Initial Call

No

Future/Follow-up Calls

Yes

Ongoing Consultations 

Yes

Time

Time requiring writing, revisions, strategy, evaluations, and brainpower. This holds true for ghostwriting, coauthoring, and contracted writing projects.

Insights

Information, analysis, discussions, and organization tailored to a client's project.

Depth

Learning about the client and helping convey a story's profound purpose or meaning to the intended audiences.

Coaching

We guide clients through the process of writing or dictating their own draft(s). They put their ideas or stories together with Oceannapolis coaching, educating, training, planning, and tailored templates and conversations.

Publisher

Our company never pretends to be a traditional publishing company, and we also are not in the vanity or hybrid world. We have a boutique publishing imprint we offer in exclusive situations to select writers and authors to release their stories under the Oceannapolis brand. In these circumstances, authors do not pay out of pocket. Oceannapolis prearranges royalty percentages from book sales for the authors.

Self-Publishing

Oceannapolis delivers detailed publishing guidance as part of this service, not to mention editing, formatting, and book covers. But when a client self-publishes, Oceannapolis isn't the publisher at all. The client is.

Writing Foremost

Most of all, Oceannapolis is a company providing coaching and writing services for both aspiring and repeat storytellers and innovators. We focus on getting clients' content ready in a manuscript for them to self-publish, share, or use. We do not offer major marketing functions.

Nonfiction

Nonfiction is our specialty, including memoirs, autobiographies, business, leadership, self-help, spirituality, and culture.

Fiction

Yes to fiction as well, including mystery, sci-fi, and adventure.

Ideas

We help clients share insights, reflections, and innovation.

Meant for Books

Oceannapolis focuses primarily on coaching clients and writing material for clients' books.

Stories and Ideas

We write and provide referrals for scripts, speeches, and articles.

Additional Writing

We write and provide referrals for strategies, analysis, and decision-making.

Writing Services

Yes.

Coaching and Consulting

Yes.

Self-Publishing or Publishing

Yes.

We work with those seeking to share meaningful ideas or stories. We mostly focus on the deep content of non-writers wanting to publish books, produce narratives, or solve problems.

Directly through the invoice(s) sent by Oceannapolis. Payments are expected by the prearranged due date(s) with a full payment or with planned installments, depending on the services. Strategy services for books require full payment up front.

Oceannapolis performs a lot of the writing services, but we also contract work to individuals and businesses while we set up, plan, and/or lead the process. We communicate the different kinds of work transparently with every client. Oceannapolis doesn't carry out certain roles itself. For example, we do not create the design work for clients' book cover files or conduct audiobook narrations. We always use contractors or vendors for such work. Once again, Oceannapolis stays involved in the process for communication, planning, and frequently leading the overall project(s).

Oceannapolis receives no public credit for our ghostwriting work. In select circumstances, an author will want to give us credit for helping them, and we mutually modify the agreement. Still, we try to establish in the initial agreement the kind of credit Oceannapolis will receive, if any credit at all. The agreements for ghostwriting, coauthoring, and contracted writing vary from one situation to the next. We simplify the details for clients about their specific projects.