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STORY & BOOK DEVELOPMENT

ADDUCENT Established 2000 Writing Ghostwriting Editing Publishing

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About Us

Adducent, founded July 5, 2000, is a story and book development firm based in Jacksonville, Florida. Founder and Creative Director Dennis Lowery is a U.S. Navy veteran who spent the 1990s in aerospace manufacturing and more than eight years in business consulting alongside M&A attorneys and investment bankers before the company’s focus became writing and publishing in 2009.

Adducent has published 114 titles under its imprints — FORTIS (nonfiction and memoir), BOOKNOLOGY (business and educational nonfiction), ESCRIRE (fiction), and STANDFAST, established in 2026 for titles from the special-operations and intelligence communities. Every one was developed, edited, and produced under Dennis Lowery’s direct editorial direction. Fourteen arrived as standard nonfiction and were rebuilt as creative nonfiction.

See some of our clients and authors here.

Two are on United States military professional reading lists: Fortune Favors Boldness, by Vice Admiral Barry M. Costello, on the Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading List; and What Now, Lieutenant?, General Richard ‘Butch’ Neal’s memoir, on the Commandant of the Marine Corps Professional Reading List.

Distribution is global print-on-demand through Ingram, a network that by Ingram’s account reaches 50% of the world’s population. Clients own all rights to their work. Dennis, who also ghostwrites for clients and other publishers, is a member of the Authors Guild, the United States’ oldest and largest professional organization for writers.


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What we’ve done and what we do for clients.

Writing

Ghostwriting

Editing and Proofreading

Story & Book Development

Story Art | Storyboards | Story Pitch Decks

Publishing (Commercial | Private | White Label)

Adducent’s Clients and Readers have written thousands of words of feedback about our writing, ghostwriting, editing, and publishing services.

WRITING & GHOSTWRITING

EDITING

Taking what’s been written… and making it better. Editing and Rewriting–including ghost(re)writing–Services. We can also convert standard nonfiction into compelling creative nonfiction or a fictionalized account of the story.

PUBLISHING SERVICES

Book Design, Production, and International Distribution Capabilities.

STORY & BOOK ART

Not only do we help develop, plan, write, ghostwrite, and publish stories and books… we also develop and create story art.


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Here are some of our story and book covers (published, to be published, or for future publication), alt-cover designs, and concepts for stories in development: