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Need Help With Your Book?

Publishing Made Simple with Expert Guidance
Writing a great book is only half the journey to success in self-publishing. These days, authors must also navigate the complexities of cover design, blurb writing, marketing, advertising, and countless other tasks. It can feel overwhelming, especially when you aren’t even sure what it is you don’t know!
That’s when you need to ask for help.
Don’t let the book you’ve worked on for months, or even years, suffer because you aren’t an expert in all things publishing and marketing. Let us help.
Our one-on-one consulting and mentorship services offer the personalized guidance you need.
We’ll sit down with you through a Google Meeting and help you tackle your unique challenges with practical advice, actionable next steps, and proven strategies. Whether you have something simple that can be tackled in just an hour, or need on-going mentorship, we’re here to alleviate your stress and remove the unknowns around publishing that are often the biggest cause of stress.

Who Is This For?

Whether you're a new author seeking direction or an experienced writer aiming to enhance your publishing strategy, our services offer valuable insights and support.

How You Benefit

  • Personalized Guidance: Receive advice tailored to your unique needs and objectives.
  • Flexible Support: Whether you just need to meet with us for an hour or two, or want more of an ongoing mentorship for continuous development, we’ll work at your pace and on your schedule.
  • Expert Insights: Gain knowledge from professionals experienced in writing, publishing, marketing, and advertising.

Who Are We?

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Craig Tuch
Craig Tuch has sold over 190,000 books and accumulated more than 87 million Kindle Unlimited page reads—success he attributes to the support and shared knowledge of the writing community that he has always been deeply involved in. That spirit of collaboration inspired him to create Hidden Gems, a hub where authors can learn, grow, and succeed together. Through weekly blogs, podcasts, virtual sessions, and professional author services, Craig is committed to helping authors spend more time writing and less time worrying about all the other stuff.
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Roland Hulme
Roland Hulme is a fourth-generation writer and publisher, and has sold over 71,000 copies of his novels on Amazon, and reached over 600,000 eager readers. Leveraging a 20+ year career in advertising and marketing, Roland’s speciality is in helping authors connect with their readers by combining tried-and-tested advertising strategies with the latest social media tools and advertising platforms.

How Does It Work?

  • Fill out the order form with as much detail about what it is you’re looking for help on as possible. Feel free to include links to your books or anything else that may be relevant.
  • Select whether you would prefer to have your consultation with Roland or Craig. (Don’t worry, if we think you’d get more value by talking to the person you didn’t select, we’ll let you know!)
  • Select whether or not you want to book a single call or start a set of on-going calls
  • Schedule an available date and time on the calendar for your discussion (for the mentorship sessions, this would be for your first call)
  • Calls will be recorded (unless you request otherwise) and you will have access to the recording so you can reference it later (saves having to take notes!)
  • For single calls, you will receive a follow up email check-in following the call to answer any questions or concerns. For ongoing calls, you will have access to us between calls for quick questions or concerns.

How Much Does It Cost?

  • Single call consults are $200 per hour.
  • On-going mentorship calls must be booked for a minimum of 3 hours and will be billed at $150 per hour up to the first 6 hours of calls. After the 6th call, if you still require more, subsequent calls will drop to $125 per hour.

Should I Choose Craig or Roland?

Both Craig and Roland can help you with most of the general writing and publishing questions you may have, however they both have their specialities and strengths. For advertising specific questions, especially when it comes to the ins and outs of Facebook advertising or Direct Sales, Roland is a better choice. For questions about using Artificial Intelligence as a tool to help your self-publishing efforts, Craig is the one to select.

What Types Of Things Can You Help With?

Below is a non-exhaustive list of some of the things we can help with, but if you aren’t sure, feel free to ask us first. If we don’t think we can help, we’ll definitely let you know ahead of time. And even if that is the case, we’ll probably know someone we can refer you to!

  • Publication plans, launch or marketing strategies
  • Book content issues
  • Meta data evaluation (cover, blurb, keywords, etc)
  • Social media and reader outreach, growing mailing list, networking with authors, etc
  • Author website advice
  • Advice on other services, ensuring you don’t get ripped off
  • Book targeting
  • Career and goal planning (keeping it realistic and meeting them)
  • Pros and cons of going wide
  • AI tools and how/if they can help you
  • Advertising and marketing (setting them up, learning to run them, evaluating performance, etc)
  • Direct Sales
  • Sourcing keywords for Advertising on Amazon
  • Using Facebook to grow subscriber list
  • Creating complex ad strategies
  • Setting up and using attribution tags, Facebook pixels, etc

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