Adams Press is a true family business—Jim, Ann, and Tom Kepler have been at the wheel since 1998. Before that, Adams Press was founded and helmed by Joe V. Goodman and his niece Beverly from 1942 to the mid-1990s.
But our “family” can be wide-reaching, too. Adams Press maintains relationships with a large stable of service providers and can add to the “family” as needed. If your project requires something that we don’t do, we have the ability to add a specialist to our team to make sure your book is getting the best treatment from the right people.
Jim and Tom Kepler bring more than eighty years of combined experience in publishing and book production to your project. As you might imagine, we have done almost everything in the book production process at one time or another. Our primary services include, but are not limited to:
- Development consultation
- Sales consultation
- Copy editing
- Proofreading
- Page and cover design
- Typesetting
- Ebook design and creation
- Website and author blog design, creation, and maintenance
Some of the other services Adams Press offers through our network of professionals include, but are not limited to:
- Developmental editing
- Distribution (traditional and Amazon/online sales)
- Translation and multi-lingual services
- Audiobook recording
- Podcast consulting
- Social media consulting
- SEO (search engine optimization)
- Marketing and sales
- PR (public relations) consulting
- Author representation (literary booking agent)
- Legal representation and intellectual property concerns
- Accessibility
A bit about our larger team
A wise person once said, “you don’t know what you don’t know.” We have a wealth of knowledge developed over many years and throughout countless changes to the industry, but we are also glad to connect you with the right professional from our extensive network when the need arises.
We keep our list of primary services fairly short on purpose—we want to focus on what we do well and how we can best serve our authors. We are not shy about connecting our authors with other service providers when the situation calls for it. Our years of experience also come with quite a Rolodex of connections and vendors, a cadre of skilled and thoughtful consultants who will work as hard as we do to make your book a success.
Adams Press also connects you directly to the people working on your book. We prefer to keep it simple, and our authors usually feel the same. We’ll connect you to the services you need, and you can manage that relationship yourself. No markup, no middleman slowdowns—you maintain control over your book tip to tail.
Drop us a line and we’ll discuss your publishing project. Even if your project calls for services we don’t primarily provide, we’ll do our best to help you connect to someone who can help. We’re genuinely excited to talk about books and help authors get their hard work produced, and we’re also excited to connect our professional contacts and industry friends to authors who need them.