Tearing Through Trials
A memoir concept exploring the triumphs and setbacks of a two-sport college athlete, from championships and career-changing injuries to chronic illness, a professional career, and the search for meaning.
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Explore examples of completed nonfiction books and illustrated interiors. Your project can be tailored to your subject, audience, and publishing goals.
Our published portfolio
From an idea to a book you can hold.
These are examples of actual printed books, spanning psychology, personal growth, faith, health, and data analytics. See the variety of cover designs and series concepts a finished collection can bring to life.
Explore the Interiors →The grand illustrated experience
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The Grand Illustrated Collection adds full-color visuals to complement the writing. These photographed sample spreads show how artwork and text can work together in a finished printed book.
Portfolio examples illustrate style and presentation; each commissioned book is scoped individually.
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Memoirs and personal stories
Every Life Has a Story Worth Telling
From athletic achievements and personal adversity to faith, recovery, and transformation, a biography can become a powerful book. Here are two concept presentations based on Danny Richard's own experiences.
Playing for Coach Martin
An illustrated, faith-centered memoir concept connecting college football, mentorship, psychosis, perseverance, and hope. The story demonstrates how deeply personal experiences can inspire a distinctive book.
These images are promotional book mockups, not final print-ready covers. Final publishing files require proofreading, rights review, and KDP-compliant cover preparation.
Meet the founder
About Danny Richard
Danny Richard was a two-sport collegiate athlete whose years in football and baseball were marked by extraordinary achievement and profound adversity. A national champion and two-time All-American in football, he also threw a perfect game in baseball and won a regional championship game that helped send his team to the College World Series. Throughout college, he battled severe ulcerative colitis while pursuing his education.
With NFL aspirations through his junior year, Danny believed professional football might be his future. But an ACL tear during the 2009 national championship game, followed by two more ACL injuries over the next two years, brought that dream to an end. The experience became one chapter in a larger story about resilience, changing direction, and finding purpose beyond athletics.
After college, Danny built a career in business intelligence engineering and data science. Today, his interests include nonfiction reading, regular exercise, boxer dogs, and the peace of country living. Through his writing and publishing work, he hopes to help as many people as possible better understand mental illness and find paths toward healing, support, and meaningful lives.
Own your publishing future
Your Book Can Become a Long-Term Income Opportunity
If you have a strong personal network, an established audience, or a compelling story to share, publishing your own book can create an opportunity to earn money from sales. When you control your publishing account and applicable rights, you can choose an eligible retail price above printing and platform costs and receive the resulting royalties.
Our recommended approach: publish through your own Amazon KDP account so you control your listing, pricing choices, and royalty payments. Richard Publishing Services charges a one-time project fee and does not take a percentage of future book royalties. A book can remain available for sale over time, potentially creating recurring income as long as readers continue buying it.
Book sales and profit are not guaranteed. Actual royalties depend on Amazon's pricing requirements, printing costs, fees, marketplace, and sales. Copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party or AI-assisted material depend on the project agreement and applicable law.
Start Your Book →Your vision, professionally developed
Start With a Reading List—or a Big Idea
A themed book-summary collection is a powerful way to bring important ideas together. Or send us a detailed outline, extended summary, or clear description of the book you envision, and we can help develop it into a complete original nonfiction manuscript.
Book-summary collection
Many Great Books. One Cohesive Collection.
Choose a topic or select the books you want explored. We organize original summaries, commentary, and synthesis into a polished, readable collection.
Original book development
Your Concept Becomes a Manuscript.
Provide a detailed concept, long summary, outline, or chapter notes. We help shape the structure, develop chapters, and prepare an original manuscript. Custom projects receive an individual quote.
You Direct the Creative Details—or Leave Them to Us
Choose your book title, subtitle, cover concept, dedication, preface, introduction, table of contents, author biography, back-cover description, and other front and back matter. If you prefer, we can propose and develop these elements for your review and approval.
Our recommended publishing path: receive your Word and PDF files and publish through your own Amazon KDP account. We include a complimentary one-hour screen-sharing walkthrough to guide you. If you prefer publishing assistance, we offer it without an additional KDP service fee.
Every project is scoped individually. Book preparation commonly requires 20–80 hours of manual labor, which is why our pricing reflects the work involved.
Simple, flat-fee pricing
Choose Your Edition
Each book is a substantial, hands-on publishing project. Our process typically involves 20–80 hours of manual labor, including manuscript development, organization, formatting, quality checks, and preparation of your finished Word and PDF files. That dedicated work is reflected in our flat-fee pricing—without ongoing royalties owed to us.
Why Does Professional Book Creation Cost This Much?
Producing a polished book takes approximately 20 to 80 hours of hands-on manual work, depending on the length, complexity, number of books summarized, and illustration requirements. You are paying for careful development, editing and organization, interior formatting, review, and delivery of usable Word and PDF files—not simply a document generated in seconds.
Classic Collection
Beautifully written. Professionally organized.
Original summaries and synthesis, chapter organization, a clickable table of contents, and clean interior formatting.
$2,000–$3,000
Depending on collection size
Grand Illustrated Collection
Make every chapter a visual experience.
Everything in Classic, plus custom color illustrations related to the text and a premium visual layout. Illustration quantity is agreed in advance.
$7,000–$10,000
Depending on collection size
| Books summarized | Classic | Grand Illustrated |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | $2,000 | $7,000 |
| 50 | $2,300 | $8,000 |
| 75 | $2,600 | $9,000 |
| 100 | $3,000 | $10,000 |
Self-publishing walkthrough: free one-hour video call. Done-for-you Amazon KDP publishing assistance: always free of additional service charges from Richard Publishing Services. No guaranteed sales, copyright registration, or Amazon approval.
Your book, your choice
Your Book. Your Files. Your Publishing Rights.
Receive editable Word and finished PDF files. We recommend publishing through your own Amazon KDP account so you control your listings, pricing, and any royalties payable to you. We never charge an additional fee for KDP publishing assistance.
Keep Control — Publish Through Your Own KDP Account
Keep your publishing account under your control. In a complimentary one-hour video call, we share screens and guide you step by step through uploading your manuscript, reviewing your cover, and setting up your Amazon KDP listing.
60-minute personal publishing walkthrough · $0 additional fee
We Can Publish It for You
Prefer hands-on help? We provide KDP publishing assistance free of charge, with no separate KDP service fee. We aim for the lowest list price permitted under Amazon KDP pricing and printing-cost rules, with your approval. We recommend that the listing and royalty payments remain in your own KDP account.
No ongoing royalty share or sales commission paid to Richard Publishing Services. Amazon may retain printing costs and its platform share, and its minimum price may vary by format and marketplace.
Publishing eligibility, intellectual-property rights, AI disclosures, and final pricing remain subject to Amazon KDP policies. Your project agreement will specify account ownership and publishing responsibilities.
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