Building a Platform for Educational Voices to Rise
Who We Publish
- Educational Authors
- Therapists & Specialists
- Parents with Systems
- Emerging Authors
- Childrens Book Authors
- Young Creators
The Publishing Process
Publishing Services:
Editing & Development
Every great book starts with a vision and a fearless edit. Our editorial team walks alongside you from first draft to final manuscript, whether you’re a seasoned curriculum developer refining a course, an educator turning classroom expertise into a published guide, or an emerging young author discovering the power of their own voice for the very first time. We offer developmental editing that strengthens structure and narrative arc, line editing that sharpens your prose sentence by sentence, and meticulous proofreading that catches what everyone else missed. We don’t rewrite your voice. We reveal it, at any age, at any stage.
Formatting & Layout
A beautifully written book, or a thoughtfully designed curriculum, deserves a beautifully built interior. Our formatting team handles typesetting, page composition, chapter headers, margins, and flow across print and digital formats. Whether we’re laying out a children’s picture book, structuring an educational course workbook, or formatting an emerging author’s very first published story, we design for readability, pacing, and that satisfying feeling when a page just looks right. From trim size selection to e-book optimization, every detail is intentional, every layout decision made with your reader, or your learner, in mind.
Illustration & Design
Words delicately paint pictures. There are times when illustrations can be used to bring those words to life. Our creative team matches you with illustrators who produce original illustrations in your author style and tone, custom artwork, infographics, and decorative elements tailored to your project’s world. Full-color spreads for a children’s title, activity page art for an educational workbook, spot illustrations for a chapter book, diagrams that make complex curricula click… we design visuals that don’t just accompany your content, they elevate it. And for our youngest emerging authors, the ones whose imaginations run faster than their pencils, our illustrators step in to capture the stories they dream up but can’t yet write down, giving their vision a form the whole world can see.
Cover Direction
You’ve heard it a thousand times: don’t judge a book by its cover. Readers do it anyway, and so do parents, teachers, and librarians. That’s why we obsess over yours. From initial concept and mood boarding through typography, color palette, imagery, and full front-to-back layout, including spine and back cover, we craft covers that stop thumbs mid-scroll and pull hands toward shelves. Whether it’s a bold curriculum guide, an emerging author’s debut, or a story meant to spark a child’s imagination, your cover isn’t just packaging. It’s a promise to your reader, and we make sure it’s one worth keeping.
ISBN & Distribution
The behind-the-scenes work that puts your book in front of the world. We handle ISBN registration, barcode generation, Library of Congress cataloging, and metadata optimization, then set up distribution across major retailers, online platforms, school suppliers, and library systems. Manuscripts, curricula, educational courses, and emerging author titles alike, we build the infrastructure so your work is discoverable, purchasable, and accessible wherever readers, educators, and families are already looking. Print-on-demand, wholesale, global reach… we handle it all so you can focus on what you do best.
Author Amplification
Publication is the starting line, not the finish. Our amplification team helps you build a platform that lasts… crafting your author or educator brand, developing marketing strategy, creating social media content kits, writing press-ready bios, assembling media kits, and coordinating launch campaigns. For our emerging authors, we go further, building age-appropriate author profiles, celebrating their achievement across our platforms, and giving them a spotlight that shows the world what the next generation of storytellers can do. We don’t just hand you a megaphone. We help you find your stage, your audience, and the confidence to own both.
Who Can Submit?
- ~Educators
- ~Specialists
- ~Parents
- ~Guardians
- ~Therapists
- ~Teachers
- ~Young Writers (with parent permission)
- ~Established Authors
- ~Emerging Authors
Emerging Authors
Never Published Before?
Every person has a story worth telling, and age is never a barrier to becoming a published author. At NGL Press, emerging authors aren’t a side project. They’re the heartbeat of what we do. We specialize in helping young storytellers bring their ideas to life, whether they’re writing it themselves, dictating it to a parent, or dreaming up worlds they can’t yet put on paper. But we also open our doors to first-time authors of any age who are ready to take that leap from idea to published work. From concept to finished book, we provide professional editing, illustration, design, and publishing support to turn imagination into something real. Something you can hold in your hands and share with the world. Because the best time to tell someone their voice matters is right now. You dream it, we build it, the world gets to read it.
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