Make it

At Savvy Beautiful Books, we co-create custom books with select clients. We specialize in cookbooks and culinary narratives, but our professional experience ranges from business biographies to lifestyle and art books. (We happily do those too.) Our careers have spanned book and magazine publishing and content strategy to award-winning art direction, design, writing, and editing. If you are a writer, chef, cook, business owner, or publisher looking for an expert editorial and design team to shepherd your idea into print, talk to us.

Our Services

Concept Development

  • We interact with publishers, printers, booksellers, chefs, writers, and tastemakers daily. A solid market evaluation gives your book a competitive advantage.

  • Getting a publisher’s attention can be frustrating. Maybe you want to self publish, or maybe you want to take a printer-ready book to publishers. We can help you sort it out.

  • A book is only as useful as its structure. We’ll help you organize your content to make it easier for you to write and for cooks to use.

  • Have our team weigh in with an assessment of your book idea. This can include a read of your manuscript and broad editorial advice on how to adjust it and get it finished.

  • You have a solid book idea and some content completed. What’s next? We can help you reach out to publishers with a solid proposal, and research and write grant applications that could help defray your costs.

Content Development

  • Sure, you know what your stained recipe cards mean.
    We polish and test your treasured recipes so anyone can make them flawlessly, the first time.

  • You have big ideas and a shoebox full of notes. We can help you bring out your own authentic voice, in your own words.

  • Great art direction is never an afterthought. We build it into the process, turning your recipes into cravings.

  • We eat first with our eyes. Your tastiest dishes deserve the star treatment. Our creative director and her team will style dishes to look their most scrumptious.

  • Everyone judges a cookbook by its cover. We’ll help you make yours stand out, either on a bookshelf or online platforms.

  • We can make your average photos look better. Or we can source a pro photographer who’ll blow your oven doors off.

  • Once your book is almost done, we edit it for consistency and style, using a house style guide, tailored to your book. Then we send it for independent proofreading.

  • A complete, accurate, and thoughtful index means your cookbook is a go-to resource cooks return to over and over.

Print and launch strategies

  • We create files in formats tailored for printers, publishers,
    or online book sellers.

  • We prepare a strategic plan to help you sell through your first print run in this post-launch landscape.