HELPING YOU SELF-PUBLISH

Have you produced a manuscript you’d love to see published? Here’s how we can help you.

We are KPMDesign — a small, customer-focused design and publishing company located in Paraparaumu Beach on New Zealand’s Kapiti Coast.

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With a Masters degree in English literature and a background in both teaching and editing, Chris Benge has helped many authors and self-publishers prepare their work for publication. He has an eagle eye for typos and other proofing errors, and polishes text to make it as accessible and appealing as possible for each writer’s intended audience.

Chris and KPMDesign offer a wide range of publishing-related services:

proofreading
text editing
blurb writing
assistance registering your book for an ISBN code
indexing
book and cover design
photo enhancement and repair
print management
e-book development and registration for sale on Amazon’s website
create online ‘Look Inside’ feature for digital browsing
promotional resources (print and digital fliers, posters – even your own website)

Publishing a book is a great adventure and labour, almost like giving birth. Chris loves helping writers form a book or e-book out of what they have lived with and dreamed about for so long. Amongst the books he has worked on over the years are:

Ambiguity & Innocence: The New Zealand Division and the Occupation of Trieste, May 1945 by Tony Simpson

Before Hobson by Tony Simpson

Along for the Ride: A Political Memoir by Tony Simpson

PLUS: A Model for Driving Organisational Performance by John Ellen

Am I My Keeper’s Brother: Human Origins from a Christian and Scientific Perspective by Philip Pattemore

Cockney Kid: The Making of an Unconventional Psychologist by Tony Taylor

One Soldier’s War by Stanley Hughes

Psalms Down-Under by Joy Cowley and Terry Coles

Porters in My Past by John Ewan

Passing through Shadows by Ken Gartner

The Engagement and Other Poems by Fay Clayton

The Chocolate Seller on Broadway by Chris Grantham