From your manuscript to a new shelf, in four steps.
You write the book once. We make sure it still sounds like you in German, Spanish or Portuguese — and a real editor signs their name to it.
- ●Free 2-chapter sample in 24h
- ●Named human editor
- ●You keep every right
- Day 0
You send the manuscript
A file and two minutes. No contract, no card.
- Day 1
You read two chapters
Your free sample, plus a note on anything we'd handle differently.
- Weeks 2–4
We translate the book
Five passes, finished by a native-speaker editor named on the title page.
- Launch
You publish to new readers
Files ready for Amazon, Kobo and print — and they're yours outright.
Why it reads like a book, not a machine.
Each pass fixes a specific way translations go wrong — losing a character's voice, renaming things halfway through, sounding stiff.
- 01
Read
Before a word is translated, the whole manuscript is read for a book bible: every character, invented term, place name, motif, and the address matrix that governs how characters speak to each other.
- 02
Draft
The book is translated in scene-length passes, each one carrying the bible plus the preceding source and the preceding translation. That backward context is what keeps a voice continuous across three hundred pages.
- 03
Revise
A separate pass reads source and translation side by side and rewrites for register drift, glossary breaks and calque — the sentences that are accurate and still sound translated.
- 04
Check
Deterministic checks, not opinions: expansion ratio per scene, glossary violations, untranslated fragments, numbers and dates, collapsed paragraphs, and back-translation divergence on a sample.
- 05
Edit
A named human editor who works in that language resolves every flag, and in the Publication tier reads and edits the entire manuscript line by line.
When we're the wrong fit.
We'd rather tell you now than after you've paid. If your book is one of these, we'll say so in the free sample.
Poetry and verse
We decline it. Metre and sound cannot be rebuilt by this process, and pretending otherwise would waste your money.
Prize-list literary fiction
A book whose sentences are the event needs a literary translator with a name and eight months. We will tell you this before invoicing, not after.
Heavy wordplay
Puns, acrostics and invented language get flagged and solved by the human editor, not the system. Books built on them cost more and take longer.
Japanese and Korean
Our divergence scores on these pairs are materially worse than on European languages. We publish those numbers and we quote longer timelines because of them.
Every edition also comes with a short note for your copyright page explaining how it was made — readers and reviewers trust a book that's upfront. How we check quality →
See your own book in another language.
Send the manuscript. Two translated chapters arrive within 24 hours, free, with no commitment.