A German edition that sounds like you, and stays yours

What you get at the end

A complete German edition in Word and PDF files that you own and can correct. Full copyright transfers to you on final payment. If a reader spots a typo or you want to change a line, you open the file and change it. That is the difference from Kindle Translate, where the German sits inside Amazon and out of your reach.

A strong translation still stalls behind a weak product page, so every edition also comes with the German launch set: title, blurb, keywords, categories and the text for your A+ content. I write the German words, including the lines inside your images, and you or your designer place them in the design.

Series setup comes first

Before the first sentence, I research you, your genre and the German shelf: what readers there already buy, how they expect a thriller or a romance to sound, and which books will sit next to yours.

Then I build a series bible for your books. It holds a style guide, a glossary of every name, place and recurring phrase, and a log of decisions once they are locked. Every name, term and form of address stays identical from Book 1 to Book 10. A character who says du to her partner in Book 1 still says du in Book 4. That is how Book 4 reads like Book 1, even when the books arrive months apart.

Four checks on every chapter

Every chapter passes through the same quality chain. Each step has one job.

1. 1.Transcreation draft. Your chapter is rebuilt in German, following the series bible, not swapped word for word.
2. 2.Content check. The German is read against your English, so nothing is dropped, softened or added.
3. 3.First edit. The German is edited for style, rhythm and your voice.
4. 4.Second edit. An independent pass reads the chapter again from the top and catches what the first edit missed.

Each check starts fresh, with no memory of the step before. It reads the text the way a new reader would, instead of nodding through what came before. On a recent sample chapter, a first draft that read fine still had 40 things wrong, one of them a key fight scene that had been softened. That is what the chain is for.

My final edit, and your notes

After the chain, I make the final edit myself, as a native German, on every page. I am the one named editor, and I answer for the whole book.

You also get a notes-and-questions list showing the places where your input matters: a pun that needs a German twin, a name that sounds odd to German ears, a cultural reference your new readers may not catch. You decide, and your decision goes into the series bible for every book after.

Open about the method

I use AI as a tool inside a human-led process. It helps with the draft and the checks. I steer the work, and every decision about your German is mine.

There is a practical reason to say so plainly. When you upload a translated book, Amazon KDP asks whether that kind of help was used. Because you know exactly how your edition was made, you can answer that question accurately.

If you want it done fully by hand

Some authors want every sentence worked by hand, with no software help at all. That option is there. A fully hand-worked edition runs $0.12 to $0.15 per source word, compared with $0.02 per source word for the standard edition. It takes longer and costs more, and it still comes with the series bible and the launch set. See pricing for worked examples by book length and by series.