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Patients considering an elective procedure search your name before they call. A book on exactly their procedure, in your words, lets them spend real time with how you think before the first appointment, and it does that work while you are in the operating room.
Tell us your specialty and the procedure patients ask you about most. A specialist replies within one business day with the path that fits and a written price.
The short answer
Columbia Publication publishes books for surgeons through three programs: the Authority System at $4,999 (your manuscript copyedited, designed, published and launched with an author website and press release), Authority Plus from $7,500 (editing at all three levels, an audiobook, 15 printed copies and the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign), and the Gravitas Press imprint from $25,000 with your manuscript, up to $45,000 written with you from structured interviews, about fifteen to eighteen hours of your time. Every manuscript is written to the professional rules that apply to you and signed off by you before print, and 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?
A directory listing cannot show how you think about a case.
Prospective patients who search for a surgeon in your specialty find listings, competitor websites with stock photos and a scatter of reviews. None of it shows your case selection, your standard of care or why you operate the way you do. Marketing gets whatever time is left after clinic, the OR and call, which usually means none.
A book carries your surgical philosophy into the patient’s home for the weeks they spend deciding. We build it around your schedule: structured interviews, a writer who captures your voice, a clinical accuracy review you sign off, and publication under your name.
Start here
Three programs, depending on what the book has to do and how much you want to write 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 deciding? Book the free strategy call. A senior editor talks through your procedure focus and sends a one-page outline of the angle, reader and chapters.
What a book does
A patient who has read your book understands the procedure and your approach, so the consultation can focus on their case.
A signed copy gives referring physicians a concrete way to explain why they are sending a patient to you.
Journalists, podcasts and program committees look for experts who have published on the topic.
Not a substitute for peer-reviewed work, but a sustained piece of writing that credentialing and appointment committees can see.
Results depend on how the book is used. We do not promise outcomes, and we do not publish client figures we cannot evidence.
Not sure which book fits your practice? The free strategy call answers that.
Get My Book PlanChoosing the book
One procedure or procedure family, for patients two to six weeks before consultation: hip replacement, breast reconstruction, spinal fusion, ACL reconstruction.
Your approach to patient care and case selection, for referring physicians, journalists and patients choosing between surgeons.
A defining case, a technique you developed, or lessons from decades in the OR, often for surgeons moving into teaching or advisory roles.
Professional rules
Your time
If you write the manuscript yourself, production takes 4 to 9 weeks from an approved quote. If you would rather talk than write, a senior writer builds the book from structured interviews: about fifteen to eighteen hours of your time in total, in sessions of about forty-five minutes scheduled around your calendar, plus a review of each chapter. Co-authored books are welcome; each author is interviewed separately.
When it is done
A patient sits down for a consultation and says they read your chapter on their procedure last week. They already understand the options and your approach. Your book sits in the waiting room and on Amazon, referring physicians hand it to their patients, and the conference committee invites you back.
Programs
Three paths, each quoted in writing before you commit an hour of operating-room time to it.
You wrote it
$4,999
Your manuscript copyedited, a cover and interior designed, Amazon listing optimized, plus an author website and press release. Built for the procedure patients ask about most.
A finished book on your procedure, live on Amazon with a website behind it, ready to hand patients at consultation.
Production typically 4 to 9 weeks
Get My Book PlanMost chosen
From $7,500
Everything in the Authority System, plus developmental, line and copy editing, an audiobook, 15 printed copies and the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign. Ready for the waiting room and referring physicians.
The full launch for a surgeon who wants the book in every format, in the waiting room and in front of referring physicians in launch week.
The full launch
Get My Book PlanWritten with you
From $25,000
Your manuscript elevated, or written with you from interviews between cases, published under the executive imprint with PR strategy and 25 copies. For surgeons who would rather talk than type.
A book in your voice without writing a word between cases: you talk, you approve, the imprint carries it to media and conferences.
Up to $45,000 written with you
Get My Book PlanWhat protects you and your practice
One payment, in full, after you approve the written quote. Every page, every royalty and every right stays with 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
The Authority System is $4,999 for your manuscript copyedited, designed, published and launched with an author website and press release. Authority Plus, from $7,500, adds editing at all three levels, an audiobook, 15 printed copies and the 3-Day Bestseller Launch Campaign. Gravitas Press starts from $25,000 with your manuscript and goes up to $45,000 written with you from interviews.
No outcome guarantees. The book describes procedures and approaches in general terms. Literature-checked claims. Clinical statements are checked against published literature or your own clinical experience, and you sign off every page. Patient privacy. Cases are de-identified, or used only with written consent. No off-label promotion and no comparisons with named surgeons. Your employer’s rules. If you work in a hospital system, check whether publications need approval.
Yes. Through Gravitas Press a senior writer builds it from structured interviews, about fifteen to eighteen hours of your time, booked around your OR days. You approve every chapter. Ghostwriting outside the imprint starts from $7,500.
Production takes 4 to 9 weeks once your manuscript is approved. A book written from interviews adds an interview and drafting phase, dated in your written proposal.
Not from us. You keep 100% of rights and royalties. If your employment agreement says anything about publications, check it before you sign.
In full upfront, once you approve the written quote. No retainers, no royalties shared with us.
Any. Our editorial team has worked on orthopedic, cardiothoracic, plastic and reconstructive, urology, neurosurgery, general surgery, ophthalmology and otolaryngology manuscripts.
Tell us the procedure patients ask you about most. A specialist replies within one business day.
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