Black Card Books is a vanity press. They are a damned expensive vanity press as well. The total cost of their “instant author” program is around thirty thousand Canadian. They offer financing options, which brings it all the way up to thirty-five thousand. Most of what they offer for that money is “marketing” and consulting. Well, the marketing program is interesting. It isn’t really marketing per se, so much as pushing you to become a public speaker. They recommend you start giving talks and holding seminars prior to actually writing your book and to pre-sell at those talks and seminars. They do say they will design your cover and also a bunch of promo material, and that they will design banners and the like. So, that’s something. It’s a branding package, just a pricey one. I have worked for branding agencies. Yes, they might give you a twenty thousand dollar package, but I promise you they are doing a much better and more complete job than Black Card Books for that money.