analysed by proprietary software from which you receive an analysis of your work highlighting over a dozen areas of reporting aspects such as the story pace, character traits, narration and language, use of clichés and repetitive phrases, sentencing and readability, etc.
Book covers, 3D models, social media images and more
Nothing screams DIY, amateur and self published (not that there is anything wrong with either of these) than badly designed or imaged book covers, screen shots, use of worn out second hand images used in book covers and social media.
There are many useful free and premium graphic design programmes and web-apps which we can recommend.
And it you don’t want to do it yourself, we can do it for you using our premium and licensed software and assets.
Formatting and Preparation for Publishing
How much time is wasted writing a book, then trying to format it according to the instructions given by the publishing companies/platforms, only to have it rejected, often without explanation, for you to keep doing over and over again.
Our guides and templates will help avoid this, and we can even take over and do it for you if you wish.
My own authors landing pages and website?
Included in their membership, Pro members get an inclusive authors page.
However, if you want your own home on the internet, you can choose to upgrade to a dedicated landing page all about you and your books or even an entire website, from a single page portfolio to a multipage website, blog and ultimately an online store.
How much do the optional pro services cost?
To provide our pro services can take varying amounts of time and the use of proprietary software, which has to be licensed each year.
Some of our services might be quick and all we will do is ask you to “buy us a coffee”. Other services will require more time and effort, and we will happily provide a personalised estimate once we know what you are looking to achieve.