Publishing partnership

A real house behind your book

Hybrid publishing has a reputation, and a lot of it is deserved. Here is exactly what we do, what it costs, what you keep, and what we will not do at any price.

The short version

You pay for production.The copyright stays yours.

You fund the production. We do the publishing — editorial, design, print, distribution, and the long tail after launch. We register the copyright in your name, and every edition we print carries your copyright notice. You grant us the exclusive right to publish and to place the work in other media, and we share what it earns: 50% of net receipts to you, rising to 75% and then 90% as the book matures.^*

The difference between a good partnership and a bad one is whether the house has anything at stake. We publish our own list through the same imprints, the same editors, the same printers and the same distribution. Every process we put an author through is one we run on ourselves first.

What we do

The work of a publisher

Editorial

Developmental edit
Line and copy edit
Proofread to a style sheet
Front and back matter

Design & production

Cover design and art direction
Interior typesetting
Press-ready files, all formats
eBook and audiobook production

Publishing

Your book under one of our imprints
ISBNs, copyright and metadata
Print and print-on-demand
Retail, wholesale and library channels^*

Marketing and publicity

Launch plan, retail and metadata setup, review-copy outreach, and paid advertising where it earns its place. Scope is set in your quote, and we tell you where it ends.^*

The process

How a book gets made here

Enquiry and read

You send the manuscript or the proposal. We read it. If it is not a fit for one of our three houses we say so, and we tell you why.

Scope and quote

We build the publishing plan for your specific book — formats, print quantity, channels, schedule — and quote it. Scope, cost and deliverables are agreed in writing before any work begins. No work starts on a handshake.

Editorial

Developmental edit first, then line, copy and proof. You see every pass. Nothing goes to design until the text is finished.

Design and production

Cover, interior, and press files for every format you have contracted. You approve the cover before it is built out.

Publication

ISBNs, metadata, retail and wholesale setup, print run or print-on-demand, and an on-sale date we hold you to and hold ourselves to.

After launch

Sales reporting, reprints, and the long tail. A book is a fifteen-year asset. We treat the first ninety days as the beginning of the work, not the end of it.

The floor

What we hold ourselves to

These are the commitments we make to every author on our list, and we put them in the agreement.

The copyright stays yours. We register it in your name and print your copyright notice in every edition.
We scope before we quote. Every number you get from us comes after someone here has read your book.
We promise what we control. Editorial, production, print, distribution and reporting are ours to deliver, and they go in writing. Lists, awards and film interest are outcomes we pursue for you.
We take on what we can publish properly. Capacity is real, and our word is worth more to us than the deal.

^* Availability depends on the publishing package. Not every title runs through every channel.

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Tell us about the book

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