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You give the same long explanation on every first call. A book gives it once, in your words, to every prospect at the same time. They read it, they get how you work, and the call starts at the part where they want to hire you.
Tell us the method you keep explaining and the clients you want more of. Within one business day you get the path that fits and a price in writing.
The short answer
Columbia Publication publishes books for coaches and consultants three ways: the Authority System at $4,999 for a finished manuscript (copyedit, design, author website, press release), Authority Plus from $7,500 (three levels of editing, an audiobook, 15 printed copies, a launch campaign), or Gravitas Press from $25,000, up to $45,000 written with you from 15 to 18 hours of interviews. You keep 100% of rights and royalties.
Prices checked October 26, 2026 · Reviewed by Gia Kahn, Lead Editor · Next review November 2026 · How we check
Is this you?
The posts got likes. The calls still start from zero.
Most coaches try to build authority one post, one podcast and one webinar at a time. Each piece is fine. None of them shows the whole method in order, so a prospect who has seen twenty of them still asks you to start at the beginning.
A book is the one place the whole method sits in sequence, with your name on the cover. If you already have the manuscript, we edit and publish it. If you would rather talk it out, a senior writer builds it from your interviews.
Start here
Pick by one question: how much of the writing do you want to do yourself?
| Program | Price | Choose it if |
|---|---|---|
| Authority System | $4,999 | You have the manuscript and want it copyedited, designed, published and launched with an author website and press release |
| Authority Plus | From $7,500 | You have the manuscript and want the full launch: three levels of editing, an audiobook, 15 printed copies and the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign |
| Gravitas Press | From $25,000, up to $45,000 | You want the book written with you from interviews, or your manuscript elevated, under the executive imprint with PR strategy. See Gravitas Press |
Still torn? The free strategy call ends with a one-page outline from a senior editor: who the book is for, the angle, and a chapter list built from your method.
What a book does
A prospect who has read chapter three does not need you to explain chapter three. You spend the call on their situation and the start date.
“Author of” is the line organizers look for in a speaker bio, and the book is something to sell at the back of the room.
A partner who wants to recommend you can hand over the book. They no longer have to explain your work in their own words.
Each chapter can become a module, a workshop day or a group session. You build the course once the book exists, not before.
What a book earns you comes down to how you use it. We will not promise you clients, and we do not quote client results we cannot prove.
Which book fits your practice? A senior editor will tell you on the free strategy call.
Plan My BookChoosing the book
Your framework, step by step: the problem it fixes, each stage, and what it looks like when it works. This is the one most coaches should write first.
You name a problem your clients have but no one has named well, and you become the person who wrote the book on it.
How the method came to be, told through the client cases (anonymized) that forced each part of it.
Your intellectual property
Your time
About 15 to 18 hours if we write it with you, and a few proof reviews if you wrote it. Already written? Production runs 4 to 9 weeks from your approved quote, and your job is reviewing proofs. Rather talk than type? The hours go into interviews of about 45 minutes each, which works out to 20 to 24 sessions: two a week fits between client calls and finishes the talking in 10 to 12 weeks. You then review each chapter as it is drafted. Writing it with a co-author? Each of you is interviewed on your own.
When it is done
A new prospect opens the call with the book on the desk, sticky notes in chapter five. They do not ask what you do. They ask when you can start with their team, and the rest of the call is scope.
Programs
You decide how much writing you take on. We put the full price in writing before any session is booked.
You wrote it
$4,999
Your finished manuscript copyedited, a cover and interior designed, the Amazon listing optimized, plus an author website and a press release. The chapters follow the order of your framework.
For the coach whose method is already on paper and needs to look like a real book, fast.
Production typically 4 to 9 weeks
Get My Book PlanMost chosen
From $7,500
All of the Authority System, plus developmental, line and copy editing, an audiobook, 15 printed copies for your next workshop and the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign.
For the consultant launching a program or a keynote season who wants print, audio and a launch week at once.
The full launch
Get My Book PlanWritten with you
From $25,000
The book written with you from interviews, or your draft raised to executive standard, under the Gravitas Press imprint with PR strategy and 25 copies.
For the coach booked solid who will give us talk time but will never find writing time.
Up to $45,000 written with you
Get My Book PlanWhat protects you and your method
One payment, made once you approve the written quote. The framework stays yours, and so does every royalty the book earns.
What you can count on
How it runs
We’ve started with Help writing the book. Add anything else your manuscript needs, and a specialist sends an itemised quote within one business day. Free, confidential, no obligation.
Written quote within one business day. Nothing is charged until you approve it. 100% of your rights stay yours.
Questions
It runs from $4,999 to $45,000, set by how much writing you do. The Authority System, $4,999, takes your finished manuscript through copyediting, design, publishing, an author website and a press release. Authority Plus, from $7,500, adds all three levels of editing, an audiobook, 15 printed copies and the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign. Gravitas Press starts at $25,000 with your manuscript and reaches up to $45,000 when we write it with you from interviews.
No. The book explains what your method is; clients still pay you to apply it to their situation. Before writing starts we agree what goes in and what stays inside your engagements, and any client story is anonymized or used with permission.
Yes. Through Gravitas Press a senior writer builds the book from structured interviews, 15 to 18 hours of your time in sessions of about 45 minutes. You approve every chapter. If you want a ghostwriter without the imprint, ghostwriting starts from $7,500.
Usually, if you start early enough. Production takes 4 to 9 weeks once the manuscript is approved. Give us your launch or event date and the written proposal plans backward from it, so you know on day one whether it fits.
Yes. You own 100% of the rights, so the chapters can become course modules, slides, worksheets and talks with no permission needed from us.
In one payment, in full, once you approve the written quote. There is no royalty share and nothing owed later.
Yes, and it is a strong way to use it: the book as the foundation, the program as the paid way to go deeper. Your rights are 100% yours, so there is nothing to license.
Tell us the method and who it is for. A specialist answers within one business day with a path and a written price.
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