Human Touch
One AngryPages representative. Your whole publishing journey.
You do not need to understand publishing before you begin.
You do not need to know how to structure the book, prepare the files, set the price, build the page or decide what happens next.
With Human Touch, an AngryPages representative personally learns your project and helps you carry it from the idea in your head to a published book in the world.
Not a help article. Not a chatbot sending you in circles.
A real person at AngryPages who knows your name, knows your work and knows what you are trying to achieve.
Someone at AngryPages knows your book
Publishing becomes exhausting when every conversation starts again.
You explain the story to one person. The manuscript to another. The problem to someone else. Nobody understands the whole project, so you become responsible for managing the people who were supposed to help you.
Human Touch works differently.
Your AngryPages representative stays close to the project. They understand where it began, what has already been decided and what still needs to happen.
When you return, you do not return as a ticket number.
You return as the author of a book we know.
Start with whatever you have
You may have:
- an idea;
- handwritten pages;
- a Word document;
- a finished manuscript;
- a PDF;
- photographs and notes;
- an old book worth bringing back;
- or a story you know matters but do not yet know how to present.
Send what you have.
We look at the real material first. Then we help you understand the next useful step.
You do not need to buy every service. You do not need to make the book perfect before speaking to us. You only need something worth carrying forward.
Through the whole journey
The idea
We help you see what the project could become.
A memoir, children’s book, collection, diary, public record or something AngryPages has not published before.
We help separate the book from everything surrounding it, so you know what you are actually building.
The draft
We help you work out what is missing, what is already strong and what should be left alone.
Some books need editing. Some need organisation. Some become weaker when too many people polish the life out of them.
We help you tell the difference.
The publication
We help move the work into AngryPages.
That can include preparing the book page, arranging the material, checking the presentation, choosing a price and deciding how readers will experience it.
If the project needs proofreading, co-editing, translation, a cover, audio or printing, we help you reach the right service without making you discover the entire system alone.
Out into the world
Publication is not the end of our interest.
We help you understand what readers are seeing, how the book is being presented and what the next useful move may be.
That could mean improving the sales page, preparing another edition, translating the work, approaching a new audience or building the next book.
You are still the author.
You are simply no longer carrying every decision alone.
We do not take over your voice
Human Touch is not a factory for turning your work into something generic.
We do not replace your story with ours. We do not make every author sound the same. We do not force a personal book to behave like a corporate document.
We help the work become publishable while protecting the reason it deserved publication.
Your name remains on it.
Your voice remains inside it.
The decisions are made with you.
The difference between support and Human Touch
Ordinary support fixes an account problem.
Human Touch understands the project.
Support can tell you where a button is. Your representative can help you decide whether pressing it is the right move for your book.
Support answers the question in front of it.
Human Touch remembers where you are going.
Who it is for
Human Touch is for the person who could publish alone but would rather have someone at AngryPages care whether the project succeeds.
It is especially useful when:
- this is your first book;
- the material is personal or complicated;
- you are unsure where to begin;
- you have files but no finished publication;
- several AngryPages services may be involved;
- or you simply want a real person beside you.
You do not need to be famous.
You do not need to know the publishing language.
You need a project, and the willingness to work with us until it becomes real.
What happens after you begin
You send us your project and explain what you want it to become.
An AngryPages representative reviews it, speaks with you and helps establish the path forward.
That person remains familiar with the work as it moves through AngryPages.
Some projects move quickly. Others need time. Human Touch is not a promise that every submission will be published. It is a promise that you will not be left alone trying to understand what is happening.
What it costs
$30 for Human Touch on one publishing project.
This covers the personal guidance and continuity around your journey.
Specialist work such as extensive editing, translation, cover design, audio production or printing is separate. We explain that before anything is added.
You can use AngryPages without Human Touch.
You can prepare and publish your work yourself.
This is for the author who would rather know that someone here has learned the story—and is helping carry it.