Every book. The same hands.
Not client work. Our own list, written, edited, designed, typeset, recorded and published here, in print, ebook and audio, across ten shelves.
That is what we are offering you. Not a service we bought in and resold, but the way we make our own books, on our own money, where a mistake costs us and nobody else.
We are now opening our doors to independent authors, and we are starting from nobody. No list, no queue, no back catalogue of other people’s books. If you work with us you will be among the first, and you should weigh that both ways.
What this is not
We are not a vanity press. We will not work with everyone who pays. We intend to say no more often than yes, and we may well say no to you. That is not arrogance, it is the entire point. A reader who finds a book on our shelves has to know it means something, and the only way that stays true is if most manuscripts are declined.
If you want a company that will print anything for a fee, there are many. We are not one of them.
The usual way a house proves it is not a vanity press is to take a cut of your royalties, so that it only earns if you do. We considered that and decided against it, for a reason we will state plainly.
A royalty share ties our income to your sales, and sales are the one thing neither of us controls. It would make us cautious in exactly the wrong way, pushing us toward books that look safe rather than books that are good. And it would mean that years after the work was finished, we were still taking money from your book.
How the model works
A fixed price for the work, and none of your royalties. Editing, cover, typesetting, every format, metadata, files ready to upload. You pay for the production, once. What the book earns is yours, all of it, for as long as it earns.
Work out your own numbers first
Our printing cost and royalty calculator gives you the printing cost, the royalty per copy and the minimum list price for any page count and price, on eight marketplaces. Free, no email address, no sign-up.
Before you pay us anything, we typeset a chapter
Not a template with your title dropped into it. Your actual chapter, set in each of our page designs with the same care as everything else we publish, and returned as print PDFs and ebook files. You compare them on your own pages and choose the one your book will be set in. If you have ideas of your own for how it should look, tell us. Small adjustments are part of both packages, and a design built entirely around your ideas is available as an extra.
It costs nothing and it obliges you to nothing. If you take it elsewhere, that is fine, and it will happen.
We do this because the question you are actually asking is whether we can do the work, and a price list does not answer that. A set chapter does. It is also the fastest way for both of us to find out whether the book and the house fit each other, which a sample answers better than a conversation.
We do not offer sample pages to everyone. They follow an enquiry that interests us, which is the same filter as everything else here.
What it costs
| Sample pages | free | A chapter of your book typeset in each of our page designs, returned as print PDFs and ebook files. Offered when an enquiry interests us. No obligation on either side. |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment | €150 | A written editorial judgement. Yours to keep, whatever we decide. Comes off the package in full if we go ahead within six months. |
| Production | €1,800 | Editing, correction, cover, interiors for every format, metadata, and a setup sheet for the retailer, with a session on screen if you want one. You publish on your own account. |
| Production with launch | €2,200 | All of the above for a book in English, plus a page in this catalogue on its own shelf that links to your listing, a launch campaign on our channels, and a category review at thirty and ninety days. You still publish on your own account. |
| Custom page design | €200 | An interior built around your own ideas instead of one of ours, for print and ebook. Choosing one of our designs, with small adjustments, is included in both packages. |
Both packages include the assessment. Prices are for manuscripts up to roughly 90,000 words. You publish on your own account in both, and every royalty goes from the retailer straight to you. We take no share, ever. The link from our catalogue is an affiliate link, so the retailer pays us a small commission on sales through it, and that commission does not come out of your royalties.
So how do you know we will say no?
Because saying no is built into the way you reach us, and because we publish the numbers whether or not they suit us.
Three stages, and the first two are free. You send a short enquiry and it costs you nothing. If it interests us we typeset a chapter of your book and send it back, and that costs you nothing either. Only after that do we offer a paid assessment. We expect most projects to end before anyone has paid us anything.
The assessment is a real piece of work and it is yours either way. A written editorial judgement on concept, market position, structure and language. If we then decline, you keep it and the money you spent bought you something. If we go ahead within six months, the fee comes off the production package in full.
And we publish both rates. How many enquiries became assessments, and how many assessments became books. Every six months, on a page of this site, including the periods we would rather not show. A vanity press cannot publish those numbers, because the honest version of them is a hundred per cent.
What you get
- Editorial partnership. A straight judgement on your manuscript, and editorial notes in specific places, never a rewritten draft.
- Professional production. Cover, interior, and metadata to the same standard as everything else we publish.
- Every format. Ebook, paperback and hardcover.
- Actual marketing, with the launch. A post on our channels, a page on our shelves, and a feature to the reader list we are building, each labelled as advertising. The part almost every independent author skips, and the reason almost every independent book fails.
- A place on the shelf, with the launch. Your book gets its own page in the catalogue on this site, on the shelf it belongs to, linking to your listing. It stays your book, on your account and under your name.
What the production actually is
Most of what follows is invisible in a finished book, which is why almost nobody describes it. We will, because it is the part you are buying.
Every title goes through a fixed sequence with a checked handover at each step. Before an editor reads the manuscript, it is checked for house style, repetition, sentence defects and the integrity of its notes. Editorial notes come back as a list of specific problems in specific places, not as a rewritten draft. The interior is built and then verified against the file itself rather than against how the page looks, because the two defects that got past us on the first title were invisible on a rendered page and obvious in the underlying document.
We keep a record of every fault we have found and what we changed so it could not happen again. It runs to several thousand words and it is the reason the process is worth buying rather than the books.
What we are looking for
Nonfiction. A clear argument about something real, from someone who knows the subject or has genuinely lived it. Something a reader would be better for having read.
We publish across ten shelves, from attention and burnout to hidden systems, from artificial intelligence to money and work. If your book would sit naturally beside those already on the shelves, we want to hear from you.
We care less about credentials than about whether you have something true to say and the seriousness to say it well.
How to submit
Tell us three things. What your book argues and who it is for. Why you are the person to write it. And how far along it is. Send no files with the enquiry. If we want to see the manuscript, we will ask for it.
You do not need a finished book. A serious proposal is enough to begin a conversation.
We will read everything and reply to everything. If it is a no, we will tell you why.
Or write to if you would rather not use a form. Either way, expect a reply within three weeks.
Already published, in one language
If your book exists and sells, you do not need any of the above. You need a second market. That is a different service and it has its own page. See Localisation, or read the full record of one edition we took across.
A note on what we are building
Plainly, so there is no confusion later. The InkAtlas catalogue is house-developed. We choose the subjects, write the briefs, draft with the help of AI writing tools, and edit and produce every title to a fixed standard. Those books appear under house names, and there is no roster of staff writers behind them. The full account is on How we work.
That is exactly why this page exists. A house that only ever publishes itself is not a house. Your book would be written by you, carry your name, and remain yours. We would be the production around it. Books in English that take the launch package also get a place on our shelves.
We ask one thing in return for that plainness. If you used AI tools in writing your manuscript, say so when you submit. It is not a disqualification and we are in no position to make it one. We need an accurate picture of what we are being asked to produce, and the same honesty we are offering you here.
The house exists to be the thing we needed. Selective, honest, and genuinely on the author’s side.
That means being plain about where the programme stands today. It is new and you would be early to it. What we can offer is a production standard already proven across a full catalogue, a shelf that readers already browse, and a fixed price agreed before any work starts.
What we cannot offer yet is a list of authors who went before you.