Every Book Begins Somewhere
Some begin as carefully written manuscripts.
Others begin as scattered notes, unfinished chapters, recorded thoughts, personal experiences, or simply an idea that refuses to go away.
Wherever yours begins, Alderstone Press helps you take it further. We work with new and experienced authors to develop, refine, design, publish, and promote books with a clear purpose and a distinct identity.
Because publishing is not simply about putting words on pages. It is about creating a book people will want to pick up, read, remember, and share.
Where Are You in Your Publishing Journey?
There is no single starting point for becoming an author. Choose the stage that sounds most like yours.
I Have an Idea
You know the story you want to tell, but turning it into a complete manuscript feels difficult. Our story development and ghostwriting team can help organise your ideas, develop your concept, establish the right voice, and build your book from the ground up.
I Have a Manuscript
The writing is complete, but the book still needs another set of experienced eyes. Our editors can assess, refine, and strengthen your manuscript while protecting the voice and intention that make it yours.
I'm Ready to Publish
Your manuscript is finished. Now it needs to become a book. From interior formatting and cover design to print and digital preparation, we help prepare your work for publication.
My Book Is Already Published
Publication is a milestone, not the end of the journey. Build your author presence and introduce your book to more readers through strategic marketing, promotional content, author branding, and digital visibility.
Publishing, Built Around Your Book
A book passes through many hands before it reaches a reader. Writers. Editors. Designers. Illustrators. Publishing specialists. Marketing professionals.
At Alderstone Press, these stages are brought together through one coordinated publishing process. That means your manuscript does not have to feel like a collection of disconnected services. From the language on the page to the design on the cover, every element should feel as though it belongs to the same book.
What We Do
Comprehensive editorial, creative, publishing, and promotional services tailored to your book.
Ghostwriting & Book Development
Turn the story in your head into the manuscript in your hands.
You do not need to arrive with a finished draft. Bring us your idea, notes, recordings, research, memories, or incomplete chapters. Our writing team can help develop the structure and manuscript while keeping the story rooted in your experiences, ideas, and intended voice.
Explore GhostwritingEditing & Proofreading
Strong writing deserves careful editing.
Editing should strengthen a manuscript without removing the personality that made it worth writing. Depending on what your book needs, our editorial process can address structure, pacing, clarity, consistency, grammar, punctuation, readability, and final polish.
Explore Editorial ServicesBook Cover Design
Readers meet the cover before they meet the story.
A successful cover should communicate genre, tone, audience, and personality almost instantly. Our designers develop custom book covers intended to make your title visually distinctive while remaining appropriate for its market and readership.
Explore Cover DesignInterior Design & Formatting
A good book should feel as considered inside as it looks outside.
Typography, spacing, chapter openings, margins, image placement, and page structure all influence the reading experience. We prepare carefully designed interiors for digital and print editions, including eBook, paperback, and hardcover formats.
Explore Book FormattingBook Illustration
Some stories need to be seen as well as read.
From children's books and educational titles to illustrated narratives and visual projects, we develop artwork around the tone, characters, audience, and world of the book. Consistency is considered throughout the project so that individual illustrations work together as part of one visual story.
Explore IllustrationPublishing Support
From finished files to a published book.
Publishing involves more than uploading a manuscript. Our team helps prepare the files, formats, metadata, and other publishing elements needed to move a completed book toward digital and print publication. You remain involved throughout the process and understand what is happening at each stage.
Explore PublishingBook Marketing
Publishing makes your book available. Marketing helps people discover it.
Our promotional services are designed to help authors establish visibility around their books through strategic content, social media, promotional materials, online positioning, and campaign planning. Every book is different, so its marketing strategy should be too.
Explore Book MarketingAuthor Branding & Websites
Build an identity readers can follow beyond a single book.
Your author presence can become an important part of how readers discover, recognise, and connect with your work. We help develop author websites, biographies, visual identities, social media presentation, and supporting digital content around your publishing goals.
Build My Author PresenceHow Publishing With Alderstone Press Works
Books Are Different. Their Publishing Should Be Too.
We work across a range of genres and formats, adapting the editorial and creative approach to the audience each book is intended to reach.
Fiction
Stories built around memorable characters, compelling worlds, and carefully developed narratives.
Explore Fiction PublishingMemoir & Biography
Personal histories deserve sensitivity, structure, and a voice that still feels unmistakably human.
Explore Memoir PublishingChildren's Books
Writing, illustration, design, and age-appropriate presentation brought together to create engaging books for younger readers.
Explore Children's PublishingBusiness & Professional Books
Turn expertise, experience, and ideas into books that communicate authority and provide lasting value.
Explore Business PublishingInspirational & Faith-Based Books
Thoughtfully present messages of belief, personal growth, reflection, and purpose.
Explore Inspirational PublishingEducational & How-To Books
Transform knowledge into structured, accessible content designed to help readers understand and apply what they learn.
Explore Educational PublishingGeneral Non-Fiction
From history and lifestyle to personal development and specialist subjects, we help organise complex ideas into engaging books.
Explore Non-Fiction PublishingFeatured Books
Every finished book represents months, sometimes years, of ideas, decisions, revisions, and creative work. Explore selected projects and discover how manuscripts have been developed through editing, design, illustration, publishing, and promotional support.
Your Name Belongs on More Than a Draft.
Publishing can become complicated very quickly. Our role is to make the journey easier to understand without taking the author out of it.
Your Voice Comes First
Editing and development should strengthen what makes your writing distinctive rather than make every author sound the same.
A Connected Team
Writing, editing, design, publishing, and marketing can be coordinated as parts of the same project.
You Stay Involved
Important creative decisions are collaborative. Your feedback remains part of the process from manuscript development through final production.
Your Book Remains Yours
Your work, ideas, and author identity remain at the centre of the publishing process.
Built for the Reader
Every editorial and creative decision eventually reaches one person: the reader. We keep that reader in mind while developing the manuscript, presentation, and positioning of your book.
Support Beyond Publication
For authors who need it, our work can continue beyond publication through marketing, websites, branding, and promotional strategy.
We Believe Good Publishing Begins by Listening.
Alderstone Press exists to help authors move from possibility to publication with greater clarity, stronger creative support, and a process built around the individual book.
We work with writers at different stages. Some arrive with complete manuscripts. Some arrive with half-written chapters. Some arrive with nothing more than a story they have carried for years.
What matters is not where the book begins. What matters is what it can become.
Our approach brings together editorial development, design, publishing preparation, and promotional support while keeping the author's voice and purpose at the centre of the project. Because the best publishing relationship should not make an author feel removed from their book. It should help them recognise what made the book theirs in the first place.
Meet Our Team
Our dedicated team of editors, designers, publishing strategists, and marketing specialists collaborates seamlessly to deliver exceptional publishing results.
Andrew Townsend
Head of Marketing and Publishing
Harvey Greene
Sr. Business Consultant
Veronica Fallon
Head of Projects
Shane Walter
Country Head
Mike Watson
Business Consultant
Norah Albair
Senior Publishing Consultant
The Book Is Theirs. So Is the Achievement.
Behind every project is an author who decided their story was worth finishing. Here, authors share their experiences of developing manuscripts, making creative decisions, navigating publication, and finally seeing their work become a finished book.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about working with Alderstone Press to develop, publish, and promote your book.
Our Locations in UK
London, UK
71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ
