We’d share all the really juicy details of our humble beginnings with you, but there are none. We’re nerds. Remember?

Clients who choose Geniuscribes for their writing, coaching and indie publishing needs can expect to work with trained, experienced professionals from start to finish. We maintain constant communication with you, communicate all critical communications in writing, and patiently answer any questions and address any concerns that you might have throughout the process. Most of all, you can expect to walk away from your experience with Geniuscribes satisfied with a finished product of which you can be proud.

Although they are not required, Geniuscribes STRONGLY encourages students to order the Intensive Extras, as these will maximize your retreat experience:

Phase 1 Intensive Extras

Coaching Pre-work (Phase 1) – This allows your assigned dissertation buddy to spend hours delving in your research topic prior to the retreat in order to providing one-on-one coaching for you. As a part of the pre-work process, your dissertation buddy will review the most current research, take notes, examine similar studies, and gain a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of your topic’s placement in the overall body of most current research literature.

Literature Review (Phase 1) – This allows your dissertation buddy to complete his/her own exhaustive review of the literature, making notes about research methods used, population and samples, results and findings, and to understand the similarities, differences and connections that exist between various studies that align with your original research and published literature.

Methods (Phase 1) – This allows your assigned dissertation buddy to examine your research topic and provide a sound list of recommended quantitative, qualitative or triangulated methods that can be engaged in the study to answer your research questions. Along with each of the recommended methods, your dissertation buddy will provide a clear, practical explanation of the method as well as a justification for why it would best suit a study of your nature.

Phase 2 Intensive Extras

Analysis (Phase 2) – This allows your dissertation buddy to examine your data set and familiarize him/herself with the material, whether qualitative or quantitative in nature. Immersion in your data will allow for a richer, more meaningful understanding of the data that you have access to in order to answer your research questions in order to help you extract the answers you need.

Yes, we will! However, document review/feedback is billed at $75 per hour. This payment can be deducted from your deposit if you decide to utilize our services. This fee is to prevent our writers from spending costly hours reviewing written materials to provide feedback and estimates to individuals who do not utilize our services and ensures that we work with serious inquiries only.

It depends on which package you choose. To view our manuscript development ghostwriting packages, click here.

Not exactly. You will be provided with a completed manuscript. However, after the completion of your manuscript, you will need to work with a publisher to design your book. They will utilize your manuscript content to format the interior, design a front and back cover, register an ISBN and barcode, and complete all of the other logistics necessary to take a manuscript to a printed book. Oh yeah… we offer these services, too. For more about Geniuscribes Indie Pub (independent publishing) services, click here.

The page count maximums are based upon a 5.5 x 8.5 paperback book.

There is no refund, discount, reallocation or other compensation for unused interview or writing hours. Unused live interview hours will convert to writing hours.

We can utilize live interviews to collect content for your book, or you can submit mp3s and/or written materials as content for your book. One hour of recorded material submitted translates into 1 interview hour and 5 writing hours. One 8.5 x 11 single-spaced page of written material submitted translates into 1/3 of an interview hour and 1.67 writing hours.

Additional package hours may be purchased at the package’s average rate (package total divided by total of interview/writing hours). For reference, each hour of live interviews translates into 5 hours of writing, on average. Each hour of recorded material translates into 6 – 8 hours of writing, on average. Additional pages beyond the max page count will be billed at average rate of package page. Client will be notified in advance if manuscript is anticipated to exceed page maximum of selected package.

One of our team members will contact you to schedule a manuscript consultation in order to get a better feel for your project. From there, we will schedule your first set of interviews to begin collecting content for your book. As you make your installment payments each month, we will continue to schedule your interviews and continue this process until all content is collected and the entire manuscript is written.

The project window is the length of the project.

• After initial deposit is submitted, client’s project is placed on our project calendar for the maximum number of months allotted for each project package (the “project window”). All payments, collection of content, writing and editing must occur within this project window. Any additional work performed on the project after the project window closes will be billed at an hourly rate. This stipulation applies even if client advises us that additional content will be submitted at a later date.

• After final project is delivered, clients will have two weeks (14 business days) to review completed project materials and request changes. If feedback or change requests are not received by this deadline, we will consider the final project to have been delivered, and the project file will be closed. Any change requests (including more interview hours, submission of written or recorded materials, and/or writing hours) made after the project file is closed will be billed at an hourly rate.

• After the project window has closed, the full balance has been paid and the final project has been delivered, if the client requests for additional work to be performed on the project, the additional work will be billed at an hourly rate.  

• No additional content, whether live interviews, written materials or recordings, may be submitted for the project within 30 days of the end of the project window.

Prompt payment of monthly installment fees required to keep project active. The balance of all projects must be paid within the number of months indicated by the maximum number of installments (the “project window”).

We offer several optional services that fall under “optional fees.”

• Additional academic/fact-finding research necessary to create content will be billed at $75/hour. Client will be notified in advance if research is necessary.
• Identifying, creating and/or highlighting callouts in each chapter will be billed at $75/hour. (Note: Identifying or highlighting these elements in a Standard manuscript package would take an estimated 2 hours. Creating these elements in a Standard manuscript package would take an estimated 4 hours.)
• Expedite fees of 15-25% of package total may apply to projects for which completion is requested significantly sooner than the originally-estimated project completion date. Typically, completion in ½ of the estimated project time requires an expedite fee of 15% of package total, and completion in ¼ of the estimated project time requires an expedite fee of 25% of package total.

Your completed project will be delivered to you in a digital format as both an editable document and a PDF.

