What sort of publishers are we?
We are something between a subsidy publisher and a traditional pubisher. We aim to provide a service to authors that is as close to traditional publishing as we can make it. We publish a limited number of books per month. Your book doesnt have to be commercial, we are more concerned with quality.
The relationship we have with our authors is a continuing one and is like that between an author and a traditional publisher.
Our background is in traditional publishing and our managing director was once the Modern Drama Consultant at the company that grew under his single consultancy to be the second biggest drama publisher in the country and is now part of the Bloomsbury Group of publishing companies.
He is also a life-long professional author, published among others by Penguin, Methuen and Bloomsbury. His work had been translated and admired by Nobel Prize winners.
Being published by the Authors Library Press means that you are in contact with the literary end of the publishing world, which can be useful and beneficial to your book and to your development as a writer, whether you write novels, biography, or histories, whether you are a professional or an amateur.
We have to charge the author £950 to publish. Our low charge puts us lower than any comparable subsidy publisher whilst enabling us to publish the sort of work that doesnt generate large commercial sales. Our service is reliable and honest- we have a serious reputation to protect.
Please submit your book to:
authorslibrarypress@yahoo.com
and mark the email SUBMISSION
It doesn't have to be perfect and you don't have to be a professional author (earning your living from writing) but you do have to write to a high standard.
In the case of history, local or otherwise, we only require that the book be well written and well researched. The same applies to biography. The subject of your biography doesn't have to be a notable person.
We have no preconceptions as to genre or style, or even originality; we are only concerned with quality. We will consider poetry.
What happens if we decide to publish your book?
We have to charge the author £950 to publish. Since the decline of independent bookshops, and because the remaining large chains are limited to commercial material, it is no longer possible for small publishers to survive on sales unless they adopt the commercial policies of the large publishers which we don't wish to do.
In recompense we take no royalties at all- the author gets 100% of the proceeds from the sale of their book. Also they retain all the rights and are free to republish as and when they choose. In that way we provide a service to authors, not an impediment.
We distribute your book in the same way as a traditional publisher does.
Once you are an Authors Library Press author we are likely to want to publish your future work, as we know that authors require continuity of support from their publisher in the long term, rather than merely one book at a time.
We also provide a developmental editing service by experienced authors. We can also give developmental editing for screenwriting.
Please submit your book to :authorslibrarypress@yahoo.com and mark the email SUBMISSION