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What Makes Us Different
At Harvard Ink, we’re not just wordsmiths—we’re story partners.
We thrive on working with authors with great ideas and book dreams and who need guidance, personal connection, and a publishing process that doesn’t feel overwhelming or out of reach.
With our roots in psychology, coaching, business and entrepreneurship—not just writing — we like to do things differently. We listen deeply, coach gently, and co-create with care. Whether we’re ghostwriting your book, editing your manuscript, or helping you self-publish for the first time, our mission is simple: to honour your voice and help you be heard.
Harvard Ink was founded by Mel Harvard in 2019 after decades in publishing, leadership development, and content strategy. In 2022, business expert Alex Jaggers joined forces with her to build a focussed team of writers, editors, and author coaches.
Today, we support a growing community of authors around the world—one story at a time, with heart, strategy, and the kind of human attention that’s become rare in an AI world.
What We Do
Writing and producing new books with a full suite of support services to bring your book to the world.
Help independant authors reach their publishing goals.
Getting a book written is not enough. Self published authors realise that writing “the end” is a huge achievement. But really, it’s also only a third of the way to the finishing line.
Not knowing what to do with a finished first draft is a common problem for even a brilliant story. So they sit, gathering dust, waiting for their readers another day.
Self-published writers aren’t experts in book design, nor even editing (yes, really! Really really!), or have the kind of marketing skills to get your book noticed, and into the readers’ hands.
Word-craft and manuscript publishing services to bring your book dreams to life.
Harvard Ink.
The Harvard Ink Story
Harvard Ink began as a tiny seed in the mind of a little girl who loved words and writing and used to lose herself in stories of dragons, mermaids, and dashing heroes and heroines.
Once she grew a little, by around 1995, Mel Harvard went on to be a sub-editor and features writer for magazine publishers Republican Press (Your Family, Living & Loving). Moving out into the world of entrepreneurship and business in 1999, she kept her writing passions going by contributing to magazines such as HR Future, Creamer Media, local news and radio media, and more with ventures such as ghostwriting and helping indie authors to get their work online.
In 2019, she went on to create Harvard Ink and was joined in 2022 by business expert Alex Jaggers. Together, they pooled their skills to start growing a small but dedicated and professional writing and manuscript support team.
Since then, this team has grown into a group of well-rounded content development experts. As there is always room for improvement, Harvard Ink’s key focus points for internal learning and development include editing, proofreading, ghost-writing, self-publishing support for new authors, and copywriting for the business world.
Harvard Ink is an organisation of marketing expertise, creative artists and designers, seasoned publishing professionals, editors, proof-readers, researchers, copywriters, and ghost-writers.
The Harvard Ink Team
Our Founders and Owners
Melanie Harvard
Professional Writer, Editor, and Business Entrepreneur
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexjaggers/I started out many years ago as a magazine journalist and have been freelancing for over 30 years in SEO, blogs, articles, advertorials, and as an editor. I have successfully ghost-written in excess of 100 books ranging from 20 000 up to 100 000 words. I am an experienced writer on a range of topics, from self-help and psychology, natural or alternative health, and spiritualism through to parenting, relationships, workplace, and management challenges.
I have a degree majoring in Drama, Industrial Psych, and Psychology, as well as a Diploma in Professional Life Coaching, and am a registered assessor, moderator, and commissioner of oaths. I have been a features writer, life coach/counsellor, entrepreneur, successful businesswoman, training materials designer, assessor, training facilitator, and COO of a leadership and management training company over my working career.
I now live near a shimmering blue sea, surrounded by trees and mountains, and spend my days quietly writing and editing for a living. I share my space with a collie, three cats, my last teenager (all the others have been successfully launched into the world), and rooms overflowing with books. Bookshelf donations are always welcome!
Alex Jaggers
Marketing and Music, Entrepreneur
With experience in consulting, people management and business services, , I’ve turned my hand to marketing, SEO, website management and creating online space for our businesses. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Gryphon Harvard
Professional Writer, Editor, and Cover Designer
With a diploma in Fine Art, my earliest passion lies in writing. Six years ago, I began expressing this passion more outwardly by doing volunteer work for modding development teams. There, I married my conceptual and editorial skills to their technical prowess, strengthening the lore behind the gameplay experiences they wished to create.
Later, during my art studies, I paid for my bread and butter through ghostwriting, and gained the privilege of teaching and guiding other freelance writers not long after achieving my qualification.
Now, after gaining nearly two years of experience in publishing and writer management and copywriting assessment, I have joined Harvard Ink to offer my expertise to almost every stage of our company’s publishing process — from the cover to the body, to the blurb.
In my free time, I’m usually worldbuilding or fleshing out key villains for my D&D Dungeon Master to use. Otherwise, I enjoy unpacking most media with a well-thought-out narrative element, and I’m often working on ways to improve in key writing skills such as dialogue, subtext, and trope-handling.