While Geniuscribes takes great care in editing documents, final responsibility for the entirety of the content, meaning, opinions, citations, permissions, and use of the document belongs to you. You must carefully read through your completed document, word for word, to ensure that your intended meanings have not been inadvertently changed by Geniuscribes in the editing process. Our team at Geniuscribes will utilize our best efforts to produce the best work possible for you. However, the ultimate responsibility for accepting, rejecting and publishing the work rests with you, and Geniuscribes accepts neither responsibility nor liability for damages or costs caused by any content, permissions, citations, typos, errors or omissions in the document.

At this time, the only religious books that we are able to write are Christian books. We have literally developed hundreds of books for Christian pastors over the past decade. They trust us because they know that we have a strong and sound understanding of Christian doctrine. We understand the criticality of every word that is printed in a book; one wrong word can cross the line into heresy! Therefore, we are particularly careful when ghostwriting this genre of books and take such work very seriously.

Yes. We do not write books that are illicit, provocative or controversial in nature, based on our own discretion. Geniuscribes reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.

No. You will be responsible for securing your own permissions to use information excerpted from other published sources. However, we will walk you through the process of securing these permissions. It’s not difficult at all.

No. We always promise to do our best to give you our absolute best, but because we are a team of humans rather than robots, it is possible that we might make a mistake or two as we ghostwrite or edit your manuscript. In light of this, our lawyers ensure that we have you sign off on an acknowledgement that the ultimate responsibility for the manuscript rests with you, the client, and that Geniuscribes accepts neither responsibility nor liability for damages or costs caused by any errors in content, citations, typos, or omissions in the document.

You should bring a laptop, because you will be spending some serious, dedicated time working on your book. If you tend to get cold easily, you’ll also want to bring a sweater along. Also, although snacks are included, feel free to bring along your own favorite snacks to nibble in your room as you continue to work after dinner in the evenings.

What you should not bring is anything that will be a distraction. You will be asked to turn off your phone, put away your tablet, and refrain from social media for much of the day as you immerse yourself in the process of getting your book out of your head and onto paper. Don’t worry; when you hop back on the plane with a huge sense of accomplishment at having finished your book, it’ll be worth it.

Unfortunately, no. The only way that we can assure that you make as much progress as possible during our 4-day, 3-night retreat is to have you all to ourselves. This includes having you hunker down with us in the hotel where you won’t encounter the daily distractions that have managed to rob you of getting your book done over the year

Our Geniuscribes writing coaches will provide group and individualized guidance and direction to help you get your book done. There will also be sessions about how to organize your manuscript for reading flow, how to identify and write for your target audience, how to overcome writer’s block, publishing, marketing, and other topics that are of direct relevance to writers like you.

The vast majority of our clients will leave the retreat with a completed book. Those who do not leave with a completed book manuscript will at least be really close to completion. However, we should reiterate that your best bet to ensuring that you leave the retreat with a completed manuscript is to order the Jump Start Extra. Doing so allows you and your writing coach to make the best use of your retreat time by starting with a framework and honing in on the areas that need the most development.

Yes. Each day, you will receive individualized writing assistance in which you will be provided with guidance on what to write and how to write it.

If you like, you can bring along a friend or assistant. However, be cautioned: if these individuals tend to distract you from getting your book done while you are at home, they will likely distract you from getting your book done while you are at the writing retreat. On the other hand, if you have an assistant who understands you and how you work, and you desire to bring him/her along to work with you, type for you, etc. this might be more of a help than a hindrance.

 

The bottom line: be careful about who you bring along and carefully assess whether the individual will help or hinder your retreat experience. If your guest will attend any of the group or individual coaching or writing sessions, or if he/she will partake of breakfast and/or lunch with you, an additional registration fee is required.

No. All deposits and registration costs are non-refundable. However, they are transferable; you can gift any payments made for a particular retreat to another person if that person has not already submitted his/her own deposit for the same retreat. Unfortunately, although the payments are transferable from person to person, they are not transferable from retreat to retreat.

Yes. Our writers are always available to provide consultations and coaching after the retreat. However, these services are not a part of the retreat cost. Additional fees are required for these services.

Typically, no. all payments for editing projects must be submitted in advance of the project beginning. However, in certain cases in which the project is very extensive, we might be able to break the payments into two installments. Reach out to us, and we’ll consider this option on a case by case basis.

No. We always promise to do our best to give you our absolute best, but because we are a team of humans rather than robots, it is possible that we might make a mistake or two as we your manuscript. In light of this, our lawyers ensure that we have you sign off on an acknowledgement that the ultimate responsibility for the manuscript rests with you, the client, and Geniuscribes accepts neither responsibility nor liability for damages or costs caused by any errors in content, citations, typos, or omissions in the document.

Absolutely not. In fact, the low quality of self-published books is the primary reason that we ventured into the indie-publishing space several years ago. We were tired of producing amazing manuscripts for our clients, only to have them take their manuscripts to a publisher who turned it into a pitiful-looking book that looked like it had been produced at the local copy center. No bueno. After so many years after seeing this happen, we decided to do something about it. The books that we design for our clients look like they belong on the shelf of any commercial bookstore.

At Geniuscribes, we strive to produce high-quality books for our clients. This includes ensuring that our books look professional – that they do not have the tell-tale “self-published” look. Others will not be able to look at your book and tell that it was self-published! To ensure the professional quality of our work, we choose only the best materials and processes to produce our clients’ books. Our reputation – and our authors’ reputations – depend on it!