Hi I’m Gayla Groom. I run Gems Press, a small publisher offering book writing and editing, manuscript layout, and Kindle book creation. I’m a Carbondale resident.
I’m good at producing Kindle books that look great even when they contain difficult formatting. Here’s a huge book I turned into a Kindle that has hundreds of footnotes, sidebars, and illustrations. I did the original editing and page layout on this book, too.
I’m also what they call a “book doctor.” I can take a manuscript that has value but is in terrible shape and make it something to be proud of.
I also do ghostwriting — you tell me what you want book-wise, we talk, I write it up nicely, we put your name on it as the author.
Gems Press publishes its own series of books, specializing in curated gems of information resurrected from old books and documents. A recent book is Courtly Quips & Gentry Gems: The Best of Early English Wit. It’s a collection of hundreds of the best authentic quips, jests, bon mots, anecdotes, quotations, poems, etc. from the 1700s and 1800s — many appearing for the first time in a modern format.
Also digitized for the first time is A Collection of Tracts, on the Subjects of Taxing the British Colonies in America, and Regulating Their Trade. Volume I. Doesn’t sound that exciting, but it kind of is, if you enjoy reading well-reasoned arguments on weighty issues, in learned 18th-century language — these tracts were published in 1773, as the force of the coming American Revolutionary War was building.
You can sign up for my mailing list, and I’ll let you know when Gems Press runs free promotions for our books. You can contact me by email at gayla (at) gemspress.earth.
