The traditional houses are effectively closed. Self-publishing hands you a second full-time job you never trained for. Good books die in that gap every day. InkAtlas exists to close it.
We built a publishing house for our own books. More than two hundred of them, across ten shelves. Editing, covers, typesetting, audiobooks, distribution, marketing.
We are now opening that machine to independent authors, and we are starting from nobody. No list, no queue, no back catalogue of other people’s books. If you publish with us you will be among the first, and you should weigh that both ways.
We are not a vanity press. We will not publish 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 picks up a book carrying our seal 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.
A fixed price for the work, and none of your royalties. Editing, cover, typesetting, every format, metadata, publication. You pay for the production, once. What the book earns is yours, all of it, for as long as it earns.
| 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. |
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| Production | €1.800 | Editing, correction, cover, interiors for every format, metadata, and setup with the retailer. You publish on your own account. |
| Full imprint | €3.500 | All of the above, published by InkAtlas with its own ISBN, a place in this catalogue with its own page and shelf, a launch campaign, and a category review at thirty and ninety days. |
Both packages include the assessment. Prices are for manuscripts up to roughly 90,000 words. Where you publish, we take no share of your royalties, ever. Where we publish, under Full imprint, we carry the costs of the edition and keep its revenue.
Because saying no is built into the way you reach us, and because we publish the numbers whether or not they suit us.
Two stages, and the first one is free. You send a short enquiry and it costs you nothing. Only if the project looks like it could work do we offer a paid assessment. That is where most projects 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.
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. The manuscript is read by script before it is read by a person, for house style, repetition, sentence defects and note integrity. Editorial notes come back as a list of specific problems in specific places, not as a rewritten draft. The interior is built by script 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.
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.
Send three things. A paragraph on what your book argues and who it is for. A paragraph on why you are the person to write it. And a sample, anywhere from one chapter to the whole manuscript.
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.
Submissions open in September 2026. The house is not yet accepting enquiries.
Or write to if you would rather not use a form. Either way, expect a reply within three weeks.
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.
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 and the shelf around it, and nothing more.
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 publish, 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 an arrangement where we only earn if your book does.
What we cannot offer yet is a list of authors who went before you.
The reading room opens soon. When it does, you will get a short book to begin with, then one email a week about one book from the catalogue.
Sign-ups are opening soon. Please check back shortly.
More than two hundred nonfiction books across ten shelves, in ebook, paperback, hardcover and audio. On 1 October two more things open. The reading room, with a free book to begin with. And the house itself, to a small number of outside authors.