Publishing 

Londubh Books offers best-in-class paid-for publishing services. We will manage all aspects of your project from manuscript/concept to finished books.

Jo O’Donoghue has created and project-managed numerous books for individuals and organisations, including Enda MacMahon’s A Most Respectable Meeting of Merchants for Dublin Chamber of Commerce, We Were Happy There (St Louis High School, Rathmines), A Special Place (Scoil Mhuire Cork) and a fiftieth anniversary history of Guaranteed Irish 2024). Jo herself researched and wrote New Horizons, a history of the Sisters of St Louis, based on oral testimony and archival research, and The Way We Were, The St Louis Sisters in England 1912-2024. 

Jo’s particular areas of interest are literature and the arts, history and local history, memoir and biography, but she is willing to tackle any topic in the hope of learning something new.

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Manuscript to finished books

Editing/rewriting as needed, consultation with author, proofing, legal and copyright oversight if required, layout, picture research and picture layout if required, cover design, sourcing of printers, liaising with printers, final PDFs to printers, delivery of finished books/creation of ebooks.

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Concept to finished books

Research and writing by Jo O’Donoghue or a Londubh associate, editing/rewriting as needed, consultation with author, proofing, legal and copyright oversight if required, layout, picture research and picture layout if required, cover design, sourcing of printers, liaising with printers, final PDFs to printers, delivery of finished books/creation of ebooks.

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Costings

Costings include quarterly or monthly invoicing as agreed with client; quarterly review meetings as agreed with client. Costs agreed at the outset of the project and subject to change only in the case of unforeseen circumstances or delays or rise in printing costs for long-term projects.

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Portfolio

Please see a Portfolio of titles from Londubh Publishing Services.