Thought Leadership · Executive Publishing

Executive positioning, establishing credibility.

For executive positioning to establish credibility. For founders and public figures, a book isn’t a side project — it’s a reputation strategy with a spine. We combine our publishing house and our PR desk into a single team, so the manuscript, the launch, and the media coverage are planned together from page one, not stitched together after the fact.

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How it works

From manuscript to media moment

One team, one narrative, from first draft to front page.

Your goal · what we help you with
Your goal We help you with
Turn your ideas into a credible book Ghostwriting or manuscript development, editing, positioning.
Make the book unmistakably yours Cover design, interior design, author brand alignment.
Get it into the market properly eBook conversion, Amazon placement, print run.
Get it — and you — covered Press release, media interviews, radio and TV features, launch event PR.
Keep the momentum after launch Ongoing media monitoring and reputation management via our PR retainers.
Packages

Executive publishing packages

Built for people whose book has to work as hard as their brand does.

Positioning

$1,750from

For executives testing whether a book is the right move

  • Narrative and positioning consultation
  • Manuscript or ghostwriting scoping
  • Media landscape assessment
Start with a positioning call
Signature

$2,550from

Executives publishing to build authority

  • Full editing (Transform tier)
  • Cover and interior design
  • eBook conversion, Amazon placement
  • 100 printed copies
  • 30 printed books for hand-distribution
  • Launch press release and media placement
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Signature + Retainer

Customquote

Executives who want the book to be the start of a sustained media presence

  • Everything in Signature
  • 3, 6, or 12-month PR retainer following launch
  • Media monitoring across print, broadcast, online and social
  • Ongoing thought-leadership content and press opportunities
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All prices in USD. Retainer terms follow our standard Public Relations packages.

Proof

Where publishing and PR already meet

Thought Leadership is what happens when our editorial team and our PR desk work the same brief from the start.

Our editorial team has directed award-winning books for executives and public figures, including Divine Simbi-Ndhlukula’s Entrepreneurial Success: Insights on Growing Business in a Fluid Economy and Timothy Kuhamba’s Stellar Aspirations: Turning a Space Dream into Reality. In parallel, our PR desk runs media monitoring and reputation work for institutions like the global communications giant Comm With Us and the European Union Delegation to Zimbabwe.

See the full portfolio, or explore our publishing and public relations practices individually.

A book only works as a reputation asset if the right people read it. TisuMazwi · We Are the Words
Executive titles

Books we have directed for executives

Business, policy, research and clinical titles where the author’s standing was as much the point as the book.

Cover of Entrepreneurial Success: Insights on Growing Business in a Fluid Economy by Divine Simbi-Ndhlukula PhD — a portrait of the author in a patterned blazer against a deep green background.

Entrepreneurial Success

Divine Simbi-Ndhlukula, PhD
Cover of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems (CRVS) 2023 Comprehensive Assessment Report, bearing the Zimbabwe Civil Registry Department crest over photographs of the registry building and families.

CRVS Comprehensive Assessment Report

Civil Registry Department · 2023
Cover of Character Matters by Dr Kennedy Mauye — a word cloud of character traits forming a head in profile, red and black on white.

Character Matters

Dr Kennedy Mauye
Cover of Stellar Aspirations: Transforming a Space Dream into Reality by Timothy Kudzanayi Kuhamba — a space shuttle launching over a map of Africa in green, gold and red on a night sky.

Stellar Aspirations

Timothy Kudzanayi Kuhamba
Cover of Bridging Borders, Building Futures: The Integrated Africa We Want by 2063 by Dr Patricia Gonde — a woman in a patterned headwrap in profile against a map of Africa in national flags.

Bridging Borders

Dr Patricia Gonde
Cover of Medical-Surgical Nursing: Care Plans for Zimbabwean Practice by Virgininia Dube-Mawerewere — a nurse attending to a patient at the bedside.

Medical-Surgical Nursing

Virgininia Dube-Mawerewere
Cover of Decoding Meaning: Advanced Qualitative Data Analysis in Healthcare Research by Virgininia Dube-Mawerewere — a woman in profile over data waveforms on deep navy.

Decoding Meaning

Virgininia Dube-Mawerewere
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Let’s Tell Your Story

Ready to make your book part of your reputation strategy?

Book a positioning call and we’ll tell you honestly whether a book — and a media campaign around it — is the right move right now.

Start with a positioning call