Fiction Publishing
Novels are judged in seconds and remembered for years. We publish fiction with the editorial attention that gap deserves.
- The middle sags and you cannot see why
- Every character sounds like you
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Every kind of book needs something different
A picture book is an illustration project. A monograph lives or dies on its index. A poetry collection can be ruined by a template. We publish each category the way it actually needs to be published — with people who work in it.
The mechanics of publishing are the same everywhere: edit, design, produce, distribute. What differs is where the risk sits. Knowing which stage will make or break your book is most of the value a publisher adds.
Nonfiction Publishing
Readers come to nonfiction with a question. Everything about how the book is built should help them answer it.
- Written in learning order, not reading order
- Chapters doing two jobs at once
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Children's Book Publishing
A picture book is an illustration project with words attached. We publish them accordingly.
- Commissioning art without direction
- Text that is really an early reader
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Business Book Publishing
Most business books are not sold to readers. They are handed to people who matter. That changes what the book has to be.
- Organised around your model, not their problem
- Too long for the audience
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Memoir Publishing
A life is not a story until someone shapes it. That shaping is the work, and it deserves an editor who understands what is at stake.
- Everything feels important
- Chronology instead of structure
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Poetry Publishing
In poetry, the line break is the meaning. Typesetting is not decoration here — it is transcription.
- Lines wrapping where they should not
- Stanza breaks lost at page turns
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Academic Publishing
Scholarly books are judged on apparatus as much as argument. We produce them to the standard your field expects.
- A thesis that still reads like a thesis
- Citations that will not survive review
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Illustrated and Color Book Publishing
When the images are the point, colour management, paper and proofing stop being technical details and become the whole project.
- Colour that shifts on paper
- Images supplied too small
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Not sure which fits?
Most books belong to more than one category
An illustrated memoir. A children's book that is really an early reader. A business book with academic apparatus. Categories are how retailers shelve books, not how authors write them.
Send us the manuscript and we will tell you which category it actually sits in — which affects your trim size, your cover conventions, your BISAC codes and which shelf a bookseller puts it on. It is a more consequential question than it looks.
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Thirty minutes, no obligation, and an honest answer about what your book needs. If we think you should keep revising, that is what you will hear.
Your manuscript stays confidential. We claim no rights in your work at any stage.