We were lucky to catch up with Eyvaine Walker recently and have shared our conversation below.

Eyvaine, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. How did you come up with the idea for your business?

After writing a book to be published, I contacted various traditional publishing companies for my book to be published and my book was rejected and/or I was quoted an enormous amount of money to publish my book and the control they would have over my work was not pleasing to me.  I then felt discouraged, and that’s when the idea came to me to start a self-publishing company to publish my own books and to offer help to other inspiring authors to fulfills their dreams on becoming writers and authors.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Eyvaine Walker is a mother, wife, entrepreneur, mentor, and coach to many. She is a cancer survivor and contributor to the Cancer Society for many years.  Eyvaine achieved a degree in Occupational Business Management. Her many years of dedication to the US Postal Service allowed her to retire. She dedicates her time in volunteering in community affairs and is an inspiring author of several books and Founder/CEO of Twins Publishing Services.  Twins Publishing Services provides publishing services, included but not limited to editing, reviewing, publishing, and printing manuscripts for new authors and writers.  She is on a mission is to cultivate a community by providing literacy resources through books. Eyvaine Walker, a distinguished and respectable author, published “Keeping a Family Legacy Alive” that have become a bestseller. Eyvaine was presented with a 2011 Historian Award for her dedication in genealogy research at a family reunion. She was invited to the White House in Washington, DC and former President Obama signed one of her published books.  She is a volunteer member with the USO (United Service Organizations) for military veterans and their families amongst other organizations. As an active member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, she is involved in many duties devoting her time to support the operation of the Coast Guard.

Can you tell us about what’s worked well for you in terms of growing your clientele?

Twins Publishing Services have a program for prisoners that Prints on Demand (POD) by having a manuscript in a properly formatted ready to print digital file that saves the client zero expenses. This program allows the publishing company to print manuscript with no charge to the client and Twins Publishing retrieves a higher percentage on every purchase. Our Print Production Program (PPP) allows prisoners zero out of pocket expenses. Another program allows a family member or friend to be the administrator on a manuscript and deal directly with Twins Publishing for printing production services. This service allows said person to control marketing, reorders etc. This prisoner program has been most effective for growing clientele.

How’d you meet your business partner?

The CCO of Twins Publishing Services is my twin sister, Eyvette Walker.  Eyvette is the business legal liaison.  She prepares and negotiations contracts, along with assisting in the editing, proofreading and production process of the business.  Together we run a successful self-publish publishing company.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.twinspublishing.com

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