For Small Presses

Standardize early manuscript development across your list.

Small presses often receive promising material in uneven forms: essays, talks, memoir fragments, teaching notes, and half-assembled drafts. COAB gives your team a repeatable intake workflow before editorial investment.

A strong fit for

  • Multi-author or backlist development projects
  • Authors with valuable expertise but messy files
  • Early acquisitions that need structure validation
  • Editorial teams that need a consistent first pass
Professional Workflow

A repeatable first pass for manuscript development.

COAB is not a replacement for your professional judgment. It gives you a faster way to organize the material before the deeper human work begins.

1

Assign one slot per book project

2

Upload author-provided source files

3

Review the structure before moving deeper into editorial

4

Export DOCX for your normal production pipeline

Built for source material, not blank pages.

Concepts of a Book works best when the author already has sermons, journals, interviews, essays, talks, notes, PDFs, DOCX files, or transcripts. The product helps turn that material into a coherent outline and manuscript draft.