Booknook.biz Reviews

After several months of witnessing how helpful “Hitch” was to authors on the KDP community forum, I hired her company, BookNook.biz, to format my next book which happened to be an educational appeal to kids on the environment. I had previously collaborated with a marine mammal zoologist and collected tons of high-resolution underwater photos of sea creatures and ocean life. Although I’d conceptualized what I thought the book would/should look like, Kimberly Hitchens (aka. “Hitch”) and her capable team of designers not only brought it to life but produced a product far beyond my expectations. They also created multiple versions of it to meet national and international standards for digital, paperback, and hardcover. Since its release, “Pogo the Porpoise with a Purpose” has received two national awards – Best Children’s Educational Book from the Independent Press and a finalist for Best Books on the Environment from National Indie Excellence Awards. Despite wanting to take credit for these honors, BookNook.biz played a huge role in Pogo’s award-worthiness. Hitch and her team are such a creative group, and I am thrilled to have partnered with them on this project. If you are lucky enough to work with these folks, trust them to do their thing. They’re very good at what they do and dedicated to their craft. Kudos, Hitch, and thanks again for everything!
P.S. Yay for “Pogo the Porpoise with a Purpose” 😊 Lorie Givens, Author

I am the author of eight books. So, I can assure you I know the level of effort that goes into writing one. When your baby is born, you don’t want to place it in the care of just anyone. That’s why I strongly recommend that you partner with Booknook.biz

This is the second time I partnered with Hitch’s organization. I think the world of them!!! They are knowledgeable, experienced, and a joy to work with.

I pride myself in finding top notch people/organizations and letting them do their magic. Once you hand your project over to Hitch’s team, you never have to worry. If they say they’ll do something, consider it done. It’s refreshing to find an organization that prides itself on the highest level of integrity and professionalism. I recommend Booknook.biz without reservation.

Frank Sonnenberg

Award-winning author of eight books and a well-known advocate for moral character, personal values, and personal responsibility

The team was fantastic to work with! The process was easy and the end result was fantastic. We will definitely work with Booknook again on future projects!

Booknookbiz combines top professional service, a friendly, caring and even fun attitude, and very reasonable charges. I don’t think you can do any better than that. The caring aspect includes patience, useful advice, and respect for the project, while the professional angle includes a clean, quality product delivered in a timely manner. I used them for an e-book conversion, but received more than that from the upbeat, personable owner, Hitch. I was also very happy with the understanding shown by Barb, who did the conversion. In particular over some layout concerns, such as the need for poetry excerpts amid the narrative to read neatly and not sprawl all over the page, as is often the case. This is a place which clearly takes pride in working smoothly with the client.

The folks at Booknookbiz are extremely responsive and competent. I was having monumental technical difficulties uploading PDFs for paperback publication by KDP. I had tried solving my issue with KDP support and google, but was getting nowhere. Booknookbiz responded right away and aggressively tackled my issue until it was solved. Highly recommended.

I have very much enjoyed my experience with Booknook.Biz. Rather than spend months working my way through the challenging process of producing files for KDP in a field totally alien to me, I spent that period working alongside Booknook.Biz to produce the best outcome any author could wish for. Their attention to detail is awesome and their honesty in giving me feedback where my ignorance of publishing would have diminished the end product, has been very much valued and appreciated. Whenever I have encountered difficulties it was due to my lack of understanding of the plentiful information provided (and there are tons of it, believe you me!) and every effort was made to find a way to remedy my failures in ways that would not kill my bank account and still get me the result I was aiming for. I asked for the best, and that's what I got! The unfailing sense of humor that pervades everything Booknook.Biz does has been the cherry on the cake and it has made dealing with them a real delight.

Out of a "Universe" of manuscript companies out there, I selected "BookNookBiz" and have never had any reason to look elsewhere. I've published two books through them to date. Their team members exemplify the term 'personable' and are a joy to interact with. They are true experts in every aspect of manuscript conversion and publishing. I was truly impressed with the cover that was done by an amazing artist within their organization; capturing the essence of my written adventure exactly! Both the Kindle and Print version covers "SPARKLE" when viewed on internet Ads. Kudos to each and every one of the team members I interacted with. No question was left unanswered and I profited from the expertise of them all. Writing is a challenging endeavor for anyone; publishing another challenge altogether. BNB has the expertise to knock down walls and eliminate road bumps to get your work out there where the public can enjoy it. Their rates are reasonable; their advice priceless! My highest accolade - Buy with confidence!

