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Publishing for board-certified plastic surgeons
People choosing a surgeon research for months. They look at photos, threads and prices. A book on their procedure, in your words, shows them who is a good candidate and how you work, before they ever book.
List the procedures you want to be known for. Within one business day you get the path we suggest and its price, in writing.
The short answer
Columbia Publication publishes books for plastic surgeons in three ways: the Authority System at $4,999 for your finished manuscript, Authority Plus from $7,500 with full editing, an audiobook and 15 copies, or Gravitas Press from $25,000, up to $45,000 written with you in about 15 to 18 hours of interviews. You sign off every clinical statement. Rights and royalties stay 100% yours.
Prices checked October 26, 2026 · Reviewed by Gia Kahn, Lead Editor · Next review November 2026 · How we check
Is this you?
A gallery shows results. It cannot show the decision behind them.
Your future patient has scrolled before-and-after photos, read the forum threads and watched the videos. By the time they sit down, they are comparing quotes. Almost nothing they found explains how you decide who is a candidate, or why you chose one technique over another.
A book gives them that while they are still deciding. We draw it out of you in interviews, check every clinical statement with you, and publish it under your name.
Start here
The deciding question is simple: do you want to write it, or talk it?
| 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 |
Weighing the options? The strategy call is free. A senior editor looks at the procedures you want to be known for and sends back a one-page outline: the angle, the reader and the chapters.
What a book does
It changes who walks in, and what the first half hour is spent on.
A patient who has read your chapter already knows your approach, so the time goes on their anatomy and their plan.
The bargain hunter rarely reads a book first. The patient who does has already chosen your way of working.
Revision patients research harder than anyone. Written work on that procedure gets you onto their shortlist.
Published work supports society positions, teaching invitations and advisory seats.
What it does depends on how you use it. We do not promise outcomes, and we do not publish client figures we cannot back up.
Not sure which book suits your practice? Ask on the free strategy call.
Plan My Procedure BookChoosing the book
The narrower the book, the better it works. Three shapes come up most:
A single procedure family for patients weeks before they consult: rhinoplasty, breast augmentation and revision, post-pregnancy reconstruction, body contouring or facial rejuvenation.
Candidacy, patient selection and where enhancement ends and overcorrection begins, for patients choosing between surgeons.
A method you developed or a series of complex cases, often for senior surgeons moving into training or advisory work.
Professional rules
Not if the rules are built in from the outline. Here is how we handle each one:
Your time
About 15 to 18 hours if we write it with you, spread across interviews of about 45 minutes that fit around your surgery days. You read each chapter as it is drafted. In practice that is roughly the time of two consultation clinics, spread over a few months. If you already have a manuscript, production takes 4 to 9 weeks from an approved quote. Writing with a partner? Each of you is interviewed on your own.
When it is done
A patient sits down holding your book, corners turned down on three pages. They know who you operate on and why you prefer your technique. They chose you for that. The first question is about their plan, not your price.
Programs
Three paths. Each is quoted in writing before your practice pays anything.
You wrote it
$4,999
Your manuscript copyedited, then cover and interior design, an Amazon listing set up to be found, an author website and a press release. Written for patients researching one procedure.
For the surgeon who already wrote it: a finished book a patient can find tonight and read before they call your office.
Production typically 4 to 9 weeks
Get My Book PlanMost chosen
From $7,500
Everything in the Authority System, plus all three levels of editing, an audiobook, 15 printed copies and the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign.
Copies for the consultation rooms, an audio edition for patients who listen in the car, and a launch week that reaches new patients.
The full launch
Get My Book PlanWritten with you
From $25,000
Written with you from interviews, or your draft raised to the imprint's standard, with PR strategy and 25 copies.
For a full operating calendar: the book patients judge you by, written from your conversations, with no weekends lost to writing.
Up to $45,000 written with you
Get My Book PlanWhat keeps your reputation safe
One payment, made after you approve the quote. Every copy sold pays its royalty to you.
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
$4,999 for the Authority System: your manuscript copyedited, designed, published and launched with an author website and press release. Authority Plus starts at $7,500 and adds all three levels of editing, an audiobook, 15 printed copies and the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign. Gravitas Press runs from $25,000 with your manuscript to $45,000 written with you from interviews.
Not when it is written with those reviewers in mind. The book makes no outcome promises and no before-and-after guarantees. Claims on complications, recovery and results are checked against peer-reviewed literature or your own experience, and you sign every page. We do not write off-label device or implant promotion. Cases are de-identified or used with written consent. Your carrier's marketing review or the credentialing office can read it before print.
Yes. Through Gravitas Press a senior writer drafts it from structured interviews, about 15 to 18 hours of your time in all. You approve each chapter. Ghostwriting outside the imprint starts from $7,500.
About 4 to 9 weeks of production once the manuscript is approved. If we write it with you, a drafting phase comes first, and your proposal dates it.
Yes. You own 100% of the rights and royalties, so the book, the cover and the content are yours to use in your marketing and to hand to patients.
In one payment, once you approve the written quote. Nothing is billed later.
Yes, and it is one of the strongest topics. Revision patients research the hardest, so a book on that procedure gets read.
A line on your practice and the book you have in mind. A specialist writes back within one business day.
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