Publishing project management goes a step further than the single-stage outsourcing to which publishers have until recently been accustomed. Essentially involving giving responsibility for an entire project – sometimes from commissioning all the way to print or other product delivery – over to a management supplier, it is at once a more comprehensive and a more flexible approach to production.
In line with the best publishing project management provision on offer, Pencil-Sharp
- is committed to working in a more ‘distributed’ way, so that partner suppliers each work to their strengths;
- as a corollary of this, is sensibly global – offering ‘best of both worlds’ creative partnerships between UK-based editorial and project management, Indian production, and Far-Eastern print;
- is characterised by an integrated approach to management that goes beyond the departmental model – which means thinking about the end of the process, and every point in between, from the outset.
In practice our one-stop publishing project management means a single point of contact for the client, with each project manager assembling and coordinating a team of our freelancers on the client’s behalf. Whilst we do take on smaller, single-stage projects, the benefits of our service grow incrementally with the degree of responsibility we are given for a publishing project – so there are real ‘economies of scale’ to what we do.
As a corporate associate of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP), Pencil-Sharp endorses the Society’s Code, the purpose of which is to establish and maintain standards of best practice for the publishing industry.
Pencil-Sharp offers a ‘pressure-valve’ service, when pressures mount for in-house editors, particularly at the point of project placement, as well as more comprehensive solutions to the challenges of publishing management.
Whether you are looking to ease the pressures of placing discrete stages of the editorial and production processes with multiple different providers, or a more comprehensive publishing project management service, Pencil-Sharp would welcome your enquiry.