Noelle Carter had built something genuinely amazing. In seven years, she had grown her independent publishing company from a one-woman operation working out of a home office into a recognized boutique press with a catalog of over forty titles, a small but dedicated team, and a reputation in the independent publishing community for discovering voices that larger houses overlooked. She had done it through instinct, relationships, and an almost inconvenient amount of drive.

Serena Blackwell had waited eleven years to hold her debut novel in her hands. A middle school librarian by day and a writer by night, she had revised the manuscript through three agents, two near-misses with major publishers, and one global pandemic before finally landing a two-book deal with a respected independent press.

Do you have a brilliant idea for your book but struggling to finish it? Are you on a tight deadline but can’t type fast enough? Are you...