What sort of publishers are we?
We aim to provide a service to experienced or established authors that is as close to traditional publishing as we can make it. We publish around one or two books per month, no more. If you feel your book might be of the sort of standard that would have been accepted by a traditional publisher in the past, before they became entirely commercial, then you are welcome to submit it to us.
To be more precise; it doesn't have to be perfect but it does has to have a literary standard and quality. You don't have to be a professional author (earning your living from writing) but you do have to write to a standard that might be called professional.
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.
What happens if we decide to publish your book?
We have to charge the author £1500 to publish. This is because we publish the sort of work that doesnt generate large sales. It is also because, 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@gmail.com