About us

A book agency built around the author

Marlowe exists because finishing a book properly takes more skills than any one person reliably has — and because getting that help should not feel like gambling on a marketplace.

Why we work this way

Most authors do not need a publisher. They need an editor who will be honest, a designer who understands their genre, someone who can typeset an interior properly, and someone who knows how Amazon KDP actually behaves. Those are four different people, and finding all four separately is exhausting.

Marlowe puts them in one place, with one process. You order a service, we assign the right specialist, and you follow the work on a private page — messages, files, delivery, all in one thread. When it is done, you accept it, and that order closes.

What we deliberately avoided building is a marketplace. You are not posting a job, comparing bids, or hoping a stranger with a five-star badge is as good as their reviews suggest. You are hiring an agency that assigns the work and stands behind it.

What we will not do

  • Take rights to your book. It stays entirely yours.
  • Hold your Amazon account or receive your royalties. Amazon pays you directly.
  • Promise sales, rankings or reviews. Nobody honest can.
  • Show your work publicly without asking you first.
  • Publish anywhere other than Amazon KDP, because that is the platform we actually specialise in.

How we operate

What you can count on

  • A team, not a bottleneck

    Your book is handled by someone who does that one thing professionally — an editor edits, a designer designs. Nobody is stretched across six disciplines and hoping for the best.

  • Confidential by default

    Your manuscript is private property. Files are stored privately, access is limited to the specialist assigned to your project, download links expire, and nothing is shown publicly without your written permission.

  • One stage at a time

    We do not sell packages that bundle four services you might not need. You order the stage your book is actually at, and decide about the next one later.

  • Honest about what we do

    We publish to Amazon KDP and say so. We do not claim affiliations we do not have, invent statistics, or promise sales figures nobody can guarantee.

The people

The specialists behind your book

Marlowe is a team of editors, readers, designers, formatters and publishing specialists — not one person wearing six hats.

Team profiles are being prepared

Our specialists' profiles will appear here shortly. In the meantime, tell us about your project and we will tell you exactly who would work on it.

Not a standard job?

Need something custom?

Every book is different. Tell us what you need — length, genre, deadline, anything unusual — and we will send you a fixed quote with a fixed delivery date. Accept it and pay in one click, or ignore it entirely. No pressure, no obligation.