As a first time author, I probably had as many questions as the length of my book itself. Booknook.biz took all the time and patience needed to help me get them the information they needed to produce an excellent product. The cover design, fonts, layouts and suggestions were all delivered in prompt fashion and good humor (a necessary ingredient in this endeavor). Trying to convert your manuscript yourself for publishing comes under the category of "don't try this at home". These are the people that will make your dream come true.

I had a great experience working with Booknook. They converted three large MS Word manuscripts to eBooks, giving me all the information and support I needed to get the job done with no hassles and right on time.They did everything they said they would do and the price was right in my budget, too. They know what they're doing and they deliver! I highly recommend Booknook. I'm already working with them on my next project.

Timely services and friendly and easy-to-understand customer service!

Thanks, Hitch, Jayzel and all for helping me get our book edited. You were very patient with me all through the process!

BookNook went far beyond what they had to do to get my book in print. It was my first attempt at self publishing and I had many questions. They displayed lots of patience, even when I asked the same question again because I didn't know how to do something. They had formatting and publishing knowledge and skills in abundance. I can't say enough about Hitch and Jayzel, two wonderful helpers. Thank you both for my book. Without you there would not have been a book. Ray.

I can't speak highly enough about this company and the extraordinary level of skill, service, and professionalism they provide. The communication was top-notch throughout the process of putting my book together. I always had emails returned promptly, and with clear, patient instructions to help me understand the techie side of things (definitely not my strong point). I had published three books previously with CreateSpace, and was at a bit of a loss when Amazon shut down that side of their operation.

I felt their pricing structure was very reasonable, and their turnaround time on edits was lightning fast. Overall, I ended up saving both time and money working with Booknook over my three previous experiences (all of which were very good) with CreateSpace. I've already scheduled my next project with this company and have recommended them to several close friends working on book projects too. Booknook takes care of all those important techie details that keep so many writers, unfortunately, from finishing up their books and getting them out there into the marketplace.

Give Booknook a try and get ready to get wowed.

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I feel covers sell books and they did an excellent job. Every one was very pleasant to work with and tolerated my impatience at times. I had prepaid another self publishing company and dropped them and I am glad I did. If I write another book it will be with Booknook

They are the best. Hitch, Jayzel, and everyone there are friendly, creative, encouraging, and endlessly patient with someone who knew nothing. I had previously published with six different publishers, but never on Kindle.No company could have been better. I will go to them for my next book.

Where to begin in providing a testimonial of this dynamic team?
First of all, folks, these guys ARE the experts when it comes to interior book design and self-publishing. If you’re unsure, just visit the KDP Community Forum, and you will find that Booknook’s fearless leader, Kimberly Hitchens (fondly referred to as Hitch) has invested countless hours in providing extremely helpful feedback to many authors' questions.
From my initial query about Booknook.biz, and throughout my copious amount of emails of questions, concerns, edits and revisions, Hitch always provided timely replies, making the process enjoyable through her quick wit and upbeat responses. As all self-publishers know, the entire procedure is extremely time consuming and tedious, yet I never felt that I was a bother to them, but rather, they treated my project as if it were the most important book they had ever worked on.
Their instruction pages were clear, detailed, and well organized. Their patience seems unlimited (including that of Jayzel, “the Doyenne of Customer Delight”. I have a collection of several pages of emails from Hitch and Jayzel covering the span of time they were helping me. So if you’re looking for “the personal touch,” these are the go-to guys.
Lastly, I found that beyond all the personal attention, their fees were extremely reasonable. If they’re getting rich, it would have to be on sheer volume of clients, as individually, they certainly couldn’t have made much profit on my project considering all the time they invested in me.
I honestly believe that anyone who happens upon this fab team of book designers and signs up for their help will be as astounded as I am! I’m certainly glad that I chose Booknook.biz over my other considerations. Nobody could have done better.

They are fast, with a lots of details and steps.

Thanks!

They guided me through a new to me process, with skill and a friendly hand. Very

Excellent service. High quality and quick turnaround. Very informative instructions on how to go through the entire process.