These are service providers that I have met or been in contact with through professional organizations. I have worked with some, but not all, of these providers. I recommend that you interview them first and make sure they fit your needs.

Full Stop Editorial
www.fullstopeditorial.com
Full Stop Editorial is a full-service editing and copywriting company located in Fort Collins, Colorado. They have more than 15 years of experience writing, editing, or managing a variety of materials in an assortment of subjects and media.

Integrated Writer Services, LLC
www.writerservices.biz
Integrated Writer Services, LLC (IWS) provides professional manuscript assessment, editing, copyright clearance, and consulting services for writers of both fiction and nonfiction works.

The Writing Doctor
www.thewritingdoctor.biz
Writing-Copyediting-Proofreading-Critiquing

Munson Communications
www.munsoncommunications.com
Your complete resource for book editing, ghostwriting, copywriting and book publishing services.

Rocky Mountain Publishing Professionals Guild www.rmppg.org
RMPPG members are experienced freelance editors, proofreaders, indexers, graphic designers, writers, researchers, and other publishing specialists based on the Colorado Front Range.

The Writer's Elf
www.thewriterself.com
Your behind-the-scenes assistant when you need help writing, editing, proofreading, or just getting past writer's block.

Barbara McNichol Editorial:
She provides expert editing of quality books in business, self-help, health care, how-to, spirituality, and additional nonfiction categories.

Association of Authors' Representatives
www.aaronline.org
The Association of Authors' Representatives is a not-for-profit organization of qualified literary agents and dramatic representatives of authors, dramatists and other creators and owners of intellectual property.

If an agent is not listed with AAR, be wary.

Red Letter Creative
www.red-letter-creative.com
Book covers, layout, marketing materials, and branding services. Top quality results! This is Teresa's designer.

Full Circle
www.fullcirclemarketing.net
Marketing communications and design for everything from products to print media to Web sites.

MacGraphics Services
www.macgraphics.net
Services for graphic design, writing and editing, illustration, photography, and website design

Fred's Used Websites
www.fredsusedwebsites.com
Provides high-functionality custom websites for small businesses, organizations, and individuals.

Bizango
www.bizango.net
"We design websites for writers."
Check out their gallery of sample sites.

Craig Miles
www.crmiles.com/attorney_profiles
Intellectual property, patent, and trademark law

Santangelo Law Offices
www.idea-asset.com
Trademark and copyright

Kevin Houchin
www.houchinlaw.com
Arts law, copyright, publishing issues, etc.

Lloyd L. Rich
www.publaw.com
Publishing, business, and intellectual property rights

Jon R. Tandler
www.rcalaw.com
Business, intellectual property and publishing, and software and information technology

Brenda L. Speer
www.blspeer.com
Intellectual property law

Create Space
www.createspace.com
A free online publishing tool and Community that can help you complete and sell your work. Distribute on Amazon.com, create your own website, and work with other retailers without setup fees or inventory.

Outskirts Press at www.outskirtspress.com
Author House at www.authorhouse.com
iUniverse at www.authorhouse.com

For Very Small Print Runs:
LuLu Press at www.lulu.com

For Short-Run Printing:
Friesens at www.friesens.com
Johnson Printing at www.jpcolorado.com
Kinko at http://fedex.kinkos.com/fpfk/index.php

Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN)
www.spannet.org
The mission of SPAN is to provide benefits that make our members more successful authors and publishers. SPAN members self publish books, and are also authors, writers, independent publishing companies, and nonprofit publishers.

Colorado Independent Publishers Association
www.cipacatalog.com
CIPA is a professional association that supports and promotes self-published authors and the independent publishing industry.

Full Circle
www.fullcirclemarketing.net
Full Circle Marketing & Design does marketing communications and design for everything from products to print media to Web sites

Buy the Book Marketing
www.buythebookmarketing.com
Internet Marketing Services for Author/Entrepreneurs

How to Prepare Your Work for Submission:
The Insider’s Guide to Getting Publishedby John Boswell
The Sell Your Novel Tool Kit by Elizabeth Lyon
Formatting and Submitting Your Manuscript by Cynthia Laufenberg

Must-Have Books for starting to submit:
Writer’s Market
Literary Marketplace
Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market (fiction); Children’s Writer’s and Illustrator’s Market (children)

Self-publishing:
The Self-Publishing Manual by Dan Poynter
The Complete Guide to Self-publishing by Tom and Marilyn Ross

About Agents:
The Insider’s Guide to Getting an Agent by Lori Perkins
Literary Agents by Michael Larsen
Be Your Own Literary Agent by Martin Levine

Finding Your Agent:
Guide to Literary Agents (updated yearly)
Jeff Herman’s Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents (updated yearly)

Writing Book Proposals: Write the Perfect Book Proposal by Jeff Herman and Deborah Adams
How to Write a Book Proposal by Michael Larsen

Marketing:
1001 Ways to Market Your Books by John Kremmer
Jump Start Your Book Sales by Marilyn Ross
The Complete Guide to Book Marketing by David Cole
Guerrilla Marketing for Writers by Levinson, Frishman and Larsen
Sell Your Book on Amazon by Brent Sampson

Books on Marketing Books:
Guerrilla Marketing for Writers by Levinson, Frishman and Larsen
Jump Start Your Book Sales by Marilyn Ross
The Self-Publishing Manual by Dan Poynter